Part 4: “In Search Of Heroes Book 1″ What is your definition of heroism?
Jeff Wright: A hero is one who has sacrificed his life to be used by God so that God can accomplish what God wants to accomplish in our life.
Michael Davis: I think it’s the way you act and the good things you do when you don’t expect any rewards or when people aren’t looking. I think a real hero is somebody who makes a decision to do something to help someone else just because they can.
This may be a little bit controversial thing to say but not too long ago there was a sport, I won’t even mention the sport because you’ll know what I’m talking about, but let’s just say it was a very dangerous sport and a very big, big star was killed doing this. All of these people were calling him a hero.
That’s not a hero. The guy got paid a lot of money to do what he loved to do. That’s not a hero. A hero is the fireman who goes into a burning building who makes not a whole lot of money as a fireman. You’ve got to have a certain kind of drive to do that.
A hero is the guy who takes care of his family. A hero is the man who won’t desert his girlfriend if she gets into trouble. A hero is a man who takes care of his son. I don’t know who my father is but he ain’t a hero.
He left me. He left my sister. My mom’s a hero. She never once thought of herself. She always took care of me and my sister first.
I hear a lot of this stuff about heroes, man, but a hero is not somebody who does something, dies and then is called a hero because he was really good at what he was doing. No, no, no. A hero is selfless.
The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
- Henry Ward Beecher