The Hero In All Of Us

Last year about this time, I put together this video mashup of two scenes from Spider Man 2. In it, you hear Aunt May talking about how there’s a hero in all of us as an underscore to the big train rescue scene I spliced together to fit. YouTube suspended the video not long after I posted it (copyright issues, I’m sure), but then somewhere along the lines in the last year, they restored it.

The irony? I didn’t know about it until a few weeks ago.

This video’s been watched by thousands of total strangers – and a few even commented positively on it – before I knew it has been restored and viewable on YouTube. It was a lesson to me that sometimes – no matter how bad or worthless we think something is – it can still reach people and still have an impact. Even when you think something’s been “thrown away”, it can still change lives.

I once “gave up” on a car. Literally left it parked in the lot of a local stadium – with the keys and the title inside it. It had a blown head gasket, and I couldn’t afford to have it fixed or towed. Three or four months later, I saw the exact same car driving down the road in a nearby neighborhood – full of kids and a smiling driver. I know it was the same car because it still had the bumper sticker I made for my “world tour” on the back bumper.

“I believe there’s a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride.”

-Aunt May