Friday, September 5, 2008

feeling old

so, this is my 5th year at virginia tech.
so with an exception of graduate students and faculty, there is nobody older than me here.
that's a pretty strange realization, that i no longer have those older guys in IV to look up to like Nate Cook, BJ Walbert, Matt Sidell, etc. Now i am those guys for a lot of people.
That feels like a lot of pressure. I kinda gave some of those guys a heroic myth to them. They were older and wiser and and done so much stuff, how am i supposed to live up to that?
But i think i'm coming to the realization that those guys were great because they invested in the lives of the underclassmen. Sure, they had a lot of stuff to deal with as far as their own classes and graduation, but they still chose to be important and influential in the lives of younger students, and that more than anything left a lasting impression on me. I hope that is something i can do for underclassmen now, and something they can do when they're seniors.
So as busy as i get this year, i need to continue to remember to be relevant in the underclassmen's lives. Not just some old dude who is never around cause he's so busy.
So thanks to God for those influential guys that came before me, and hopefully, those influential guys who come after me.