Hero

I've long believed that introverts like me often gravitate to secret passageway allowing us to leave a party early. If we can't find the secret tunnel, even retreating to a bathroom can do wonders.

On another note, I recently learned about another type of humble partygoers who are worth learning from. William McRaven, a Four-Star Admiral at the United States Navy, once attended a private dinner hosted by a famed exercise cardiologist. He happend to meet his dinner companion with the name Charlie. He didn't catch Charlie's last name and just knew he was in the Air Force before retirement.

"What did you fly?" William asked.

"Oh, a little bit of this and a little bit of that."

"A man of many talents, huh?"

"Or a guy who couldn't keep a job." The old man laughed.

Over the course of the evening, the old man Charlie didn't talk much about himself and was much more interested in William. 

William found Charlie pleasant. Little did he know about Charlie's humility until the end of the dinner. After saying bye to Charlie, he was told the full name of his dinner companion: Charlie Duke, the youngest man ever to walk on the moon. William was dumbfounded. To his embarrassment, William didn't realise he had been having an entire dinner conversation with the national hero astronaut who had landed in the Descartes Highlands, the highest point on the moon.   

This is indeed a prime example of hero, and a humble hero.