Heros. There are songs dedicated to them. Quite a few songs
actually. Everyone loves a hero.
But I strongly suspect how we define a hero varies from person
to person.
Sometimes a hero is the boy who tells his friends to stop
picking on his next door neighbor just because he has a lisp. Or maybe it’s the
young man who asks the girl who’s clinging to the shadows if she’d like to
dance even though her dress isn’t this year’s fashion. Then again it might be
the man who helps repair the roof on his elderly aunt’s roof so it doesn’t leak
anymore.
In fiction, particularly a romance, a hero is often created with
a much stronger story line. They are men who rescue people or animals from
raging fires, doctors who save lives every day or scientists who discover cures
to horrific diseases that might affect thousands. Or they’re the characters who
were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the heroine or a city of
people by disabling a ticking bomb or stepping in front of a bullet.
