Informal Theme 4.3

With great power, comes great responsibility.

I won't argue that sacrifices are part of man's existential dilemma. It is so true that we need to sacrifice our time, possessions, dreams, or whatever to gain something that we think is worth sacrificing. But when our responsibilities comes at stake, life would take its toll on us and we should find a way, even if it means a lot, to solve it more likely when you know there'll be many lives who'd be in jeopardy.

Sacrifices are inevitable. We cannot escape the fate of losing something or someone because that is human nature and sometimes it is about how we lost them that we get the motivation to continue on doing the right things. As to what happened to Aeneas and Hector, they both chose to do what they thought is right (which I think is also the right thing to do), to fulfill their tasks as heroes. Even if Andromache and Creusa pleaded for them to stay, they didn't because they are no ordinary people that can live a simple and merry life. They were those who have power, and with power comes great responsibility. It is their gift, the curse.

With their selfless heroic sense, they both chose not stay but to carry on because they have lives to save which is far more important than their love affairs. And of course it was hard for them because both are dear to their hearts but they need to pick their side and they chose what is best for many lives than them. Hector along with his son died but Andromache survived and Creusa was the one who died and Aeneas did survived.

This question was asked to Igi when we had the room-to-room campaign for the SSG elections and I guess it somewhat relates:
If the ship is sinking and your parents don't know how to swim and they were far from each other and you can just save one person, who will you save?
Far-fetched answer: I will fix the ship so I can both save them. (Which is basically not true given that you only have like a few minutes to save one of them and the other will drown because he doesn't know how to swim; and am I even a carpenter or a seaman that can fix a sinking ship? Just kidding).
Igi's answer: I will save my mom because she was the one who suffered and carried me for 9 months and I guess that's the least way I can pay her back.
Titanic's answer when sinking is inevitable: Save the women and children.
My answer: Just like Igi’s, I will save one of them but by which I can’t still decide who. I will take the chance of losing the other neither losing them both without choosing whoever I would want to save.