Not everyone can be a hero; yet just about everyone is a hero.

Being designated a hero can ruin someone, because of the “pedestal” problem. Thinking of someone as a hero can confuse the person who is calling another a hero because, that act can make a person forever feel inadequate and unworthy. Designating one a hero can also be a place to hide because you can keep telling yourself “see… THEY are a hero…I’m a nobody.” You may think this is a grim outlook. But it’s the opposite. If we stop looking for Heroes, we can be free to see that EVERYONE has something of note to be learned from. Even if the learning is about what NOT to do. I think of this as gathering pearls for my necklace of life. If I can gather one pearl from every encounter I have in life, I will be multitudinously blessed! No one Hero, no perfect source, just people being people … myself included.