Be Your Hero

We've all heard the saying, "Don't be a hero". Usually, we hear these words in the movies when a bank has been held hostage by gun slinging thieves. One guy tries to be the hero that saves everybody from an inevitable fate only to fail at the last moment. I think many of us try to be someones hero, if not, all of us. We have that tendency to protect someone from a poor life decision, or from a harmful and possibly deadly outcome. While religions try to save others from Hell, others are saving people from themselves. There's at least one person in each of our lives that draws curiosity and fascination, due to how the person lives their life, whether homeless or a life of debauchery. Though we strive to save the one's we love, in the end, we discover they are not the ones that need salvation. If there is one person we are all trying to save, then who would be saving us? In the midst of saving others, we tend to not realize that it is the savior that needs to be saved. Like any superhero comic book, the heroic figure always saves the beautiful damsel in distress, but it always ends the same; the damsel in distress saves the superhero. Superman came to save the world, but his world became Lois Lane. Though he is the man of steel, Lois reminds Superman that he is only one man. Some of us have heard the song "ordinary" by Train, from the film Spider-Man 2. The song describes a hero who's anything but ordinary, but in the bridge of the song, Pat (lead singer) sings, "I think I've been trying to save the world for you/ you been trying to save me too/ we could just stay in and save each other". Though the world needs a hero, we all need to be our own hero so we can make our world a better place. In the words of U2, "I can't change the world, but I can change the world within me".