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What is a hero?
To me is it those who live their daily lives for the betterment of others. Surely some can be heroes by how they inspire us in sports, writing, art, and so on - and I applaud such people who use their skills to the max and accomplish that which many cannot, that which drives us to do and be better.
But so often we overlook (not intentionally) the other heroes among us that do so many wonderful things.
Maybe it is because they affect less people as a whole. And that is understandable that we as a society do not see those individuals as heroes.
But on a smaller level, the ones we deal with each day, I think we can draw strength from those around us - including ourselves.
The tired mom who changes the diapers and feeds their kids, the parent who goes to work tired and wore out to make money to pay the bills, the fire fighter who risks their life to save someone, the nurse who double checks the medical information on a patient and ensures things are right when they could have just shrugged it off after a bad day at home - and thus saved a life. The janitor who gave up seeing their kid in a school play to make sure they were at work on time so that their kid had food on the table.
Yes, there are some who achieve more and rise above it all in incredible circumstances that we revere. Kudos to them.
But to me, overall, it is the folks in daily life who overcome their problems that are the biggest heroes and the ones most unsung.
It is you. The mom, the dad, the brother, the friend, the one who stood up and made a difference in someone's life when they most needed it.
You were the ear someone talked to, you were the words of wisdom that pulled someone out of a situation, you were the one who posted something nice to someone who was down and made their day and kept them from falling off the edge.
You were the ones who did not let the hell in your life destroy the lives of others because you stood up in that storm and reached out to others in the same situation. You were the ones who did not judge a person based on their faults but on their potential as a fellow human. You were the ones who believed in second and more chances.
The hero is not just someone who did something great or broke a record - a hero is someone who did the right thing when it was needed even when they could have walked away and bettered themselves.
The Hero forgives the mistakes of others and moves on, instead of using the past of others to condemn them.
Heroes are not something rare, they are just something we often don't celebrate because we expect us all to be one.
chances are the person you are replying to is one, and they have done something wonderful for someone else when they most needed them.
My hope is that someday we start to look at the good in each other and what we do for one another, instead of trying always to find the bad in each other to make ourselves look better.
For when we start to look mainly for the bad in each other, we have lost. It is when we celebrate the good that we truly find that most of us are not really all that bad. Mislead maybe at times, wrong at times, screwed up at times - but spending most of our energies harping on the bad instead of the good will reap the investment of our time.
I believe. Not in our politicians and slogans, etc, but in you and me. That in the end, most of us are a good people who want the best for each other.
I believe that someday we will spend more time talking about the good in us than the bad.
That someday our news we see each day will be a celebration of what we do for one another instead of a parade of the bad.
And while I have no problem exposing the bad, I would rather we devote more time to showing the good we do for each other.
Today someone helped the homeless, today someone took in a foster child, today someone helped a friend in need.
Today a hero did something heroic when all they really had to do was live their own life and care only about themselves. But so many today did otherwise.
And it is a shame to me we did not hear about such acts of kindness.
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