Who are your heroes?

Who are your heroes? January 19, 2017

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Trump was asked that question, and he answered oddly:  “I don’t like heroes, I don’t like the concept of heroes.”  He then rambles on about his father in a very Trumpian sort of way so it’s a mystery what he meant by not liking heroes.  Did he mean that he objects to the idea that we should hold some people up as role models?  Is he thinking of kids treating a sports star as a “hero”?  The notion of putting someone up on a pedestal?

But at the same time — well, to be honest, I’ve certainly read about plenty of people who have done extraordinary things.  They’ve created, they’ve innovated, they’ve saved lives at the expense of their own, they’ve stood up for justice.  Heck, in the Catholic tradition they’re called saints.  But do I live my life with reference to these people?  Do I place any one person as my “hero” and try to model my life after theirs, of even have one or a small number of people that I call to mind?  No, not really.

Do you?  What would you answer, if asked that question?  Or would you use the fall-back answer that so many people give, of “my mother/father is my hero”?

 

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