Mountains of my life: Forever Soldier

To be great!

Childhood impressions are quite lasting, and I think we all believe that. Once you experience something, or you meet an event, a thing, a person, for the first time in your life, that will never be gone on you. It's an imprint that can never erased from your memory bank, until you die, until eternity. An impression on me involves a personality. He could not be erased from my mind because of his accomplishments when we were then in high school. To my impression, he was a perfect creation, if I may say so. A valedictorian, student leader, a focus of girls' eyes, including my crush, he was an envy to everybody.

They are memories that could never be gone. I went to college, to other places, to other pursuits. Finally, I came across with the name again. He's an ordinary man now, like me, not rich, not an idol, and I can say that I am ahead on some little pursuits, not on material things but on some "minor" accomplishments like family, friends, and, some "little" happiness.

What went wrong? What happened to my idol?

I think, just I think, he was an ordinary lad like me then, and he became an idol only in my imagination. Man grows, works, accomplishes, one time, and then some other time. We will always have our time here on earth, God knows, and will let you know when will that time that be.

There's no one perfect. There is no one created more advanced than you. We are equal. Our imagination makes others perfect. Which should not be. We all have the capacity to advance, to improve, to be somebody more developed than we are now. And God permits it that way. Because we are semi-God, although we are not God. One thing is certain, we were created in His likeness, therefore we are near-perfect, we can strive to be great. And greater.

Not just my idol, but me too.