Everybody vicariously lives the saga of the hero through the fictional stories they read or see on TV or at the movies. Every hero (normally) is confronted with some kind of a problem. Occasionally these problems show themselves as invincible antagonists whom the hero must defeat through some means or the other using strategy and the correct placement of words and actions at the correct times and in the correct places. The hero, when taken down from its tropological form into the form we understand, is ourselves. The hero is the free will in the center of the mind and heart. And arrayed before it, as Hegel pointed out, are an infinitude of decisions. While it remains motionless, the will is in contact with eternity and infinity because it has yet to commit itself to any direction. Once it chooses a decision from its array of choices, it becomes finite, limited to the choice it has selected. This is the hero analogically.

The invincible antagonist, or enemy, takes many forms, but could be seen as pride and ignorance, or the clouds of the mind. The uneducated clouds of darkness existing in either the heart or the mind. A cloud of emotions through which one can see nothing -- A cloud of ignorance which limits the range of the infinity of options, taking it from infinity to a number just short of that, so that it would seem as if it was an infinity, when in actuality it is not.

The hero becomes the victor once he has conquered pride, once he has discovered a method to disable pride and prevent it from defeating him, altering his choice which originally may have been good into something that no one can live with. Again the hero becomes the victor when he discovers, not how to know everything, which is an impossibility, but to recognize that he may never, and will never know everything and become comfortable accepting that portion of reality. Next, to select from his array of choices those things which for him are possible to understand; which for him will form his experience and education and remove the clouds of ignorance and the clouds of dark emotions from his mind and heart. To educate himself precisely in those areas where he sustains the most damage from pride -- precisely at the point where it forces his decisions off course to a place where no one can live with the outcome.

When the hero has conquered his pride, and when the hero has eliminated his ignorance, then and only then has the battle been won. From that point, what is left to defeat is the pride and ignorance of others. This is harder, because the hero does not have the freewill of others at his disposal. All he has is his experience and knowledge to tell him what is in front and behind and to the sides of him (and above and below), and to tell him who he’s looking at. From there he can only direct others to defeat the invincible pride and the unconquerable ignorance. He may not do it for them.

In this, all of us battle alone, solitary in a dark world, fighting blind, "tossed about with every wind of doctrine," until pride is vanquished and the ego is displaced and subdued and comes finally to rest in oblivion from whence it came. The chaos of turmoil and disturbance from whence it came is the only thing that it may produce. Having come from the realm of disturbance and destruction and turbulence, when excessively inflated and exercised, this is the only thing that pride can create.

Pride cannot create harmony, because it did not come from harmony. Pride cannot create understanding, because it did not come from the world of understanding or knowledge or wisdom. Pride cannot create unity, because it did not come from a place that is unified. It came from the dark realm of swirling black clouds and turbulence called Chaos -- the Unexpected -- the Unknown -- Evil. All things that come from this particular realm do not have the power to unify, make peace or create good in the world because they did not come from these things or from a world where any of these things are understood.

Once each person, or any person, realizes that he is no more significant than any other person in the world, he has defeated his pride to a large degree. There are other steps in the procedure, but that seems to take out a great bulk of the obstacle. Once he realizes that age makes no difference - race makes no difference - knowledge "which puffeth up" makes no difference; but that we are all free, moral agents, capable of moral agency and with the precise same number of options in front of us, lessened only by the pride and ignorance of others, at that point, the massive fires of pride are doused.

So, to the extent that we defeat our own pride and ignorance, this is the extent that we free options both for ourselves and other people for the freewills that we all possess. Once we eliminate our own pride and ignorance, this is no longer an obstruction -- a barrier -- for the free will of any other person, including ourselves. It is no longer a barrier to the world. And by eliminating and conquering our own pride and ignorance, this is the most effective and important step to making the world we live in better than it was before. This is more important than any other thing that could be done or said. Because the change that occurs when pride and ignorance are conquered is permanent and can rarely be undone. Which is why the Bible directs us to seek wisdom more than for hid treasures -- to seek out understanding more than fine jewels.

Proverbs 3:13-27

"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retaineth her. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding he hath established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it."

This is the best thing that I can say at this time. This is the way to be a hero in reality and not just in a fictional context. This is the way to change your life and make it something more than it was before.