What is a hero

          When I was growing up when I heard the word hero I thought of Superman and Batman like most kids do. Now as I got older I developed a new understanding of what the word hero meant. I think as we have developed as a world the word has taken on a different meaning as well. In Greek literature a hero was someone that was remarkably brave and could defeat any challenge that was put in their path. People told these stories to get their minds off of what was really going on in their lives. It was also to give people hope in their lives.

          While Super heroes are not really the do stand for something and have a meaning in everyone lives. For example, Captain America was created during World War II. Steve Rodgers (Captain Americas alias) was originally this wimpy kid that had the heart of a lion and wanted nothing more then to kill some Nazis. He was turned down time after time because of his physical appearance. Then after some science experiments and some strange syringes full of who knows what he was given the physical status of the perfect solider. It showed that as long as you have the heart you can do anything in your life. Captain America also gave the American people hope during the War. He was running around killin Nazis and kicking Hitlers teeth in on a weekly basis. Notice how in a lot of stories the hero is almost always an underdogs? Luke, Frodo, Harry all modern day heroes all underdogs. Is that because we love an underdog story? Or is it because we all want to be those heroes, when we read Lord of the Rings we like to picture ourselves in that and put their journeys into our own lives. Super Hero creator and legend Stan Lee said "While no one is expected to leap tall buildings in a signal bound, our aspiring heroes will be tested on their courage, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion, and resourcefulness- the stuff of all true Super Heroes." I agree with Mr. Lee that those are the quality that real life heroes posses.

          Some people will tell you that there is a hero in all of us. I agree and disagree with that statement. I believe that there is a potential hero in all of us but you have to make the decision to bring out that hero. One of my all time favorite quotes comes from a famous line from Spider-Man "With great power comes great responsibility." Basically if you have the ability to make a difference you also have the duty too. Now this an imperfect world so obviously people are greedy and do not all in their power to help others. Now while it may not be doing a lot even something as simple as donating to charity can make you a hero to someone. You are using your power to help others, you are being selfless to help other people. Now I think in someways even this has been perverted in out society. I think if famous people really wanted to help just to help they would do it completely anonymously. Now there money and services still help but they are doing it for their own glory and not to just help people. 

          There are still heroes in todays world though so don't fear. First lets start with our Military. They constantly make personal sacrifices to help millions of people they will never meet in their entire lives. These people deserve our upmost respect all of the time they are true heroes. Then we have our public safety personnel. These are police offices, firefighters. These people go out every day risking their lives for people they don't know. They are willing to make the greatest sacrifice to ensure our safety. Now there are also other types of heroes to many to go over in this already extremely long post. 

        Just leave with these thoughts. While we may all not have the ability to sling webs or have super strength we all do have the ability and responsibility to help people. Even the smallest act of kindness can change someones life. So make sure you remember this next time you see someone that needs help or if you feel a calling for something bigger then that follow it if that is what you really want. 

Always love and happy thoughts,

Jacob Clyde

Once again

Damn I suck at keeping up with these, but I'm going to really going to try! So I was struggling on coming up with a topic but I think I have one for you guys. We are going to discuss is the importance on communication in life. The dictionary says the communication is the imparting or exchanging of information or news. This is important in so many aspects of everyone lives. Communication is key in every relationship that you will ever be in. So lets start with just the every day communication. It is super important in your life to try an develop these skills in life. It will help in both social and professional aspects of life. You have to be able to talk to make friends. I feel like we all learned this at a young age. If you are just that kid that sits in the corner by themselves it is much more difficult to make friends. As far as the professional part goes being able to talk and communicate will greatly help your chances to first get the job and then to excel in any area of work. Just the ability to uphold a casual conversation can lead to amazing things in life. So what I am saying is don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and just talk to people. It is simply talking people have been doing it forever, you can do it I believe in you!!! Now lets move onto communication in relationships. Now I have stated in previous blogs I am no relationship expert, these are just my opinions. Now I think that communication is maybe number one thing you need in a relationship. I have learned that if you do not express how you feel then nothing will ever work out. When two people are a relationship they must be able to express their feelings to one another. Im sure everyone has had an experienced a time when someone has come to them with a issue where they like someone but do not want to tell them or they are angry at their boyfriend for girlfriend and you simply tell them to talk to the other person about it. It seems so simple right? Now I understand I have been there, the last thing you want to do is tell this person how you are feeling but that is what you need to do! Sometimes you just need to grow up. I am tired of couples just talking behind one anthers back it never ends well... Sometimes I feel like no one gets that! It is simple just talk to each other! I know it can be scary, but it needs to be done. 

Okay that is all for now. If anyone has a topic for next week I would love it!!!!!

Love and happy thoughts

Jacob Clyde Batton

It has been awhile

So I did like one of these and stopped. So now I am going to start doing them again to kind of vent and talk about my thoughts of a lot of things.
So the subject I would like to touch on today is girls... So here is a little background on all of my girlfriends. One... and that was hardly a relationship because alls we ever did was fight but thats whatever. I am not going to sit here and act like I know everything about girls because I don't, in fact I know almost nothing. Here is what I do know. I am a "guy friend" basically meaning girls don't want to date me but they want to be friends. That is cool for the most part I love and am thankful for the friends that I have that are girls, but... it also gets really annoying. For example I will not name one instance because it happens all the time. I get the same thing for a lot of girls. I tell them how I feel about them and the response is almost always the same. "Look I don't think we should date because you are such a great friend and I would hate to mess that up." So in basic terms them are telling me no, but in what they think is a nice way. Okay done with that, moving on. Lets talk about love. I think love is a concept that our  society has pretty much completely messed up. Like there are 7th graders out there talking about how much they love there boyfriend/girlfriend. NEWS FLASH: you don't!or even the high schoolers or college kids who have been dating someone for an month I bet you money that you do not love them. Now don't get me wrong I have seen true love in high school relationships so it can happen, but it is rare. I have never told a girl that I loved her but I truly do think I have and still do love this girl. She is perfect... She basically gave me the friend speech about a year or two ago but guess what, this time it did not work. I still think about her a lot write songs about her but you see the problem is that that she is also in love. With someone else. Now I do not think this is a bad thing. He is a good guy and they are great together so I just have to let it be. I have moved on in a sense. I have started to find other girls that I like and want to be with which is good. Sometimes you even find a great girl that you really like and the biggest shocker is that she even likes you back, but after think and praying long and hard about it you realize that you were never going to marry that girl so you have to move on from that as well. I am not saying that any of this is easy. In fact quit the opposite, letting someone that you care about go is one of the hardest things to do. In life you must be resilient you have to take life as it comes no if ands or buts about it. because in the end everything will work out, it always does. Now I leave you all with hopes of a great day!
Love and happy thoughts
Jacob Clyde