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Everyone has a hero today, most who do are children, but adults belong in that group too. The hero is generally someone so famous he is known all over the world, or may be a family member of close friend. It is a normal practice to respect someone and wish to emulate that person.

Looking up to a hero is a characteristic that many children learn from their parents. There is nothing wrong with that. When we have someone to respect and want to be like, it gives us the nudge to improve ourselves. If our hero can be that cool, maybe we can too if we only work at it.

Most of the time in today's society, the person we most want to be like is a celebrity. When we think about it, it's really no surprised that some many people look up to them. From an outsider's view point, they have as much money as they could ever want, a beautiful house, and even a maid to clean up those houses. To most Americans that sounds like a dream come true.

Popular magazines and tabloids publish so many photographs and articles about famous people because they fascinate us, we can never attain the heights to which they currently have risen to. Perhaps, even more important than that, these same popular publications also print the foibles and tribulations these celebrities are heir to, adding wonderful meat to our gossip sessions while bringing them truer to life for us.

Given all the publicity for celebrities whom the vast majority of us have never met, wouldn't it be neat if we could have a role model or hero that is actually accessible?

So why would you look up to someone you have never met? I think the people who could best answer that would be the people treated at Cancer Treatment Centers of America or the children who are patients at St. Jude Children's Hospital. For someone living with cancer the people they often look up to the most are the researchers and scientists fighting to find a cure for cancer.

Thousands of people every day are diagnosed with cancer, many of them youngsters. If you are one of the fortunate who have never had cancer, it is difficult to know how devastating a diagnosis of cancer can be. We can understand, though, that the disease is often excruciatingly painful and we hope the diagnosis never pertains to us. The good news is the scientists have been diligently at work for years engaged in research to find a cure for cancer.

Just fifty years ago, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. There was so little known about the disease and its many variations. Today, because of the diligence and dedication of scientists and physicians all over the globe, people suffering from cancer have a means to fight the disease.

These professionals have given the lives back to millions of people. For them, these hard working researchers toiling to find a cure for cancer are heroes. Next time you are in a discussion about heroes or choosing one of your own to look up to and respect, you couldn't do much better than selecting someone who has made the lives of millions so much better through their dedicated work to find a cure for cancer.