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To Be A Hero


To be a hero is to help someone in need. To be a hero is to stand up for what you believe and behave not as we want but as we ought. To be a hero is to believe in God and to serve rather than be served.

When helping some one in need you must help them, not do what you think will help, but ask them, and humble yourself before them. For it is not the physical help that is the most important but the act of offering the deed and struggling through whatever mental and social barriers there might be preventing you from performing it. So, for example; there is a new student who was ill-at-ease because of other students comments on the excellent work that he turned in. The aforementioned student had been assigned a large project and is having trouble carrying it out of class, 1. you could pretend you don't see and do nothing, or 2. you can swallow the fact that you're are going to be the laughing stock of your classmates and just help him. Sure the project could be as heavy as a load of bricks, but you fought the battle inside your head as you chose to really help someone; that battle is you becoming a hero, like a badge of courage stamped or branded onto your heart.

To stand up for your beliefs is easy for some and hard for others, for me its hard. I want to go with the flow. Thanks to my mother I have tools to suppress my desires and behave as I ought and not how I want. For example, if I believe in God will I have a lesser grade on this essay, will people brush it aside because I am being put in a box of what Christians do and what Christians don't do. These are the problems I faced when deciding to be heroic or not.

To serve rather than be served is to humble yourself in front of the world and be their slave rather than to seek a way for them to serve you. For example,my mother is always serving, the only time she stops her work is when she is sick or in the delivery room. She gave up her career to have five healthy children. She adds to her already high workload by homeschooling us. Every day she teaches a variety of different courses in all different levels, everything that we take is chosen to help us with our weak points or to cultivate certain talents. That takes up almost all of her day leaving little or no time for household duties. She even sacrifices sleep for us. That is a concrete example of an all-giving servant.

To me a hero is helpful, strong when faced with society problems, humble and God-fearing, and and filled with a desire to serve mankind.



By D. Martens