Hood Heroes

Most heroes come from the most unlikely of places and they get no recognition for the lives they have changed.  Heroes are more than heroic acts, it's surviving things that would kill or destroy the average person giving people in the same situation hope for a better day too.  My favorite heroes understand struggles, hunger and pain but still survived to live another day regardless of what our so-called society thinks of them. My heroes are scarred deeper than the eye can see and still moving upward and on with life getting better by the day. Forgive the one's who will never understand you, they never will; they are too scared to face the strength within you.  They will never have the strength that will take you to the moon while they run around in circles living the "normal" life with no exciting stories to tell, no near misses to praise god for, no examples to teach their kids what to be aware of. They are just Gerbils running on a wheel in a cage called their life. You are the heroes that changed lives not the average gerbils...