All That's Known....

It's impossible to ever really know what we're doing. Usually we're sitting, carefully perched on one leg, sitting on a couch looking out at the world and challenging it to look back, or endlessly moving without a real knowledge of what we're doing but that it will bring us new meaning. That is, in the end, the summation of our friendship.

Peter Rimkunas is a product of Gorham, Maine. His family consists of five of the most rambunctious people that you'll ever meet. Never having met his parents, instead hearing tales of jumpsuits and singing, to name a few, I have had the pleasure of meeting only his siblings. Peter is unlike either of his siblings but instead a summation of their parts. His brother Jonas is an outgoing and outrageous guy who pounces around a lot with no worry or care. His sister, Miriam, is much more on the quiet and reserved side. Her power stems from her ability to wield words like a finely honed blade. Peter on the other hand is much like Winnie the Pooh in that he is always jumpy and fun but when the situation calls for it he can be serious and extremely thoughtful, saying nothing but really saying everything. Peter is one of those people who you can't help but like. His aura is always colorful. He is always willing to say something that will cheer you up. Most of the time he does it unintentionally.

Sean Edwards is a very different ball of wax. To meet Sean is to meet your everyman. Sean too was born in Gorham, Maine. His parents are divorced and live in two very different worlds. To listen to him talk is almost to see the shots of a finely aimed rifle. He never keeps a thought to himself but saves the really good ones for just the right moment. A scholar of letters, typed no less but still letters, who reads life like an old book. The best thing about Sean is that he knows how to speak. Not really speak in the general but to speak eloquently and know what to say. It could easily be said that his word and personality are comforting in their simplicity but always hide more than you expect them to.

Then there's me. I am only me. I can be nothing else. Peter, Sean and I compliment each other so that you can only hope to say nothing and say more. I have been forever changed by my relationship with these two guys.

The goal of this assignment was to write a character profile. Character profiles are usually about one person but at the same time sometimes you get the inkling to write wildly about that giant pink elephant in the room. In my life I've had the pleasure of meeting so many people . Yet rarely do I feel the urge to do things by the book. I chose to do this assignment not on one person, that's too normal, instead. I opted for a profile of a friendship. That's what life is. To deny such a fact is to deny life itself. I never feel like doing things by the book. This assignment is no different. If I should fail, I accept such a fact. Failure too is part of life. In the end I had to do a profile of the most important thing in my life: my friendship with two of the best people I've ever met. In the end, the air in any room that we inhabit is a character unto itself.