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As we all hear the word "hero" used from time to time, have you ever asked yourself the question, "What is a hero, anyway?" Heroes are people who transform compassion which is a personal virtue into heroic action. In doing so, they put their best selves forward in service to humanity. A hero is as an individual or a network of people that take action on behalf of others in need, or in defense of integrity or a moral cause. We all want to make that difference in that moment of time that will dramatically impact the situation and even foster change. Keep someone safe. Keep others safe. Stand up for what is right and just. We all simply desire the ability and the power to act freely and without restraint to make this kind of difference.

However,when I think of my “heroic deeds” I'm at a blank. I have no words for a story in which I have saved people from airplane, or giving mouth to mouth to a toddler who was about to drown in a pool, I have done nothing that is amazing in that sort of sense of a hero. Everyday though, I do a random act of kindness. Opening doors for strangers, or helping load groceries into a car, even saying hello, or smiling at someone who is having a bad day. Its so simple, and yet so beautiful.

My dance teacher is who inspired me to commit to doing random acts of kindess. She found a website http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/ its a foundation thats goal is to insprire people to practice kindess and pass it on to others. They have stories, goals, even classes on different aspects of kindness. She encouraged us to look into it after hearing a story about a young girl who was taking a walk and was struggling with feeling unoticed and invisible, she said to herself that she was going to commit suicide that day, unless she got a sign that she mattered, not long after that a woman came up to her and asked how she was doing, that ended up being the only piece of hope that she had, to stick around.

We started doing it random acts of