We don't need to be the heroes of the world or of a greater paradigm than the one we live. But we need to be the heroes of at least our lives. We have to be the example that others see and then want to emulate. The reason why is that our species needs to find its purpose beyond that of just surviving and all that selfishness that goes with it. We are not the lower animals scrambling for our place in the sun anymore. We are the giants who have slowly risen from that scrambling scenario to one where we control not only our own destiny but the destiny of the lower animals. So as we go all of life as we know it goes. There is no other higher real life being that exists in our environment than us.
So how we choose to live our lives is our choice regardless of how we were brought up or how we were indoctrinated into any specific thought patterns. Our freedom to know is what sets us apart. We are not inhibited by an inability to attain knowledge unless we allow ourselves to be. This is where we begin to establish our trust in our own good and honorable natures. Sure we have negative impulses to satisfy wants and lusts but they are only impulses and are not ordered as who we are. We all share in the struggle to lift our better natures above the lesser worse natures we all have to battle. But in the battling we find victory and from victory we inculcate that victorious nature to a behavior within our core that is comfortable and a source of a humble pride.
Then we live like the masters of what is right and good as a nature that is both foundational and correct for our species to exemplify. By doing like they say in several self help programs, "do the next right thing" and after a bit the succession becomes so natural that doing the next right thing is all we know how to do. Being a hero is simple in the concept of standing and acting on behalf of not only ourselves to protect what is great and good but also standing for others when they can barely crawl to protect what is better and best about themselves. All of this doing good is part of us feeling good and when we all feel good many great things can happen for all of us together.
So how we choose to live our lives is our choice regardless of how we were brought up or how we were indoctrinated into any specific thought patterns. Our freedom to know is what sets us apart. We are not inhibited by an inability to attain knowledge unless we allow ourselves to be. This is where we begin to establish our trust in our own good and honorable natures. Sure we have negative impulses to satisfy wants and lusts but they are only impulses and are not ordered as who we are. We all share in the struggle to lift our better natures above the lesser worse natures we all have to battle. But in the battling we find victory and from victory we inculcate that victorious nature to a behavior within our core that is comfortable and a source of a humble pride.
Then we live like the masters of what is right and good as a nature that is both foundational and correct for our species to exemplify. By doing like they say in several self help programs, "do the next right thing" and after a bit the succession becomes so natural that doing the next right thing is all we know how to do. Being a hero is simple in the concept of standing and acting on behalf of not only ourselves to protect what is great and good but also standing for others when they can barely crawl to protect what is better and best about themselves. All of this doing good is part of us feeling good and when we all feel good many great things can happen for all of us together.
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