BlogsTaste Of Melon - Aaron S. In today’s society one of the biggest reasons for stress is peer pressure and the need to be or feel accepted. many people will do stupid or dangerous things in order to fit in even me. One day when I was out biking with my friend he introduced me to his friend, this guy is really good and is on one of the best racing teams in Canada. There’s this jump that liam and I had built a while ago and it is a jump that I have become quite familiar with. Him and his friend start doing these insane tricks that I can’t do yet so they start telling me to do some of these tricks. I just want this new guy to like me so I say that I’m going to pull off a backflip. I have never even attempted one of these before and I’m already at the drop-in zone so I knew there was no turning back. I drop in and begin to move towards the jump, I know what I have to do but I just don’t know how to execute. I come up to the lip of the jump and lean back as hard and as far as I possibly can and to my surprise… I landed it. I threw my hands up in joy as my friends rushed down the hill to congratulate me. After I landed that jump liam’s friend asked me if I wanted to be on his team and that where my biking career took off. So if it wasn’t for that backflip I may not be at the level that I am today. Now that was my story but in my opinion I have a good idea on why we feel the need to do these things to impress our peers. I think that a lot of people these days want to feel like they are a part of something or that they are popular. Having more friends in my opinion really translates to having a better life. So I can totally see why we would want to impress others because having tons of friends is awesome! Mythology Blog By: Aaron Steingart
In my opinion there are a few qualities that a person must possess to be able to be called a hero. First off is that this person must be brave, someone who is not afraid to get the job done no matter how big the task. Another one is kindness, no hero is ever considered to be a bad person in general. So in order to be a hero the person must be kind and willing to help people for good not evil. These are characteristics of a hero because heroes have to be willing to fight any fight and to do it for good not evil. An example of a real life hero would be firefighters, These men and women risk their lives to save others. If jumping into a building that is on fire in order to save someone isn’t heroic then I don’t know what is. Another example of a hero is my friends mom, she works in the ER of the Grand River Hospital. She isn’t afraid of what she sees or what she may have to do to someone showing that she is brave, she also uses her skills to help people in need which is an act of kindness. So it just goes to show you that heroes are all around us protecting and saving lives and if you work hard enough, you too can be a hero. |