Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Capes, Tights, and Underwear

In movies, books, legends, and even bedtime stories (pretty much everywhere,) heroes are normally portrayed as wearing underwear over tights with long capes with super powers to die for and a secret identity. Let's face it. There is no such thing as flying humans, lightening speed, mind readers, X-ray vision, or super strength, yet this world is not comepletely hero free. Heroes are just around every corner without tights, capes, and visible underwear. Superhuman powers aren't required to be a hero. Anyone who is kind, corageous, courteous, thoughtful, or selfless has the potential to be a hero. A hero could be someone who does something as simple as a firefighter getting a cat from a tree or something as big as a doctor performing life saving surgery on a patient. I think my brother is an everyday hero. He is an EMT so he works on an ambulance and rushes to save people everyday. I'm sure a lot of families are thankful because if it weren't for him, their loved one may have not survived. A hero is not really what the stories, legends, movies, and books symbolize it as. It is making a difference, no matter how small, that impacts a person's life.

2 comments:

  1. Very creative title i love it. i also have a close cousin who works for Acadian ambulances

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