Saving the Private Ryan
Posted on Saturday, March 29th, 2003 at 23:00.
The decision to move to San Diego was difficult, to say the least. Apparently, my departure hurt Ryan more than I realized. I started mentally preparing for our separation the semester before my graduation. We were still planning to be best buds after I left for college, though I realized that the physical distance between us would not allow the intensity of our friendship to be maintained. And even though I traded Lynchburg for real life in San Diego instead of college in Boston, I thought he was ready. He wasn’t.
Ryan does not blame me, nor do I blame myself. But my leaving Lynchburg certainly aided to the self-finding struggle he still fights today. Ryan and I share the trait of ourselves being our biggest critic. This great man versus himself battle requires so much self-evaluation and realizing that Jesus Christ makes us perfect in God’s eyes, not our futile attempts at perfection. I sense the first of many victories in his own private war.
You always win when you fight yourself.
