This guy was my daughters bus driver from school

http://www.gastongazette.com/news/helton-33599-died-park.html#slComments

I post his article not to depress anyone but to show something. I have met a lot of men who are mechanics, teachers, postman, garbage man, etc who think they have careers and lives that do not matter in the scheme of things and i have seen it eat away at them.

This guy was a school bus driver and a elementary school janitor, not exactly the most flashy of careers. He took those jobs 4 years ago after retiring form his primary occupation. He did those jobs with such humanity he has impacted the lives of hundreds of school children here. He was very loved by the people who worked with him and the children who he showed so much love. His last act as bus driver was to stop the bus as he felt his condition worsen, get it out of gear and get the brake on before he lost consciousness. His first thought on coming to was on the children.  At the time he was told he had a 10% chance of surviving and he was worried about the kids...

If anything what he shows us is no matter who you are or what you do, you do not need to be a CEO or big shot to leave a big impact on the world and change it for the better.

Heroes are not all CEOs.

In fact very few CEO's or management people are heroes.

Heroes are the regular guys who do wonderful things for others without asking for anything in return.

May he rest in peace.

Real character is often found where you would never think to look.

Forget who said it but it goes:

"Children are like wet cement; everything that touches them leaves an impression."

That being the case, this man left his mark on the world for generations to come. May he rest in peace.

One of the best lessons I was ever taught was never to identify a person by occupation.  It is all to rare that a person actually matches up with our own jaded illusion of what a ________ would be like.