"It's not who you are inside, it's what you do that defines who you are. "

I grew up on fantasy adventure stories. Redwall was always one of my favorites, but I also liked stories about King Arthur or Robin Hood or Narnia. Anything full of sword fights and sinister villians, action and magic, trickery and saviors, damsels in distress and their brave knights. All of these stories has a hero. Martin the Warrior from Redwall, King Arthur and Robin from their respective stories, Aslan and the children from Narnia, so on and so forth.
But what really is a hero?
All I know for sure is that I want to be one. When I was little I wanted to be a brave sword fighter, a upright mercenary, a mysterious do-gooder. Although that still definitely appeals to me, I want to be a hero in the world I live in right now. I try, but I don't know how most of the time. You hear stories about brave individuals, such as the firemen who helped save people in 9/11 at the cost of their own lives, or the pilot that landed the plane on the river, saving all the passengers. But most of the time those opportunities don't present themselves to people. I want to be a hero every day of my life. I want to make a difference to people around me, I want to be their hero.
~Not Caroline