Why Everyone Needs a Hero

Author: Gio Pina

Everyone needs a hero for their own reasons. This project shows why having a hero is needed for everyone. Everyone faces their own challenges and while dealing with those challenges having a hero can help you with that challenge you're going through, with them inspiring you and helping you grow as an individual. Anyone can inspire you, friends and relatives, and  superheroes too. Anyone can be your hero.

Having a hero can be very common and it stems from being young and being inspired by someone who you wanted to be like or meet if that is an athlete, a super hero or someone from your family. A hero to me is someone who stands strong even when he’s up against the whole world, one who works hard and inspires many people to strive for greatness all in their own way. Some one who teaches right from wrong and sometimes a quote or something they said that sticks by you to this day. 

Let's start with my hero, Spiderman, a person who I've looked up to since I was very young. I loved the movies, all of them, and as I grew up it showed a story that really inspired me till this day. How he never gave up and always kept on pushing for the people he cared for to change the world little by little even if it makes the world a little better each day. He would do anything to save a life even risking his for people he didn't know, which showed his character. Turning the impossible possible all with determination and his hope that would never run out. I can go on and on about Spiderman but one of his key moments is the start of his superhero days when Uncle Ben died; he changed the moment Uncle Ben died. Peter Parker was mad at the man that killed Uncle Ben; he looked for him until he found him and then he was face to face with him but he did not kill him but he died by his own causes. But Peter later reminds himself of a quote that uncle Ben told him while being dropped off at a library “With great power comes great responsibility” which means anyone with significant ability, influence, or resources has a moral duty to use them for good, to help others, and to act ethically, rather than for selfish reasons, because their choices have a larger impact. Which changed Peter Parker into Spiderman; he started saving people for that situation that would never happen to someone else; the rest is history. Spiderman showed me that a little bit of hope can get you far and there is always someone out there that you have to keep going for or something. To never give up no matter who or what you're up against doesn't matter who you are, you can overcome anything if you put your mind to it and after all of that he is just like us, still human with human problems, who is not perfect, who shows that he is not perfect but still tries to be the best version of himself, not only for himself but for the people around him and the people he saves– everything for Uncle Ben.That’s my hero. Now I ask you who is your hero and why?