Heroes Are Overrated

Growing up, I never wanted to be the hero in my own story

The whole idea seemed absurd to me

Heroes can't exist in a world that idolizes them

A real hero must exist in a world in which he is considered to be an outlaw

Someone that upsets the very foundation of the establishment

Kind of like Batman, which is why his face is tattooed on my leg

Growing up, I wanted to be an antihero

Somebody reluctantly thrust into something he had no business being involved in, but he made it work

Maybe he didn't want to save lives, but he still did it for the sake of the greater good

Maybe he drank, or smoked, or ate fattening food

But he still answered his calling, even if he hated what his calling was

Maybe that's why I became a writer

Or rather, maybe I always was one

It isn't the type of thing people aspire to, not really

People aspire to have the same fame or fortune as some of the greats, perhaps

But nobody ever wakes up and volunteers to sit at a blank document on a computer screen for hours upon hours

Writing a thousand words, deleting most of them, and ending the day no closer to done than they started

Because that isn't what people think of when they think of writing

They all see heroes

But writers aren't heroes

They're the antiheroes