What is a hero?

What is a hero?
I'm not talking about cartoons and stuff
Like..when someone calls a best friend/friend a hero
What is a hero to you?

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Someone who believes in themselves and does what they think is right.

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Someone who is always there when you need them or someone who helps without anything expected in return.

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Someone that is not afraid what others think
Someone that sticks up/ helps others when no one else will
Someone that is afraid, but faces their fears, for true courage is not, not being afraid, but rather doing what you are afraid of (for someone elses benefit)
Someone that saves other peoples' lives such as, doctors, fiirefighters, soldiers, etc...

I like sports, but I think that people who think of sports players as heros just because they are good at sports need to open their eyes...

yeah thats true
I love sports and I think people are good...just not my hero
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I am my hero. Why? The reason is following:

I am not a guy who has no minds of his own.

I am not a guy who lives in real world without dreams.

I am not a simple guy as my friends often say.

I graduated from a university in July, 2007. But I think I hadn't learnt any useful knowledge in classroom.

I am a guy who has to work in a pharmaceutical company but doesn't like his job at all.

I am a guy who loves travel, he will travel all over the world.

I am a guy who can say to himself 'cowboy, you are really something!' when he is old.

I am a guy who has a lot of dreams but have no ability to let all of them come true, but he is still trying his best to let most of them come true.

I am a guy who doesn't like to follow others' steps, he is living following his deep heart.

I am a guy whose biggest wish is helping those people who need help.

I am a guy who is trying his best to live a happy life without regret.

I am a guy whose life deems to be end in 2057 when he is 75 years old.

@ hanxianheng:

Because; you are like everyone else in the world. But still unique. And that's why you're a hero. Because you can hate your job, because you can love things. EtcEtc(sorry for the lame reply everyone I just woke up and couldn't word it properly. xD)

if you see a car on fire on the side of the freeway and someone inside and can get out what would you do ? I would stop call 911 and then run to the car and get the driver and any one els out of the car then I would try to pull them alway from the car and wait for emergency responeder to get their. now that what I call a hero in real life think of the firefighters and police on 9/11