The most difficult thing to be in life is somebody's hero. I don't mean the silly, cartoon superheroes that we see in movies. I mean a real hero; to have someone looking up to you, knowing that you have to protect them from the world. It becomes your responsibility to shelter them from the world and yet prepare them for a time when you will no longer be able to protect them.
It is your duty to save them from their deepest fears. Be it a truly harsh reality or a fantasy of fear. You, and only you, are their shield from the world, irrelevant of your life; of your fears. When your world is crashing around you, but you get called out, it becomes your duty to worry about a problem far bigger than yourself.
You cannot cry. You cannot fall. You cannot be caught bleeding.
Our heroes are generally unseen, unheard and unloved. They are ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives and yet they have a duty to their believers to protect them. To be an unsung hero, is to dedicate your entire being to a cause with no hope for recognition, no applause. And these are the people who keep our world at peace.
It’s not the people who expect recognition. It is not those who seek fame. The true heroes are those who do what they need to protect those around them on a day to day basis. They fight for a cause far bigger than themselves.
They are just people!
And yet, if our heroes ever do fail us, it is not forgotten. It is not quietly swept under a rug. Don’t heroes also have the right to bleed? To dream???
To Die?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRz4FY0ZcwI&ob=av2n
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