Wanting to become a teacher, and why?

I have always wanted to become a teacher ever since i was a young child. Although i feel as though many little girls want to become teachers when playing with friends. I did because i wanted to be in charge, i was the smallest one throughout all of school even now usually, and i liked to make myself known so i always had to be the teacher of the group while playing pretend. I never thought that my childhood dream would ever become true one day, until my Aunt Mary passed away from breast cancer. She was my role model when it came to me wanting to be a teacher as i got older, and actually going for my goals. She was a teacher herself, a special needs teacher actually. She was the most amazing women, she treated each and every child as if they were her own. They loved everything about her, and her smile could make a lot of their days. She showed them consistency as well as love and care. She went above and beyond call outside the classroom she rode the bus with them to school and home from school, to make sure she was with them to help at all times. When she passed away, you could tell the impact she had on all the children she has ever taught, special needs and not. At her funeral there were many children there, some older some younger and some with their own children. Outside was the school bus she drove on everyday, the children and other teachers got together and put her name on a bus to always remember the impact she had on them, and always be with them at all times, even though she was gone. Her charm and personality was an added bonus to making me realize that having such a positive attitude can get you far in life. I wish she was still here and able to teach me more, and calm me down on certain days to make me remember why i do what i do, but what i can always do is think about her. Keeping with this career is allowing me to really be myself, I don't think the children learn from me half as much as i learn from them. I love what i do, and i will continue to love it. It doesn't even feel like a job, it feels like a hobby. One day i will open my own preschool, and i will do things all the time that will remind me of my aunt and i hope every time i do that i am making her proud and that i can be half the teacher she was, and still is since her love of teaching lives on in so many people! I can't wait to see where life takes me from here, and so glad that i made such an incredible decision on what i wanted to do! <3