What's in a Hero?

I've Never Actually Thought of This...

And it did catch my eye when we were doing our prompts, but I didn't think I could articulate the words very well.

PROMPT: Our society uses the word hero in many different ways.

How do you define hero, and who is a hero in your life?

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Being my hero. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc. You know all of them. THEY'RE HEROS! Who are our real heroes though? Who are those people you don't see on the cover of a comic book every now and then? Who are the real heroes? Who are the hidden heroes?

I think personally, anybody can be a hero! We're all heroes! When I think of a hero, I think of someone who saves others and maybe that's just from comic books, but that's what I think. I think this is someone I can look up to, someone who has saved me! That's a hero! For many, their hero can be someone as simple as their best friend to someone who really does save the day everyday like a fireman. Admiration towards this person for their heroic actions is key to who your hero is. Why do you look up to this person? How did they save you? What would have happened if you hadn't been saved? And it's not just near death kind of saving, it's mental saving, emotional saving, saving someone from themselves. I mean there are so many ways you can save someone, but we always think a hero is someone who is great at saving people physically. "He saved me from dying! He's my hero!" We can look at this as someone who almost died of natural causes or someone who so mentally unstable they wanted to die and someone helped them through it. That is why heroes can be very different.

Every hero comes in different shapes/sizes, you know the common saying. Even I am a hero. You guys reading this are heroes. We're all heroes. We may not be aware of it, but we are all heroes.

Who is a hero in my life? Perhaps, everyone I've ever crossed paths with! Considering a lot of those people haven't affected my life, that's highly unlikely, but maybe they saved me from feeling alone in this void. That's what they did. Someone who I utterly hate is my hero. Yes, it's possible! Even if you hate them, imagine where all this hate comes from. Why exactly do you hate them? To me, I imagine, that if someone I hated was my hero, the only thing they'd have saved me from was from hating myself. Hating someone else allows you to love yourself. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY THINK THEY'RE BETTER THAN YOU!!!! Haha, but that example was sort of wacky I think. Let me tell you who I think my real hero is.

I think my hero is my mom. She's always been there for me and has always looked out for me in my 15 years of life. Who else is going to do that for you? Who else wants to do that for you? She has helped me through so many things and given me very good advice and she supports my decisions. She does things others can't do and I talk to her very easily and that's why she's my hero. She saved me from feeling very alone in this world. With her, I never feel too bad. So a hero doesn't have to always save you physically, because in this case my mom saved me emotionally, and I am forever grateful to her for that.

So, who's your hero?