Who is your hero?
A lot can be said about us individually and collectively by who we admire. Just now I feel I am running low on heroes. I suppose I would consider Gandhi a hero. Maybe Martin Luther King.
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hopefully; myself one day
My father was my hero before he passed away from cancer. He was the most generous person that I’ve ever known.
Right now, my 80 year old neighbor. She lives alone, has no family here, is active at church, sings with a citywide choral society, ushers for the arts center, docents at the art museum, and volunteers with the League of Women Voters. And still finds time to come over and visit with my pets on a regular basis.
I’ve awarded provisional hero status to Chesley B. Sullenberger III
“provisional” only because I don’t know much about him beyond this one heroic deed
Right now, my boyfriend who came over last night and made me homemade chicken soup because I am sick. And let me lay about in bed while he generally pampered me without a thought to the fact that his immune system sucks and as a result of it, he will most likely end up sick.
I needed that pampering.
The rest of the time it is Neil Gaiman, who manages fame with grace while maintaining strong family bonds and being an upstanding human being.
@TheFonz_is i love Heroes, much Lurve.
Id have to say my father, even though i resent him in some ways.
My high school teacher.. who gave up his dream to care for his dying wife.
I don’t have one.
I admire certain things about numerous people (some I know, some famous, some dead, some fictitious). I try to emulate these qualities I find admirable through the “me” filter. It’s an amalgam, really.
My Mother is my Hero. She has done a lot for me and my sister and also sacrificed a lot. She has shown me that there is good in this world and that money cannot buy happiness or family. There is no greater love than the LOVE my Mother has for us and the LOVE that we have for my Mother.
I also consider my mother to be my greatest hero. She taught me the values of compassion and selflessness in an incompassionate and selfish world, and I could never repay that to her.
For business, I admire Steve Jobs – although perhaps hero is too strong a word because I disagree with his management style and some of his personal choices. I do believe he is probably the greatest business leader of our time though and will ultimately be acknowledged as such.
I consider Ghandi a hero, of course, who couldn’t? But I have a hard time identifying with his complete and utterly selfless sacrifices. So I aspire to be likehim, but am aware that I fall well short of the mark (but will continue to strive).
More realistically, I consider Richard Brandson to be a hero. I don’t consider him to be dramatically different than any other individual but he has excelled where he was given the opportunities and chose to help others when he was able. I think he’s done a great deal of good and I believe that any of us could emulate that ourselves and for showing us that path in ourselves I think he is deserving of being called a hero.
Dr Ida McMichael. Start at the bottom third of the page where the paragraph begins “Rearing nine of your own…”
When my bio-family couldn’t be arsed to treat me like I mattered, Dr McMichael opened her heart and home to me when I moved to NYC – I was already 24, and she had a number of little ones she was taking care of. She asked me call her “Mom,” and I have to this day, though she died in 2000.
My spouse who, by marrying me, is living a life that is not quite what either of us expected. I am a better person when we are together.
A fellow by the name of Xavier Magma. Also Alice Paul.
My mom. Did a lot with a little… raised 2 kids on her own… fought cancer twice and won… went through 2 divorces and came out stronger… and having gone through med school herself was my rock while i went through it… she is without a doubt my hero.
I have no heroes so to speak, but there are many people I admire. Not celebrities, but real people, people who would never think of themselves as heroes, and that give of themselves because that is all they know. People like my wife, who works with low functioning retarded adults, and she is not only well respected by her peers, but loved on an almost universal level by the people whose lives she has touched over the past two decades. To see these people react to her, and the way she reacts to them is unbelievable, and the most touching thing I know. If she isn’t a hero, then I have no idea what the definition of hero is.
i have a lot of heroes. i consider anyone that i really strongly admire to be my hero, especially if they’ve done something, directly or not, to improve my life. a lot of them are musicians. my chemical romance is probably the truest hero i have, as they helped me more than most people would understand for a few years, just by making music.
conor oberst is definitely another.
jemina pearl is one, but not in a deep sense. just in that i think she is so badass haha.
Chico Mendes, who was assassinated because he was trying to save the Amazonian rain forest.
Wow, Chico was born on my mother’s birthday and he died on mine. :-(
@jesienne I love Kafka too.
My other heroes are:
Charlie Chaplin
Ozu Yasujiro
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