Is a hero someone who
commits heroic acts or someone whose behavior and personality fit our idea of
what a hero is like? People rarely realize that we are all heroes without a
cape. Animals too are heroes. A hero isn’t someone who commits heroic acts, but
someone or something who can help benefit in some way.
We like to portray
firefighters as heroes, simply because they risk their lives to save others. Though,
have you thought about it like this? A regular person who lives in a society
where very few people know him as a bother, can risk his life to save a life
just like a firefighter can. In the film “Hero,” Bernie LaPlante, a criminal
who’s afraid of incarceration, randomly rescued survivors of a plane crash. Although,
he was betrayed by a passenger who he had given his shoe to just to help out,
his heroic choice wasn’t even recognized until later on. He didn’t wake up that
morning thinking he ware going to save lives, nor did he think he was leaving
the house to meet his near death.
Your dog, with the
help of your next door neighbor can also be a hero. I have once seen a clip on
ABC News where a dog, Danny, saved his owner’s life. Bethe Bennett had fell in
her home, Friday, on the floor and broke her femur. She was aware that she was
not expecting any company until Tuesday so she had lie on the floor in pain,
with the thought that she was going to die, suddenly going into shock. Danny,
who is a trained service dog and used to care for Bethe’s mom who is now
deceased, went along to help her. After she asked him to get the phone, he ran
back and forth, jumping until he finally knocked the phone down and pushed it
towards her with his nose. She realized soon after that the paramedics would
not be able to get into a locked house so she yelled out “Paper!” Alarming Danny
to bring her over sheets of papers in which her neighbors’ number was on one of
them, she got in contact with one who used a hidden spare key to unlock the
door right when the paramedics arrived. Shortly realizing after that her life
had been saved by he own dog.
Cops who are considered heroes are the main people who take lives away
every day. Who’s to say that a
baby can’t save a life? I’ve read in an article, “Magic cells: babies who save
lives,” by Joanna Moorhead that a new born baby, Princess Gracie, is now a life
saver. With stem cells containing a cure for other children or adults diagnosed
with leukemia or any other blood disease. Mother and father, Charlotte Cribben
and Andre Kum, had no idea that they were bringing a little hero into the
world.
Someone whose behavior and
personality that fit our idea of what a hero is like is considered a hero. Everyday
our lives are saved by regular people, animals, even babies, and we don’t even
realize it. A life isn’t always necessarily by someone who commits heroic acts.
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