Average is as average does

Parts of this essay made me think about things other than than what the author might have been talking about. While he seemed to concentrate on how no one is really ordinary and that we can't really measure what is really going on inside someone's head, I thought about something else. When Rose starts talking about his teacher MacFarland and the difference he made in his life, it made me think of teacher's that also woke me up to the fact that I was just blowing everything off and that I really needed to focus on what I was doing.
I was not a bad kid or anything. I spent my share of time in the hall in elementary and junior high school and more than once I had to have a teacher rescue me from the principal's office. Throughout elementary and junior high I had multiple teachers that went out on a limb to put some knowledge in my brain and some shoes on my feet (figuratively, I had shoes. Cool ones too, the ones with the gel that turned green and blue, except during the summer when it turned black because it was too hot...anyway).
I think it is important to realize that even when we become successful or when we "make it", we remember where we came from. Mike Rose does. If you read the introduction and see his accomplishments, he achieved much more than where he came came from. Not so we can say "Look how awesome I am, and I came from a garbage dump.", but so we can put things in perspective and credit the good people that sometimes risk a lot to help out a kid who everyone else thinks is just average. But average people are the minority, not the majority. Average people are average, and sometimes we need to be average to achieve more later.