Some say heroes are born, some say heroes
are made. I say heroes are people who made the world better despite their
upbringing, for it's one thing to make the world better, but an added
ingredient to make it better when you were faced with a difficult childhood.
Parents who were dominated as children,
who were made to feel guilty about everything, who cowered in fear of their
parents' judgment every time they spoke, who were constantly scolded over
trivial matters, who were beaten over the slightest transgressions, who were
treated unfairly and made to feel like a servant, who loved deeply and didn't
seem to have it reciprocated; who were abandoned (partially), adopted
(partially), abandoned again, yet somehow found the strength to face the
challenge of becoming an adult and molded themselves into great persons; the
parents who faced such adversity with an air of defiance once their own
children were born, to care for them in all the ways they were deprived themselves,
to unlearn the dangerous lessons taught by irresponsible figureheads, to break
the cycles of abuse and neglect rippling through the generations, to unhinge
themselves from the fury that burned through the faceless identities, the
multiple clashes of personalities, the sheer will that made them shout
"No!", who vowed with every might of their disinherited breath to
never repeat those same traumas on someone else; they are the true heroes of
society.
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