Unidentified Heroes

They are not famous, their names and services are lost to history

Yogi Mulyana
8 min readAug 31, 2024
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I’m actually a bit surprised to make the title of this article. How can there be an unknown hero? His name is also a hero, so he must be known by many people. The title or appendage of hero is actually present because he did something that resulted in the presence of heroic value on him. But there are also heroes who get the title of hero precisely because they don’t do anything.

For example, if in the past God had not only created the first male human, but two male humans, namely Adam and Asep. Then it is very possible that the one who will be recorded as a hero in the history of humanity is Asep, because he did not eat the khuldi fruit.

While Adam was busy scrutinizing until he was tempted to eat the khuldi fruit, Asep was sleeping snoring in his room. It was precisely because of his sleep that allowed Asep to stay in heaven, and was enough to make him a hero. Meanwhile, Adam had to leave heaven.

If we were asked to choose, who would we choose to be, Adam’s descendants or Asep’s? I think there are many who would choose to be Asep’s descendants. Rather than being the descendants of Adam who caused many wars, corruption, misappropriation, bloodshed, etc. It’s better to be Asep’s offspring, just sleep in heaven, when you wake…

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Yogi Mulyana

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