HEROES
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HEROES
What should a hero be? Joseph Campbell says he can be of a thousand faces. A hero can be pure of heart, pure of spirit, a man of suffering, a man of forgiveness, a man of wildness tamed. Or a woman of all the above, since heroes are not just of one gender. There are all different kinds of heroes. Some show feats of strength. Some show feats of mind and mental acuity. Some stumble their way into situations backward. Some try too hard. Some don’t try enough. Some who want to be heroes just can’t be, some who think they can’t be turn out to be the best of them. All heroes have doubts and failures because all heroes are human. It could be a random teenage girl with a calling to lead the armies of France, or Davids tossing stones at Goliaths, or a paralyzed Ilya of Murom who drinks the water of life to gain his strength back to defeat the evil Tartars threatening his homeland. Throughout all of recorded and unrecorded time one person has always had the capacity to make history turn, though most people may not believe that. All heroes must begin their journey with the first page. This is already the fourth.
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