The word hero is being diluted by inappropriate usage. Art Green sets the definition straight...
What is a hero? What action does one take to become a hero? Who are these heroes that you hear everyone talk about, but never see? The word hero is passed around too much these days. A hero is not a football player that scores the game-winning touchdown or the goaltender who saves his team from a loss. A hero is usually an ordinary person that did extraordinary things. A true hero is really never a hero at all; at least not in their own mind.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - ALLEN RUSSELL
I TOO OFTEN HERE CHILDREN AND TEEN AGERS REFER TO SPORTS FIGURES AS THEIR HEROES IN MY ESTIMATION
THEY ARE GIFTED INDIVIDUALS WHO CAM THROW, SHOOT, KICK, ETC. VARIOUS SPORTS ITEMS BETTER THAN OTHERS, AND ARE FAR FROM BEING HEROES. MILITARY PEOPLE WHO COMMITT THEIR LIVES DAILY FOR THEIR COUNTRY MIGHT BETTER BE CONSIDERED THEIR HEROES, AND THEY DO NOT MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR FOR BEING HEROES.
27 - katie haynes
uhhh? whats a hero?
28 - lola martines
hey a hero is someone is willing to help you even if you wont say thank you or pay them.
29 - Shukri
Polices are heroes and mothers, because a mom will risk her life for her child!!!!!!!
30 - Kat
A hero is anyone whos priority is help others and offer their hand to those who need a any time.
My boyfriend is a hero too lolz
31 - rtyrety
A hero is a person with good gualities
32 - fdtg
u are4 not a hero loser
33 - fdtg
tara is hot
34 - helen 4rm nigeria
a hero is someone that is ready to lay down his life for another person,so that ,that person will live to be a happy n comfortale humanbeing,thankyou n i love you all.
35 - akabunwa helen 4rm nigeria
a hero is an extraordinary human that is ready to lay down his life for another person,so that,that person will be a comfortable humanbeing n live a normal life,thank you, n, i love you all.
36 - nick
i belive people who want to be heroes are not destind to become zeroes, i truly wished to be a hero and i got that wish some may not acknoladge it but other heroes do and are comforted by the fact they helped save someone, because in my mind everyone, deserves a second chance, i know that may be going a little far but whos to say a murderer who saved someones life is not a hero? i do not mean to brag or gloat but i am proud to be called a hero because 1 and 1 half years ago i was walking to my friends house to get stoned and drunk(both verybad things and i am in no way a good person in anyway shape or form)
i saw a little girl about 12 to 15 yrs old listening to her head phones not payin attention to anyone, i didnt realize she was crossing the train tracks untill i heard the horn blow, as soon as i heard that horn blow everything went blank............. a woman who saw both of us walking said that right before the horn blew i looked up and started running, she thought i was going to try to commit suicide but i guess i pushed the girl out of the way, and took the hit, when i finally realized what i was doing i was hung up on a fence with half of my leg ripped off and my hands severly injured, i managed to pull my slef off of the fence some how and i looked up and through every passing car i could see the little girl...........she was not moving, then as the train stopped i managed to see her move an are and then get up, she suffered a broken arm but was able to walk away from the accident, which i could not ask for anything else. the point im trying to make is who is anyone to say they would not risk there lives for anyone else, is there life not as important in there mind as it is in yours? i belive that all life must be preserved at any cost, which might be why i acted but know this i did not think of what i was doing it was like i was watching myself from afar, but i knew what was happening. i hope everyone is safe for the new year and amanda q watch out tomorrow, something bad might happen
37 - devin
that was a great thing you wroe about heros
38 - aliyah
a hero is some one who is helpful, indepent, and very much aleader
39 - Roger Nowosielski
I don't think this discussion is going anywhere. Besides, we live in an age of anti-heroes.
Perhaps another topic would be more fruitful.
40 - Cindy
A hero is anyone who can put up with most of this stuff, without climbing out on a ledge.
41 - Roger Nowosielski
A sane person, in other words.
42 - Cindy
Rephrase...
A hero is anyone who can put up with most of this stuff, (yet sees its implications) but refrains from climbing out on a ledge.
43 - Cindy
Roger,
Yes, the only truly sane people...in my limited, biased estimation.
44 - Roger Nowosielski
Still - an antithesis to "The Myth of Sisyphus" in Camus. He/she is a sufferer, not a true believer, like Prometheus perhaps.
