he·ro –noun, plural -roes; for 5 also -ros.
1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
Don't you just get so annoyed when you find out who some people's heros are?
Sometimes, I'd just like to sit their "hero" down on a stool, shine a light into who they really are and allow the person to view the real person their "idolizing as their hero". I think a lot of people's opinions would change.
I say that because I know first hand about a certain case. Myspace has this nifty little section called "Heros". People fill this in with who they think are their heros. I have a friend, whom I've known since I was about 4 and she was 1. We haven't kept in touch too much over the years but we share something, rather someone who, frankly doesn't live up to par when it comes to being someone's hero.
This friend named one of my aunts as her hero. My aunt has been good to this friend. They even tried to adopt her when she was 1 before the people who adopted her finally did so. Thus, why she is close with my family.
The issue I have with her naming my aunt as her hero is that my aunt has a reputation. Ah, once ruined, it's hard to mend. She likes to waggle her tongue, put her nose in dirt, and step all over people. She masks this side of herself by what the world calls chrisitianity. Oh my, the problems she has caused in our family, alone not to mention with people that I know and am friends with still. She's left a stink in their noses. I can't begin to imagine what stink God smells of her.
The irony of it all is that one person, one of my friends is friends with my friend who calls my aunt her hero. (did you get that?) You'd think that Friend-A would know what my aunt did to Friend-B and cause her not to think she's her hero anymore but you'd be wrong.
I'm praying that she finds a new hero. I'm also praying that her calling my aunt her hero isn't for the sake of following in that path but hopefully, more than anything else, just for show since my cousin (my aunt's daughter) is also on her friend's list. Ah, that was a confusing thing.
Yes, I am aware that people change and God can do anything! Don't think I'm not praying for my aunt either.
"We're not keeping secrets, we're telling them; we're not hiding things, we're bringing them out into the open." Mark 4:22
Do you really know who your heros are?? I know some of you do for a fact know who your heros are and who they REALLY are. ;-) At least, I've hopefully given you something to think about then.
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