POST 6 mason saunders

1. Which person or entity served most as your childhood role model and why?
2. What life lessons have you encountered throughout your years that you wish to pass on to your predecessors/children?
3. If you could characterize yourself as a single Pokemon, which one would you choose?

I am choosing to respond to prompt 1: Which person or entity served most as your childhood role model and why?

From kindergarten to 5th grade, I was home schooled by my parents. Thinking back on it, I can neither blame nor thank my parents for the experience I had through those 6 years, however, it did provide an opportunity, through small co-op learning scenarios for me to meet my childhood "big brother". When I was in that time frame, my parents had a few select friends all of whom went to the same church as us and taught the same virtues and ideas in the same home school setting. In those years, one of the older sons whose name will be Jacob for the purpose of this story became the person I looked up to even to this day. He served as a person to model my life after and helped develop my delineated social skills. The majority of my good childhood memories occur at his house where I would spend time climbing their massive oak, playing on the Atari, and jumping on their trampoline which at the time, I equated to going to an amusement park; it was great. To address the why as to why Jacob served as my role model throughout my youth, it was partially because of the situation that I found myself in and partially because he as the only older male who could not and did not want to punish me. I could confide in him with my underdeveloped childish ideas and he wouldn't poke fun, I knew he would have my back if I were ever to be picked on, and I could always trust him to impress me with some irrelevant, over complicated scheme that would win us liberty of some genre.