One of the popular questions in our culture is asking someone who their hero is. Who inspired you as a youngster? Who inspires you now? Sometimes it’s a “what”, not a “who”. But the point is that we all need something or someone to inspire us, to draw out our greatness from within. The question implies that we want to achieve great feats, and that certain individuals, causes, and circumstances help drive us towards accomplishing these lofty endeavors. But what if we’ve been looking in all the wrong places for our heroes? What if your primary hero is none other than yourself? After all, who knows better than you, what moves you and what you can achieve?
Be a hero in your own life. There’s no greater role model to look up to, than the better, nobler person that you desire to become. He, she, is your role model. You wish more than anything else, to become him, her. Not anyone or anything else, but him/her. YOU.
You hold a beautiful image of that person within you. It is a clear, sublime, unblemished image etched on your soul- an image of you!
Everyday you look at that image. Everyday you are called to live out that image. Everyday you must take steps to reflect the majesty that resides within, striving to be revealed. You have it in your power to be who your soul knows that you can be, must be, if your life is to be lived in truth.
Don’t forget the greatness that you see within. Don’t forget the nobility, the beauty, and excellence that you glimpsed from the deep, rich, unique well of your soul. When you do this, when you live this authentically, giving voice to the uncommon being within, and bringing to life the great vision imagined by your soul, then you’re truly living. Then you are a hero. A superhero- yours!
In a world where many try their hardest to copy others and to blend in, it is the greatest act of heroism to be true to oneself, to become in this world, what one already is, within. To bring eternity into time, to make immortality mortal, to be one with yourself, in spirit and in flesh. It isn’t creating anything new, it is simply the excavating and unveiling of who you truly were all along. Your soul knew this incontrovertible truth. That’s why it was restless and unfulfilled, until you revealed the real you.
To live authentically is to be a hero everyday, shinning your light to the fullest, everyday. To allow your soul to sing its song in the purest, most beautiful way. That’s life indeed!
Remember…
Remember you. Be true to you. Become you.
Come home.
Come to yourself today. You are the hero that you seek, the hero that you’ve always known that you could be.
Come home! To you!