Who is your Hero?

[emptywallet]

I was sitting here looking at my new scar on my knee from my ACL reconstruction (month post op this friday!!) and I began thinking alot about what I've been doing lately, which is really just staying home and doing my exercises and watching TV, and stretching my knee. I can't believe its already June. It seems like just yesterday I was walking into the weight room to do some deads and really get after it. Now its a struggle just to walk all day long. I ignore it, put it to the back of my mind and try and think about when it will be better, but honestly I don't even remember what it is like to run, or skip, or cut up in the yard anymore. I was doing my exercises today, and my mother happened to walk in when I was doing them, and she saw me grunting on some lunges and said "You know, I really admire you". I was kinda stunned. All I could think about was "Admire me?!? All I've been is negative the whole time, your the positive one!!" Of course I didnt say that, I just said thanks and kept on going. Then I began to really think about it. Through all this, she's been so positive, when even I thought everything was going to be so horrible, she just kept her spirits up and tried to help me. There was a point when the insurance wasn't going to pay for any of my surgeries on my knee or anything, the total was going to be somewhere around 40-50k and she even said everything would still be fine, we would be ok, even through that. My father has been the same way, through all the horrible stuff thats happened over the past year, he's kept on going and kept on trying. My mother and father are my hero's. No matter what I've done, all the trouble I've caused throughout my childhood and even now that I'm older, they have always loved me, not just because they are my parents and thats what parents do, but because they generally love who I am and know whats inside of me. They inspire me everyday to keep on going. What about you? Who helps you out? Who do you look up to?

 

[BodybuildingUniverse]

Good post. I think you will find - as you become a parent yourself - that they are worthy of hero status. Honor them...

 

[emptywallet]

Good post. I think you will find - as you become a parent yourself - that they are worthy of hero status. Honor them...

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I hate to say it, but there were some thing they were right about, however I still strongly disagree with other things that have been drilled at me.

 

[blinddeafmute]

Good reply heavywear.

My parents have been there for me thru thick and thin. I have learned probably within the last year or so that I am my own hero. It probably has to do with going thru a divorce and losing the 1 person that was supposed to support me. Right now, I do things for myself and nobody else. I reach goals for me. I strive to be the best for me. I live for me.

The only other factor in this whole thing is my two boys. They are in a way my little heros, but I would hope that I am more of a hero to them.

 

[st8k_lover]

As a father, you are a hero to your children almost automatically. It is a gift, to be held in such esteem by someone, especially when they are your children. It is also a responsibility, one that some people forsake by straying from what is right and wholesome. My worst fear in life would be that I did something that would cause my children to become ashamed of me, to lose that title of "Hero"
I would say for most of us, our first true hero was Mom and Dad.