This is Holding out for a hero, a old classic by Bonnie Tyler. According to YouTube its from 1985.
Source: youtu.be/7f_HsjpSVaI
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How many would have died if there were no everyday heroes?
I am wondering how many people or animals would have been injured or dead if there were no everyday heroes risking their lives to save another human beeing or animal? Imagine a world were we didn´t care for strangers. Imagine a world were nobody would answer your cry for help. I think that would make a thriller on the movies. A world of indifference. What a strange world. Imagine if people only cared for people they knew and none cared for strangers?
I am thankful for the people that still care about life and don´t care if they know them or not in order to help out. In todays Aftonbladet.se we can read about a boy that saved a five year old girls life. She was about to be strangled by a stranger in the subway. He thought someone else was going to help the girl. The mother screamed for help. He realized he had to act and grabbed the girl and pulled her away. First he thought she was dead, but then she woke up. She was alive. Isak had saved her life, according to the article in Aftonbladet.se. The person doing it was mentally ill and was sentenced to mental care, according to the article.
I am thankful for people that do something. I think to many don´t do anything and seldome help. There is a sort of indifference in the Swedish society. I am scared for the day when there is no longer anyone that dares to help in a crowd of people. The people that act are so few. Today a man at the train pulled his arm into me, even though I moved 10cm to let him sit down. I told him to not hit me. He started arguing with me. I said he was pushing me out from my seat. He was a very grompy old man. Nobody helped me. He was cruel in his language and had a terrible attitude. I guess he has a shitty life, he indeed behaved that way. I didn´t like that man, so I said to him he was a grumpy old man. I called him “gubbe”. He called me stuff too. I thought of him as very annoying and not a nice person. I wanted to tell him he was a ashole and that he could go and die so we didn´t have to put out with his bad behavior, but I didn´t. But I thought it. I behaved normal. He didn´t. He was person that hit people in the arm to get his way, even if they helped him. Not a really nice person.
Read about Isak here:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/svenskahjaltar/article15765745.ab (20121113)
The man that chose to be a thief and not a hero got jailtime and is exiled from Sweden
The man that didn´t help the man that was drunk and fell down from the plattform to the train tracks at a Subway station in Stockholm got jail time. Instead of helping the man that fell down he decided to rob the man. He didn´t call for help or inform the station guard that a man lay on the tracks. This man chose to be a thief instead of a hero. Everything was filmed by the Subway survaillance cameras. The man was sentenced to jail, according to Dn.se. After jailtime he is exiled from Sweden. This is pretty common in Sweden, to exile criminals with foreign citizenship if they brake the law.
Source 20121023:
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tunnelbanetjuv-doms-till-fangelse-och-utvisning
She chose to be a hero
Today I want to tribute the everyday hero. A girl in Råcksta, a area in Vällingby, helped a drunk man that fell down on the tracks in the Subway. Actually tree girls were involved in the rescue somehow. Is it like this – girls assist and men don´t? It was like this also when I happend to walk by a man strangling another. The men did nothing, women did.
I just am thankful that this drunk man met the right people. Thankful that there still are people that chose to be heroes. The world needs more heroes. Not robbers like the 28 year old man that robbed a drunken man and left the man on the tracks. Later on the drunken man was crippled for life.
Thank you for everyday heroes. Thank you for beeing you.
Source 20120921:
The everyday heroes
In todays Aftonbladet.se we can read about a everyday hero. This women rammed and took the keys away from a drunken driver. She says that he did not pay any attention on either the road or incoming traffic.
I am glad that the everyday heroes still exist, even though they are few. Not many would do what she did.
When you do the hero stuff, the law can bite you in the ass. There is a very fine line for what a everyday hero is allowed to do, we also learn in the article. Even though she saved someones life its not allways certain you are allowed to do what she did, isn´t it strange?
Source 20120728:
The everyday hero – the regular Joe or Anne
The everyday hero:s are everywhere. I know I have been that several times. The everyday hero seldom gets any other recognission than knowing it helped someone. In this Youtube-clip a everyday hero, does something where he is infact risking his life. You can still be a hero without risking your life though. If you wanna see a clip with a regular Joe then click the Aftonbladet-link below, couldn´t embedd it into this feed.
The everyday heros are the real heros. In Sweden we call it Civilcurage. That is the opposite of indifference. It´s a survival mechanism that can save many lifes.
Source: http://www.youtube.com
Source 20120720:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyheter/resa/hejvarlden/article14934799.ab?start=1110
