Though I Do Not Know the Way
My dad and I, over the last several months, have been collecting quotes and moments of quiet heroism. These aren't the banner moments of a story. It isn't underscored by a symphony and highlighted by dramatic shifts in lighting. It's a moment where someone looks at the scenes around them, realizes that if anyone is going to do anything, it has to happen now, and makes a humble choice to be the difference. My dad described it as the moment where someone "decides to be more than what they are". One of the quintessential moments that built the framework of this trope is Frodo's declaration that he will take the Ring to Mordor "though [he does] not know the way". I've started seeing similar moments everywhere, of course in the books I read and movies I watch, but more often in the people I see around me. I have no shortage of examples that surround me when I think of heroics. It's a castmate taking a moment of silence to bring up a concern she h...