Are We All Heroes?

Eleana Victoria Sotelo Ortiz 3o Secundaria

When someone asks me the definition of a hero, I do not picture a strong man with an awesome cape and tons of superpowers; for me, a hero is the kind of person who is courageous enough to do something helpful for others even though he would not get anything back. Based on this, not everyone can be a hero, but they can come from everywhere. It is a fact that you would need certain features, yet nowadays, there is a vast variety in everyday heroes so that anyone who supports the others can be considered one.

James C. Harrison is one of the kindest and interesting persons I have ever researched about. He is a blood donor who has saved more than two million babies and pregnant women without expecting anything in return because of his blood which includes strong and strange RhD antibodies. He is so heroic that he did not stop doing it even when he knew it was risky; donors are supposed to donate until they are sixty-five while Harrison did it at his eighty-one years old. Definitely, not everyone has gold blood, but the importance of his story remains on his determination to save human lives even before he was conscious of the awesomeness of his blood. Another remarkable person is Valery Legasov. He was the living representation of cleverness when he evacuated the Prípiat population after the reactor explosion in Chernobyl. As he discovered the issue with the nuclear reactor, he tried to mitigate the consequences of the detonation and exposed the negligence of the government. He saved an immeasurable amount of lives, not only around the Soviet Union, but all over Europe.

With these two examples, we can conclude there is not only one type of everyday hero. The diversity of everyday heroes stay on the variety of their actions, yet, they all have something in common: their unstoppable determination to help. Remember that you can be one of them, you just have to bring out all your qualities, and try to do something for a cause that you believe in.