Everyday Hero

You know its not everyday, you run into or watch a hero right before your very eyes. I always grew up believing heros were these great adventurers,  dragon slaying, girl saving, great Samaritans (blame disney movies if you must) to die for handsome men. But as I am growing up I find that they are not those list of things but something entirely different.

I remember the day I first met one of my hero's, I was four. The memory is a bit fuzy, I remember walking through a door and seeing a large bright window, that let in this glow that made all the details in my memory fuzz out into this glorious sunlight cream color. I remember the little face wrapped in a blanket and my parents asking me somewhere in the far distance, "what should we name him?"

Over our lives I honestly could not tell you every moment we spent together, and in all honesty I don't always remember any specific detail of my childhood or his. But today when he did one of the Bravest things I could imagine, they all came flooding back.

I remember thinking to myself,
"why is he so annoying?"
"why can't he just grow up?"
my parents telling me that "do you want to him to remember how mean you were?"
or a silent prayer "Heavenly Father, please let him live, I swear I will be a good example and and try to never be mean to him again."

But today none of that mattered. The sweetest kid I know, grabbed his bags out of the back of the car gave us all a hug goodbye and walked toward the next two years of his life, without even a look back over his shoulder.

He is my hero. He willingly does what he is asked, always believes that people are good even when they aren't and plans on spending two years of his life telling people how and what they should beileve because he believes in it with all his heart. He may not be a hero to you, but to me he is doing something I don't know if I could do. He has great strength, courage and a love for a people he has never met and that makes him my hero.

Be prepared, you will hear a lot about him.

I love you buddy.