YOU might become a hero.
YOU might become a hero.
Yes, YOU!
A hero. . . . . . . ascends from what?
Do you know?
Where do heros come from?
"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. " Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
Yep. Don't look for powerful, rich, or famous people to be heros. Nope. There just isn't much historic evidence of that happening. . . In fact, rich, powerful, and famous people seem much more likely to instead become villans, and to end up saying stuff like this: "WHY is it with my powers and the strength of my great army you cannot so much as find one - little - child?"
Queen Bavmorda, from the movie WILLOW (1988) by Lucasfilm/ Imagine Entertainment/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Some say a hero is only as good as their villain is evil. . . But maybe, they became a hero - because they were good first. . .
"There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!” ― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
"Hard times don't create heroes.
It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed." -- Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley, American Author and Politician.
“The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.” ― Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV
"You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do." ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King
This blog started for me with the Thoreau quote, then the heroic Willow movie, and ended when I ran across the last quote about getting the quest you can do, and not the one you wanted. . .
Oh bother. . .
I think we always want the easy quests. And the ones we can do - we call 'impossible.'
Remember that.
Because you may have to become a hero someday.
Really.
Joseph was sold into slavery but ended up saving millions from famine. Moses had it all but lost everything and was a criminal who fled Egypt to work as a common laborer. King David was once the youngest son who was left out in the field to tend the sheep and who didn't even have his own set of armor. Most of the Apostles were just common local fishermen. Jesus was born in an an animal shelter to immigrant parents who were forced to return and pay taxes.
Get the picture? That's where heros come from. YOU could be a hero.
(C) RLMcCormick