Incidentally this article made me think about people who save other's life, sometimes at personal risk. I am not thinking about big hero - like actions (which a

Incidentally this article made me think about people who save other's life, sometimes at personal risk. I am not thinking about big hero - like actions (which are of course fantastic) but rather Joe passing by and somehow saving Bob's life. I had two cases like this in my life. In one of them I saw a car rolling over on a highway and stopped to see if the driver was fine (alive, actually). He was there, breathing, and there was petrol all over the place. I got him out before the car shared to burn (quite slowly, nothing like in movies). I did not even think once about my safety, I did not think about anything, actually. There was strictly nothing heroic in what I did because brain was not involved at all. I wonder if others have this as well - for me a hero is someone who realizes what he or she can loose and despite this take the risk to help someone. This was not my case at all and would not be either if my children were at stake, for instance.