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Heroes Are Made Not Born

Heroes are made, not born. An ordinary person can be a hero through courageous acts that help others in times of danger or difficulty. While heroes are often depicted as having special powers, the true heroes are regular people who possess good qualities like generosity and kindness. These qualities come from experiencing both good and bad situations in life. Nobody is born perfect or a hero - it is how one responds to challenges and uses their experiences to help others that makes them heroic. Through facing hardships and addressing their own shortcomings, regular people have the ability to be heroes in their own way and make the world better.

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Heroes Are Made Not Born

Heroes are made, not born. An ordinary person can be a hero through courageous acts that help others in times of danger or difficulty. While heroes are often depicted as having special powers, the true heroes are regular people who possess good qualities like generosity and kindness. These qualities come from experiencing both good and bad situations in life. Nobody is born perfect or a hero - it is how one responds to challenges and uses their experiences to help others that makes them heroic. Through facing hardships and addressing their own shortcomings, regular people have the ability to be heroes in their own way and make the world better.

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Heroes are made not born

”What is a hero? Is a hero someone who flies around wearing a red


cape and blue tights? Is a hero someone in comic books who always fights
the bad guys? Or is a hero an ordinary person who just does what they can
to help others. Well in my opinion a hero is anyone who can show courage
when faced with a problem. A hero is a person who is able to help another
in various ways. A person can become a hero by saving someone who is in
danger. A hero can help others and give them strength to go on through
life’s difficulties. A hero can be someone who gave up his or her life so
another could live. A hero can be anyone; they can be the girl next door or
the strange man across the street. But how do these “heroes” become this
way are they born with their so called powers or are they made into heroes
by those surrounding them?

There are many heroes, great leaders, and all around great people
that we can think of ,but what makes a person a true hero? There are
common theme that show that a true hero is one that is very generous,
helpful, kind, loving, etc. But these characteristics are what we all posses,
We are always good the same way we can have our bad days. How we
identify people as heroes, is by how they possess all the qualities that we
associate as only good people or the strong contain. Which is why some
heroes are so relatable. And what makes them a hero is that in their worst
moment with all of these negative qualities, they still attempt to do what is
right for our community.

Andrew Solomon did a Ted talk on “How the worst moments in our
lives make us who we are” and he said that “You need to take the traumas
and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the
worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self
in response to things that hurt.” We learn from experience. We learn what
it means kind, treating people the way we want to be treated, because we
know what it feels when people are mean, We know what it means to be
greedy because we have experienced some form of generosity. That’s just
who we are, and how we make our world better.
So if we know all these characteristics from experiencing the good
and bad, and acting on them ourselves, but we define most heroes as people
who only do good things, then can someone really identify to be truly a
perfect hero? Where does our true selves fit on that black and white scale
when we are born as grey areas. Nobody is born a hero. when you look at a
newborn baby you don't know if they will be future killer, or savior. And
that is what makes it so incredible, and a little bit scary at the same time. A
nobody has the ability to be the hero as much as the hero can have the
ability to be a nobody. Heroes, the ones that we call the best of the best of
society don't always dress in a cape with white light surrounding them.
They are, most of the time, regular normal looking people. Which makes it
hard distinguish which is which, and explains why the heroes can be
mistaken as the nobodies. Going back to Andrew Solomon’s ted talk, he
said Identity involves entering a community to draw strength from that
community, and to give strength there too. It involves substituting "and" for
"but" -- not "I am here but I have cancer," but rather, "I have cancer and I
am here." From that, I can see that we can all be heroes, because we all
have have the ability to address the shortcomings that makes us who we
are, and still do good. And if we all realize that, I truly believe we can
make the world better in our own hero ways. Thank you.

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