Where Are All the Heroes?

I've decided to search for heroes.

Not the kind we grew up idolizing or idealizing--not the ones in our movies, our comic books, our sports, and our history books; not the ones in the iconographies of our youth. I'm talking about ordinary people alive today, waiting anxiously, patiently, angrily, or just waiting, for an answer to some of the worlds most harrowing problems, knowing they can contribute, or need to contribute, to whatever solution is needed, but not knowing where to start, or having a starting place but no support, or having both the starting place and the support but desiring more. More. Yes, more has to be done. And that's why I decided to start my search for these heroes.

Because there is a world out there to save, everyone. There's a world out there to save, and, although many humans have given up on the hope for change, for an end to or significant reprieve from the world's ills, I know there has to be away. It has to start with the cooperation, collaboration, and concentration of the world's heroes, concerted to help create a future we can all be proud of. Within our generation, our lifetime.

So welcome to my search for heroes. Some people, in their private moments, when nobody is watching or when they reach a state of frustration with the way things are going in their society or world...some people secretly ask themselves, "where have all the heroes gone?" I think the answer to that question lies in asking a more relevant and timely one: Where are all the heroes?

They are spread throughout the world's current 6.6 billion people. Of those, only 1.2 billion use the internet. Not nearly enough, but it's a start. And I'm going to find them; bring them together to create a decisive thrust towards change in our world.

This is my starting place.