Hero

For some reason, I didn't have a hero when I grew up. I always had an idol - a different teacher at different times, but not a hero. I guess because I agree with this statement: "Idol means uncritical worship, like a teen idol," says Peter Gibbon, author of "A Call to Heroism: Renewing America's Vision of Greatness". "It's unthinking admiration. Whereas 'hero' comes to us from the Greek word meaning half-god and half-human." (from this site http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/MYSA081407_1P_heroes_1f04eb9_html.html)

I never found a half-god and half-man person who is noted by his/her nobility, great achievement, courage and greatness of soul to be my hero. Now in my mid-30s, after thinking over and over the definition of hero, I have discovered that my husband is my hero. He shows a character of a great hero through his daily activities of a regular life. Everything he does is for other people, either his family or his friends. I haven't seen anything he has done for himself. Other people are always first before himself. He does not get mad at people for whatever they did. He always has an understanding of why people acted a certain way. He looks at those acts with a much more understanding and forgiving mind. At home, he can do whatever other people do not like to do. He truly follows the statement "treat other as you would like to be treated." He never compares to see who does more work. He is a great person but he never thinks of himself as a good person. He just thinks he's lucky and blessed.

I'm not good at words so I can't fully describe all the things he does. But to me, little things he does in normal life makes him larger than life. In the discovery of the old word but new meaning, I have found my hero.