Answering a Question

What is a hero. When I first here the word hero, and I think I speak for a large majority of people when I say this, an image of one of Stan Lee's characters out of one of his comics come through my mind. For others it is someone In uniform like a police officer or firefighter. But why? Why is it that we have these in accurate profound images imbedid in our brains on what a hero is. Because of what society shows us on television and in books and comics even magazines. People have adapted to what society leads us to believe in even what a hero really is. It could be the most rediculouse conclusion in the world, but because society believes it is right, a larg majority will believe it is right. So whay is it that society leads us in these silly non-realistic directions. Why is it that we even allow society to lead is in the first place. I’l tell you why, because of fear of being singled out. Some people would rather jump on the band-wagon with everyone else instead of actually standing up for what they think is right just to avoid being the odd man out, or being thought of as “different.” Civilians spend their entire lives thinking that just because someone is a police officer or firefighter they are a hero. Your house could burn entirly to the ground before a firefighter actually puts out the fire and people will thank them. Thank them for what? Your house is now gone and your homeless, what did they do that was so special. I mean they could of put it out sooner and actually salvaged your home. But now you have no-where to go, your house is in ashes . Until your neighbore offers you and your famiy a place to stay until you find an apartment or rent a house. Now that guy is a hero. He just saved you and your family a lot of time and tears of being homeless and possibly staying in a shelter. Buy doing that he gave you comfort and stability which in the end makes your neihbore the real hero. I read an article in physcology today, and a Buddhist physician, Alex Lickerman, mentioned that one of his patience that he saw everyday made him fell better about him self. the man said and I quote "I saw a patient of mine recently whose appearance in my office always makes me smile. He's challenging—not because he's a difficult person (quite the opposite), but because he has so many serious medical problems about which I can do so little. Why, then, does seeing him so consistently lighten my mood? Because it reminds me that for all the terrible things that go on—the abuse, the discrimination, the injustice, the downright nastiness—good still exists in the world. Because, you see, he's a hero. What makes him a hero isn't the consistent good cheer with which he faces the discomfort his illnesses cause him on a daily basis. What makes him a hero is that fifteen years ago, before he got sick, he donated one of his kidneys to his brother who had AIDS". So why is it that people make these average men and women who are just doing their job out to be heros. Because of how society projects people in it determines the type of person that is based on societys view of them. So why does society have tese images of people. Why does society dictate what we think. Media is to blame. The media is a non-stop fad that effects our younger generations way of thinking. The media can display what ever nonscence it wants and because our younger geneto I'll take heed to all f it that's beng spure out at them. Why? Because they where broug up into it all. Because parents let televion raised their chilren. Granted; not every child is exposed to the toxins of the mdia and not every parent let's the media over run their child’s brain. But the majority does. You would think that parents would want to teach their children stronger aspect about life then what is seen on tv. But the reality is some are just austomed to letting their children learn on their own and giving the poor excuse of saying they have tolearn from their mistakes. But how are they supposed to learn, if you are letting the media teach them and you are not correcting hem. Why do parents let their children fall through the cracks in life and say its the childs fought and wander why they grow up with weak mentalitys of life and likenot knowing what a real hero is. Laziness is to blame. This laziness in parents to raise their children lead to their own lack of interest in their child. This is sometimes caused by either passed experience with the adults parents lacking intrest in them as a child or just by having children when they are not ready to raise kids. So if you have kids when you are not ready to have children, raising them is going to be difficult. And you are going to turn to other tactics of raising them which might seem easier. But just because they seem easier, does not mean that they are right for your kids. So now the media is raising your children instead of you and your kids do not have their own image of what a real hero really is. A hero is not someone who is mostly known in today’s time for a heroic act that they comitted and are now glorrified and thanked for it. But a real hero is someone who has an positive impact on a person’s life that will affect them every day for that for as long as that person lives and then afterwards ask for nothing in return, not even a thank you. That is a real hero. And there are people out there in the world who are having these imapacts on a persons life everyday.