A Hero Is A Sandwich
30 Days Of Truth, Day 14: A Hero That Has Let You Down
I’ve never believed in heroes.
I refuse to look up and pretend that there’s no dark side of a person.
I can’t think of anyone I want to be more like.
Other than that woman in my head that looks, breathes and lives like me. Only a little better.
I’ve never let another person soar so high in my esteem that when they fall neither I, nor they, can ever recover.
It’s a form of cruelty, I think, to revere someone so much that your reverence becomes a cage for them.
I don’t why, but I’ve always been this way.
I like what I see. I like your hair, your smile, your heart, and your spirit.
If I like it enough, I’ll make it my own.
But a hero? No.
I only see you. And I only see me.
What I see is good.
But.
I’ve never believed much in heroes.
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In the Bronx, a Hero is a sandwich! but if I were to use that term in it’s Heroic Meaning; then Almost Everyone I work with ARE Heros! That’s not to say they don’t have a Down Side(s) but Heros, just the Same.
Heroes are people to me doing what it takes to raise healthy, sound children. Everyday people (isn’t this a commercial?!) -seriously!
But yeah – like you, no one gets placed on a platform or anything.
I wish I had this outlook. Honestly, it never dawned on me to just refuse to have heroes. Seems I am gonna have to work on seeing things this way. Makes so much sense!
Did you ever know that you’re my hero? And everything I wish I could be…
You know? I don’t think I have heroes. I have people I admire and look up to, like my grandmother and my mother… and certain people in certain professions, and a few friends, but no heroes. People who have done amazing things in their lives, like the firefighters in 9/11, people who have endured a lot and have survived, perhaps I consider these types of people hereos.
It is not the abilities you have that make you who you are rather it is the choices you make. -JKRowling.
Besides heroes are too over-rated…
Hey. Me too.
I can’t think of a single hero I have either. I admire qualities in people, but heroes? No.
Unless it’s the Greatest American Hero. He was AWESOME.
Well, I guess I’m burning the “Faiqa is my hero” T-shirts I made for everyone.
I have tons of heroes and lots and lots of people I’d like to be more like. I can’t wrap my head around not – no matter how logical it might sound on paper.