Aragorns' Mentor
One oft forgot part of the story of Aragorn is that of his upbringing. His education took part mostly in Rivendell under the instruction of Elrond Half-Elven. The reason Aragorn was brought up in this manner is that his mother perished.. her last words being "I give hope to men, I keep none for myself". Aragorn grew wise and strong, eventually travelling out of Rivendell on his own to explore the wilds and be trained as a ranger. From thence forth well... we all know what happens.
So I guess it's time to finally address it...
JD has gone. He's now moved into Indianapolis, working for the International Headquarters of Theta Chi Fraternity.
That's right, my big is now a part of the International staff *struts*. Pretty damn proud of him too. Go JD.
Sadly, that means he has left me. Being my mentor and teaching me damn near everything I know about Theta Chi and college... I'm really going to miss him. Not to mention I look up to him.. a lot. I've never had a big brother and I've never really had a CONSTANT male role model. I mean when I was young I had my Dad, which was awesome. Of course during four of the most crucial years of my life he sorta... was gone. A lot of bad life choices and a bad wife lead to some time apart..
This could be partly why I'm so emotional. I mean I grew up mostly with my Mom. My Mom ALWAYS taught me how to treat girls... what they like... what they don't.. what to do. I mean, she was trying to mold me into the perfect husband. Sadly, I'll fall short of her goal, I'm sure, but it's just the fact.. I don't put up the big bad macho facade. It's just not who I am. I'm a pretty emotional guy and if you know me at all, you'll know that.
Which made JD leaving even harder. I mean he's done SO much for me, even in the short year he was my big brother.
So I go to leave, knowing full well that he'll be leaving tommorow... I tell him thanks (since he cooked burgers for us and all) and he says oh yeah sure. I sort of stopped to turn around, I mean what do you say? Someone who's had a really big impact on you, molding you into the Brother, Man and Friend that you are today... it would be like saying a final goodbye to your Dad, or your Uncle or your real big Brother. I mean what do you say?
I guess he could sense it and he just told me not to get mushy. So I honored that and just jumped in my car and left.
I guess it's as good a goodbye as you can get. I mean goodbye IS goodbye right? I dunno. It just sucks that he's gone. I'll be OK and he'll do great but I mean... damn this year was fun.
Just not going to be the same without JD.
Ah well, there I addressed it and now we move on..
Today, on the same sappy note, I checked out my old elementary school. All old and run down, windows broke. It's really sad, but the actual playground is still the same. Rusty and run down, but the same. It was so cool to be out back. Everything was so much bigger in my mind. Mind you this is where I went for Kindergarten, First and Second grade. I left after that. It was so cool to see it all but so sad to see it in such bad repair. I could see the blackboards still in there... the music room where we used to sing and draw Treble Cleffs. It was just so cool. I remember reading 100+ books to try and beat the Zimmerman twins, to no avail.. falling a few books short. The Counselors office down the hall and the upstairs classrooms (which I never got to) where the *big* kids had class. I remember the art room where we first figured out that we were "the class of 2004" which seemed like such an oddly distant and large number.
Just crazy, old runs down memory lane.
Just goes to prove that once things change, they're never the same *obviously*. But you forget just HOW different things are. It's crazy.
Cheers everyone and until tommorow...
So I guess it's time to finally address it...
JD has gone. He's now moved into Indianapolis, working for the International Headquarters of Theta Chi Fraternity.
That's right, my big is now a part of the International staff *struts*. Pretty damn proud of him too. Go JD.
Sadly, that means he has left me. Being my mentor and teaching me damn near everything I know about Theta Chi and college... I'm really going to miss him. Not to mention I look up to him.. a lot. I've never had a big brother and I've never really had a CONSTANT male role model. I mean when I was young I had my Dad, which was awesome. Of course during four of the most crucial years of my life he sorta... was gone. A lot of bad life choices and a bad wife lead to some time apart..
This could be partly why I'm so emotional. I mean I grew up mostly with my Mom. My Mom ALWAYS taught me how to treat girls... what they like... what they don't.. what to do. I mean, she was trying to mold me into the perfect husband. Sadly, I'll fall short of her goal, I'm sure, but it's just the fact.. I don't put up the big bad macho facade. It's just not who I am. I'm a pretty emotional guy and if you know me at all, you'll know that.
Which made JD leaving even harder. I mean he's done SO much for me, even in the short year he was my big brother.
So I go to leave, knowing full well that he'll be leaving tommorow... I tell him thanks (since he cooked burgers for us and all) and he says oh yeah sure. I sort of stopped to turn around, I mean what do you say? Someone who's had a really big impact on you, molding you into the Brother, Man and Friend that you are today... it would be like saying a final goodbye to your Dad, or your Uncle or your real big Brother. I mean what do you say?
I guess he could sense it and he just told me not to get mushy. So I honored that and just jumped in my car and left.
I guess it's as good a goodbye as you can get. I mean goodbye IS goodbye right? I dunno. It just sucks that he's gone. I'll be OK and he'll do great but I mean... damn this year was fun.
Just not going to be the same without JD.
Ah well, there I addressed it and now we move on..
Today, on the same sappy note, I checked out my old elementary school. All old and run down, windows broke. It's really sad, but the actual playground is still the same. Rusty and run down, but the same. It was so cool to be out back. Everything was so much bigger in my mind. Mind you this is where I went for Kindergarten, First and Second grade. I left after that. It was so cool to see it all but so sad to see it in such bad repair. I could see the blackboards still in there... the music room where we used to sing and draw Treble Cleffs. It was just so cool. I remember reading 100+ books to try and beat the Zimmerman twins, to no avail.. falling a few books short. The Counselors office down the hall and the upstairs classrooms (which I never got to) where the *big* kids had class. I remember the art room where we first figured out that we were "the class of 2004" which seemed like such an oddly distant and large number.
Just crazy, old runs down memory lane.
Just goes to prove that once things change, they're never the same *obviously*. But you forget just HOW different things are. It's crazy.
Cheers everyone and until tommorow...