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What Makes People Become Heroes?

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Have you ever been in a situation that just makes your whole life stop? The only thing you can focus on is the situation around you. Everything else is erased all your other worries vanished. This is the feeling is what makes people become heroes in crisis situations. I know that’s the feeling I felt. It’s the call nobody ever wants to receive. Here we are in the middle of nowhere in a house I’ve never been too before in the middle of a party with unfamiliar people. The phone rings a close friend, when I answer I can hear an overwhelming sound of fear in his voice. “Nate, he’s dead, we went for a drive and he flipped his car trying to show off.” He says over the phone in a shaky panicked voice. “Slow down, what are you talking about Alex?” I say in a very stern voice. I’m having trouble hearing, as the party is so loud. Don’t these people know I am trying to talk don’t they understand this is a serious phone call. I sprint outside knocking into people as I break through the crowd and outside in hopes to hear Alex better. “Alex, what did you say? Tell me what’s going on?” “Nate, Gage he flipped his car he is, he is dead.” I can hear that Alex is crying at this point, I can hear the pain in his voice. “Alex where are you? Have you called 911? I’m on my way, just tell me where you are.” It was like a person I didn’t know came alive inside of me as Alex rattled off directions to where he was over the phone. I became a man I didn’t know I was. I told Alex to hang up the

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