This person’s heroism doesn’t have to take place everyday or even once a week. It is the effort of that person’s actions that counts. The willingness to help others who are in need of help is included in his actions. Where others would pass a person up in a bad situation a hero would stop to help. He would help a person in a desperate situation without asking too many questions. He has to be caring enough to help others without acting selfishly and make personal sacrifices in order to help others. To act in a manner that would benefit others and not benefit him intentionally. A hero will act out of the kindness of his heart and not out of greed. The willingness to help comes from one’s conscious and a deep gut feeling that comes from doing the right thing.

Courage is very important, without it a hero will not be able to use his willingness to help. Courage gives a person the strength to go through with an action to help others where others would run.

A hero has to take action knowing that the outcome may be unpleasant for him. Even though the outcome may be disastrous he will do it anyway. Deep down the hero knows the other person will gain from the help. He shut off everything that is taking place around him to get the job done, and he executes what he thinks is right without worrying what people say to him. Quick thinking is the ability to make a fast reasonable decision in a tight situation. A hero has to be able to think quickly to execute the willingness to help and use his courage usefully. If a hero is not able to make quick decisions, the situation may become more dramatic than it had originally been, or the victim may not need the attention that the hero would have once been able to provide. Quick thinking doesn’t allow the situation to get out of the hero’s hands or let it get too serious.

A hero has to be as physically strong as he is mentally strong. One needs to be prepared to do any physical work that is needed to help another person. A situation may call for a hero to carry a person very swiftly from danger. One might have to lift a victim’s body weight. If one doesn’t have the physical strength to do so, then the heroism will not be accomplished. A hero has to be mentally strong to withstand the stress when working under pressure. One can’t get too nervous under pressure or a terrible mistake may occur.

Most importantly, a hero must be a good role model for children as well as adults. A hero needs to live a reasonable life style, so children and adults have a guideline to follow. Children look up to a hero, while trying to imitate and portray themselves after him. If one is to pick a bad hero, they will try to imitate the same bad habits their hero possesses, even if they think it is wrong to do so.

A hero doesn’t have to wear a fancy suite with a cape and fly around the city fighting crime every day. My definition of a hero: a willingness to help people, courage, quick thinking and reacting, physically and mentally strong, and a good role model. A hero doesn’t have to lead a perfect life or be known as a hero to an entire city. He just has to be known as a hero to one person.