"Heroes of everyday life" have their own curious memorial in London. You find it in Postman's Park and it's a patchwork of majolica tiles inscribed with the names of "those who have heroically lost their lives trying to save another".The "Memorial to heroic self sacrifice" was erected in 1900 by the Victorian painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts. Among the macabre incriptions are "Drowned in attempting to save his brother after he himself had just been rescued", "Saved a lunatic woman from suicide but was himself run over by the train" or the one for a pantomime artist that reads: "Died of terrible injuries received when attempting in her inflammable dress to extinguish the flames which had enveloped her companion" (see above).
By the way, yesterday night I took the online Big Personality Test. It's related to the excellent documentary Child of Our Time where the BBC follows 25 children from across the UK who where born in 2000 over a time span of 25 years.
The test takes 20 minutes only and reveals the five traits openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. As a good German, I scored highest in conscientiousness (What a word! Probably the longest I learned so far). In the video presentation of my results I was told I were "every employer's dream". Hope it's not a nightmare.
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