Hero. Who?

A thought for everyone.

In those apocalypse movies when all the ‘best and most important’ are given space in some safety bunkers, what would happen after they got out of the bunkers?

A hint to what I’m driving at – The best usually include bankers and politicians but not waste management people or builders. The most important may include master chefs but are not likely to include butchers, farmers or foragers.

What do we think the chances are for these people coming out into a pristine wilderness or chaotic landscape?

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My thoughts have been whirling around of late, trying to work out where I stand on so many issues and in so many aspects of life and I’ve ended up coming to the conclusion that I’m probably asking myself the wrong questions based on assumptions that I don’t agree with.
The biggest assumption I’m looking at right now is who are heroes, who are role models and who are important.

There’s a call/need for more black role models, for more female role models, for more good role models..
Maybe it’s also ( or even, more so ) a case of there being a need for seeing the value in more people and understanding that being famous or such shouldn’t be the same as being important or worthy of respect.
Of course there’s no chance of a farmer making the news for doing their job or a bin person being the lead in an action movie, but their powers are hidden. As long as they do their jobs no one notices them but when they stop… well, the world goes to pot.

Being important means making a difference to people’s lives and those who seem the smallest through one lens are often the ones silently making a difference in so many lives.

So, maybe you’re the hero., you might not even realise it.