Living with Honor, Remembering Her
If you remember my Christmas post, I wrote about a dear friend of mine who had become very ill. Over the many months I have written here, I have mentioned the movie With Honors and how I could relate to it,so much so that I watch it every year as a tradition. But now, for the first time, it rings truer than I ever thought it could.
Tonight, the world became still as I found out that my friend has passed away. I am close to graduation in a couple of months, but she won’t be here to see me through to the end in physical form. Instead, she lives on in memories, text messages, pictures, postcards, and words, and that has to be enough.
Graduating With Honor in Life
Just like Monty Kessler, I too have missed the mark to graduate with honors. However, I find myself graduating with something even greater, honor in life.
She won’t be here to see me achieve my wildest dreams, but I hope, just like Monty, I will always remember her words and voice telling me that whatever I decide to do, I’ll be brilliant at it, that I am a natural scholar.
More Than an Advisor, A Lifelong Mentor
She is the one in the middle. She came into my life as my college campus advisor and left this world as a dear family friend, someone who shaped me in ways I’ll carry forever.
She was my Simon Wilder.
Simon Wilder: [quoting Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”] “You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”
…thank you for everything.
The Broke College Student 
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