Heroes

I was flipping through a recent issue of The Week magazine.  A blurb about Lea Michele caught my eye, and I read it in its entirety.  Just something about how she's an unlikely success because she wasn't discovered by Disney and because she has that nose.  Good for her, I say!

And then I saw the little column beneath that blurb where Brad Pitt is called a hero because while shooting his latest film, he stopped mid-scene to help a woman (an extra, I believe) who fell from being trampled by other people.  I think the article even mentioned that the woman must have been so surprised to see Brad Pitt helping her up.  Why?  Because he displayed humanity?

That this incident even warrants a couple of paragraphs in a magazine is ridiculous.  A human being acting like a considerate, humane human being?  No way.  I'll bet that only happens every day.  I don't know if the story is supposed to be that Brad Pitt was nice enough to help a lowly non-Angelina Jolie lookalike, or that a person helped *gasp* another person.  I do, however, agree that Mr. Pitt was a hero, but only in the sense that all humanely behaving humans are heroes.  Like the librarians who let me renew books a second time when the policy states a person can only renew once.  Like the woman who gave a stranger an extra 50 cents to pay for her purchases yesterday at the garage sale.   Like the child who runs out to meet the car and asks to help carry the groceries in.  They're all heroes.