45 - Cindy
Yeah, well, having your liver eaten is six of one and half a dozen of the other against having to roll a boulder uphill eternally. lol
Which maybe means, whichever you see yourself as...if you can refrain from heading for the ledge.
46 - Roger Nowosielski
Orpheus and Eurydice is my idea of heaven. A denizen of no place, a citizen of all.
47 - Cindy
Roger,
You were married?
48 - Roger Nowosielski
thrice
49 - Cindy
I sent you a message.
50 - Roger Nowosielski
I got it. Food for thought.
51 - Cindy
You can reply. I take back that not talking privately thing.
You know, I am so changeable due to my genetic make-up. Prerogatives and all... :-)
52 - Roger Nowosielski
I don't worry about small shit.
53 - Cindy
k
54 - anyonmous i dont no how to spell it
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55 - me and u do it tonight???
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56 - Hope and Change?
It looks like this thread has turned into one of those "Get Laid Tonight" message boards...
57 - Christopher Rose
Is that what drew you here?
58 - vic
well even though you probable wont care what i say i think a hero is a person who is willing to risk his/her life for someone else knowing that that wont get paid or you wont say thank you. my hero is
PRESIDENT BARACK O'BAMA
59 - tom tom
FYI vic, obama's getting paid.
60 - MULL
HHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....my hero is Q-DaNCE..ANYONE HEARD OF THAT ???? best music in the WORLD buddies..
HS4L brothers.
61 - Zodia
i think a hero is a person willing to help or care for someone and eats mud pies and shits them selves
62 - Zodia
i think a hero is a person willing to help or care for someone and eats mud pies and shits them selves
63 - ashantae
is a hero some body who saves the world
64 - nn
I don't agree with the comment about soldiers risking their lives for us being heroes. just because you sign on the dotted line doesn't mean that you're a hero. that's just another reason the word is thrown around all too often.
i know plenty of people that signed up for the military because its their only option. they failed at school so they gave up and enlisted. Sure they can be a hero if the opportunity arises, but until that happens they should not be deemed a hero.
65 - REMF(MCH)
nn;
At least those who sign on the dotted line (regardless of their motives) have done more than those who have not (choosing instead to let someone else fight their battles), eg; Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Sean Hannity, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Bennett, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Armey, et al.
66 - nn
What i was saying is that someone doing absolutely nothing heroic (enlisting) does not deserve to be called a hero. It lessens the value of the word.
67 - Anony Moose
What makes signing up to kill people heroic? Sounds like something a dupe would do.
68 - wenda
yo was up man his yo girl wenda..well i think that i love heroes cause they save people and they risks their lives so yeah....
69 - brenda
yo wat it do... so well i think that i love my self...you know what im sayin...jajaja
so yeah see my homegirl wenda is being right about what she saying...so yeah go and be a mothe son of a bieatch heroe.....
70 - me
im doing heros in class and i think a hero is someone that risks thier own life to protect someone or something else. even if they dont succeed, they tried and even if the other person survives and they die, that shows that a hero is truly selfless
71 - Andy
Spiderman is my favorite hero because
he was a player..............
72 - Andey
Dwayne wade is a hero
because he's amazing
73 - Sky
I have to alk about a hero in class and I think I will just die because how can we say if someone is a hero? All the people i know when asked who their hero is will say an author or artist or somebody who inspires them. But if that is wrong, which it probably is, why are we all wrong? Is it the media? Is it society? And if a hero is humble and does not beleive that they are a hero, then what do they do if someone tells them that they are one? Is one trait of a hero to be stubborn? Actually, a lot of prople would have us believe that. Does a hero even need particular traits? I feel sick when I think of heroes, which is really quite sad because how shallow must I be?
And that is why I am so emo, listening to Coldplay and being mad.
74 - abc
the word "Hero" is overused in medias and most don't even know what a true is. for example, in the news, this boy was drowning in a lake when his father had saved him. he was called a "hero".......wtf???? isn't that what a father's job to do????
ASK YOURSELF WHAT A HERO REALLY IS!!!!
75 - hope
A selfless hero, anyone can be a hero in someone eyes. A hero puts others before themselves. They may end up giving up their life or just stand up for a kid being bullied. People battling cancer and sickness can also be heros. look at Terry Fox he is a hero in many people eyes. He took a bad situation and turned it around. He put the needs of 100s of people in front of his own. I some ways the wod hero has been used too much but everyone in some way is a hero to someone. Role-models can also be heros or just some one you loook up to. I want to ask you this who are your heros and what makes them a hero to you?