Who is your hero?
My mother is my #1 hero also....she has been through hell raising 3 kids and dealing with breast cancer while we were all under 12 yrs old.
my ex is my savior though.....he has been there for me always...through thick and thin...yes, it's strange but we have a friendship that NOBODY understands..not even us!!!
Will post my diagnosis in a second!
Well, i usually lurk when it comes to some of your question Marsha,but i had to answer this question.I looked up to my mom,her b-day would have been October 4,2004.I still miss her very much cause she was'nt just my mom she was my bestfriend.I could tell her anything,and we did everything together.I miss that.I would give anything to have her back with me..Even tho shes not with me anymore i would like to thank her for being my mom and i Love and miss her ever much...
this is a great question, and I think 18 months ago post-op I would have had an entirely different answer for you. I've had many heros during my life, but (and this will sound corny, and probably arrogant too) I decided to become my own hero.
I have had self-esteem issues all my life, but I am also very proud of what I can do when I set my mind to it. I just don't often believe I can accomplish those things. I shock myself when I am creative sometimes and turn out some really wild artistic project that wins awards. I then fall into a spiral thinking everyone expects that of me and I can't live up to being good enough to win any awards, anyway so before my surgery when I started having doubts whether I'd be strong enough/determined enough/brave enough/ or even pretty enough AFTER I lost weight well, I made a promise to be my own hero, to be brave and strong and inspiring and to try and DAILY believe in myself and be proud of myself the way I would be for my various heros that I look up to.
We should all try to look up to ourselves as well as others because it IS a self-fulfilling prophecy. Believe you can do inspiring things and you will achieve them. Be your own hero and your own cheerleader, no one deserves it more!!!!!
Colleen