“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”
— Albert Einstein
32-year-old Aaron Tucker of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was just a week out of jail and had a job interview.
So, early that morning he grabbed the dress shirt the halfway house had given him and headed off on the bus. A ways down the road, the bus driver spotted a car that had just hit a tree and flipped over.
Aaron ran out of the bus, kneeled down and unbuckled the driver. He pulled him away from the wreckage and kept telling him, “You’re gonna be ok.”
Moments later, the car was covered in flames. Aaron took off his nice, clean shirt and used it to help stop the driver’s head from bleeding. A few minutes later, firefighters and EMTs arrived.
Aaron missed his job interview that day. It was important to him but something else became much more important.
“A job can come and go,” said Tucker, “but a life is one time thing.”
When members of the community heard about his story, they started a GoFundMe page and raised more than $60,000 for him. He also had many job offers to choose from.
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Always remember there is goodness everywhere and kindness matters.
