A "superhero" among "normal" people?

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

In the 21st Century, where we have access to all and everything we want (either by just going out and grabbing it or by keying down some words in our preferred search engine) we are being confronted several times a day to choose between taking a good decision or not.

It is a very old dichotomy that has been around the most brilliant minds of our generations and resolved by the most humble ones.

Having the choice means in the first place, that we hold the freedom to do so, and act according to it. Also that we are  - somehow - aware of the consequences of such decision, and that we are going to live with such events for the rest of our lives.

Doing the right thing is not always as straightforward as it may sound, doing good may be dependent on the value scale that we hold for ourselves, the social context, the situational context and the last results. So, we need some framework that can give us some hints about whether we are acting on behalf of the "good side" or not.

The beauty of a superhero is that he or she is inherently good, meaning that, at least in the old days, we would not see a "goodie" doing the "evil dance", nowadays we face some more humane stuff, like the bad-good character or the good-betraying one (there is always a justification to such twists in the stories and why is needed to make them more appealing), but let's stand with the original idea.

A superhero then is a human, or a former human, performing actions of goodwill without looking for recognition or money. Sounds very utopian, but it is a matter of just going out to the latest movies and see what all those mythical characters are doing with all their jumping around the screen. But there is something more important, and that is, the people that go to watch this stories. How they enjoy them and how we can be inspired by these role models to try something on our own.

Just let's take the "characterization" and the "weapon development" out of the way. It is a matter of attitude and stand for what we believe is good. For our lives and ourselves. It is a matter of shining with our own actions and taking the right choices.

Inside each one of us lies the ability to create or to destroy, and we always have that option. Don't let the false sense of piety deceive you. Don't fool yourself.

Make something great of the world around you.

Any ideas?