Heroes

What makes ordinary people turn into heroes?

What was on the thoughts of those policemen and firemen when they rush into the Twins Towers after the first plane crash into it? What makes them rush in to save others risking their own lives?

What about those doctors and nurses who were fighting against SARS? What was on their mind that make them continue to do what they are good at, even though they know they are at a risk of contacting SARS and lose their lives?

What makes ordinary people turn into heroes?

Reading the recent article about those doctors and nurses at Tan Tock Seng Hospital during the SARS period last year gives me hope for human kind. Perhaps, just perhaps, humans are not selfish assholes after all.