WHO IS YOUR HERO? written by Sam

Who is your hero? And don't say "my dad" or the guy who donated a billion dollars to cancer research. BORING! I mean a real hero. I think Dwight Shrute defined it best when he said, "A hero kills people, people that wish him harm. A hero is part human and part supernatural. A hero is born out of childhood trauma, or out a disaster, that must be avenged. . . We all have a hero in our hearts" THAT is the kind of hero I'm talking about.

My older brothers were big

into comic books and anything super hero-ish or fantastical. Thus, following their footsteps, I'm a sucker for those things as well. I still have my oldest brother's old comic books, I loved the idea of having powers that made one unique and superior and glorious. For that reason I have always been fascinated in flying. Thus my senior year I saved up and went sky diving, it was extremely awesome even though I forgot to breathe. Yes, I know, I FORGOT to breathe, at least I think that is what happened. I was too excited to breathe.

My stomach dropped when the side door of the plane slid open 11,000 feet up. Until that moment I wasn't nervous. then sitting with my legs dangling in the wind just behind the wing. A thrust with both legs and I was flying.

I was trained prior to jumping that to be able to breathe with so much wind I had to do so through my teeth, otherwise it would be like drinking from a fire hose. I remember inhaling through my teeth right after jumping from the plane.(you just tried to breathe in through your teeth didn't you! sucker!) However. . . I think that was the only breath I took until I hit the ground some 2-4 minutes later.

Upon landing, my instructor (who all too close to me, being strapped to my back like a backpack. . . a spooning, overweight guy shaped backpack) unhooked me and told me to stand up, as I did I passed out and fell over.

It was amazing.

A few years later while I was serving a LDS mission in Connecticut I began to worry that my imagination was dying since it really wasn't being exercised as I was in my strict routine and studying habits as a missionary. So I invented a hero. Obviously the hero was me and I had only one power, I could fly.

~side not~ I love superman but does anyone else find it lame that he has EVERY super power available. Pretty selfish if you ask me.

As I pondered what my hero could do with merely one super power I realized I couldn't crash through walls or even crash for that matter,

I finally figured out how I could fight crime. My hero would be equipped with a lasso, yes, a lasso. Then I would just

sneakily drop a lasso over the bandit and use my flying power to hoist him high in the air and if he tried anything sneaky I'd just drop him.

In the end my hero was equipped in football pads and equipped with a lasso. Pretty lame sounding but practical. That is my hero. The glorious Lasso Sam, or Cowboy Awesome, no the Peace Partner, no no the Feather Duster. . . Ok my hero has flaws, his biggest being that he is nameless. I must find a decent name, and I am up for suggestions.

Who is your hero?