What makes a person a Hero? One thing is certain, by choice they do something, often as other's chose to do little if anything. The they's and the others sometimes go in the opposite direction as few or maybe only one person made a conscious self sacrificial choice to let them that can, go forward in life. Putting one's personal life, in a unknown or into a unpredictable outcome by choice, so another person(s) can benefit, that's just a hero getting started. A hero needs to do a great act, that is noticed by extraordinary accomplishments, that will be ultimately meassured by the enduring history of a surviving action. Really hard to define when it gets down to making a hero.
We all have them, make them and they are always among us. They are real people and fictitious at times only to those that have a need to believe in someone greater or "bigger" than ones own life. They are men, women of all shapes and colors of skin, no border defines a hero for sure. A hero very seldom wants or intended to become one, many never even know they became one. Some will say a unselfish fool, the smarter was the living and faster fleeing cowards who talk about the greatness of that once upon a time person "what a fool".
Your or my hero, may not even be a hero to some, may not even be popular or apparent to all for years to come. Far as I know, there is no self appointed hero, there is not many who want, need or willing to apply that label to ones self. Requirements to be a hero as hard to define as the hero we come to admire. There are many that deserve the recognition of a hero, that recognition just went unobserved. We all make a hero, as they chose to do a unselfish act for the betterment of many, without questioning their own fate. Some heroes will survive to become awarded great praise and deserved privileged prosperity, most do not. Heroes sometimes pay a price for the title if they live, suffering with crippling capacity or mental anguish. Most die a sudden death at a hellish place, a place most will chose to forget.
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