The Unsung Hero

High school has presented many experiences, many pleasant, but just as many have been of the sorts that you just have to endure. I have been through things such as talking friends out of suicides, and many other circumstances that were just so much less dramatic. This Post is dedicated to all the unsung heroes who are in our lives. Thank you.

As a teenager I am exposed to many things I’d rather just not discuss, but it’s necessary. In school you are exposed to partial (if not full) nudity, parents may sometimes think its not that bad in this world, but there are disgusting things in this sick world, there are drugs, there is erotic exposure, profane language, more violence than a war movie, and there are many, many more horrors that lurk in the halls: The teachers, I say this to give you an idea of why there are so many difficulties to being a teenager.

For girls it is especially difficult. We, as men(or teenage boys), are just flat out dumb. We can break hearts just as easily as we could break a pencil. It makes it incredibly difficult for the good guys who never want to hurt anyone. It is difficult on both sides, but the ones who take it the hardest are the ones in the middle. The high school best friend that you can always lean on.

This person usually is smart, kind, helpful, and maybe not quite so involved in the drama. He (usually the great guy friend) is subjected to both the highest and lowest degrees of honor. He is put through tasks that maybe are just too hard for the fragile person to handle.

This system has been around for as long as high school drama has existed. here is the basic layout: Guy is best friend with girl; girl is dating a total stone headed jock(maybe one of another click, but for sake of argument and stereotypes lets just say it’s the jock); jock breaks girl’s heart; girl comes crying to Guy best friend; Guy best friend carries his worries for her and her worries for herself, making it difficult for him to carry on with life because of stress around him; Guy desires to fix things for her; Guy helps her to fix up life; Guy may or may not become attracted to best friend girl in process; Guy wants girl to be happy; Guy watches as she makes the decision to be with some other not-so-freaking-awesome-as-Guy-in-fact-he-is-another-stone headed-jock(for the sake of argument and stereotypes); Guy the great (lets call him Superman, its a title that he deserves) gets his heart broken; Eventually girl moves on and never notices Superman, who has been there all along. Like I said, the Best Friend takes it hardest, but it can and has gotten worse, Superman happens to be best friends with both Stone headed Jock(for sake of argument and stereotypes) and Girl-whose-heart-is-to-be-broken.

Now for Superman the game has become even more difficult. He now has to play the good guy on both sides and fix things indirectly, and there is no way that he will ever get his girl because he wants both of them to be happy, and because he can’t live with himself if he betrays either of them. So he listens to both sides of the stories, swears secrecy to both of them, but little do they know that Superman now holds the keys to both of their hearts, and is capable of bringing them back together. Superman breaks his oath to secrecy and, doing what he knows is right(some secrets are better better not kept), tells one how the other feels. The problem fixes itself from there, and now Superman is happy, because his best friends are together, the secret foundation is soon to crash on him, but they will stay together, because they find that they do, in fact, still care for each other.

So this one is to the unsung hero, to the man in the middle, to the one who cares so deeply for happiness that he is willing to give up his own, to give it to his two best friends. It is how life has gone.

But, a glimmer of hope has found our dear friend Superman, he soon finds who he loves, and his life is better because he chose not to be with Best Friend Girl.

The moral of this story? Sacrifice is the best way to bring happiness for everyone. Superman may have endured pain, and been stabbed in the back with , but he is in fact the power behind the world. He is the man who will always be there because he does in fact love us. Superman is the unsung hero in your life. He is the father, he is the best friend, he is God, he is The Savior, and he will always be there.

So let us sing to our unsung Superman, let us look behind our own circumstances, and let us recognize our unsung hero.