Heroes…
So, what makes a person a hero? I have been pondering this for a while, since watching the CNN Heroes awards in Paris. They awarded lots of hero tags to people like Christopher Reeve for efforts to research stem cell stuff, another little boy for his work to get more people to register on a bone marrow donor database….I think what they did was helpful but at the same time, their efforts were still motivated by self gain …I mean, their efforts would help themselves too.
There was another guy who won a tag - he had jumped down on a railway track, as a train approached to save a guy who had suffered an epileptic fit and fallen onto the track. He couldn’t move the affected man so rolled him over and lay on top of him whilst the train passed over them….now, that is what I call a hero..someone who risked their life for the sake of another.
Another person I call a hero is a lady I saw in the queue at the station in Paris…she was about 80 + years old…and held the hand of a 50 + woman, who was affected with Downs Syndrome. Seeing the love and tender care this older woman gave to the younger really touched me and I found tears in my eyes…here was a woman who really needed to be cared for herself, looking after another and it was SO obvious that it was not a chore to her..in my eyes, people like that, are heroes…..
