it’s no longer the same, they no longer welcome me, those eyes that draw me in where you forbid many others to be, and now you look at me like it’s the first time, cautious, halting, withdrawn almost completely, stealing glances that are painfully empty, like your phrases that now hardly rouse the passion of those who once venerated you, seduced by the cause you stand for despite defeat after defeat, tempted by mere foretaste of a bliss only your soul could truly feel, because even the lines on your hands have lost their true meaning, switching places, crisscrossing in fury because you failed to tell the left hand what the right hand was doing. Ahh, you’re still quite funny like that. And absurd. And carefree. And perhaps, at your weakest, your fading wit shall be your most lucid saving grace.
It’s always sad when a mentor loses credibility.
mussolini: do you have a mentor?
yes, i had two…. and then they turned out to be human, so i found no need for them anymore. (p.s. this is why i never want to be mentor to anyone. he/she will find out i fart, too, and write an entry like this.)
i just have to say: i realize that my employess may never think of me as a mentor (which is great). in fact i know that they probably find me snotty. however, at the end of the day, i don’t have to be liked. i just have to be followed.
how about you? how do you deal with your default position as mentor to the nation’s brightest?
mussolini: it’s a strange position to be; i never considered myself a mentor to them because i am in search of one myself.
Very eloquent prose indeed and I could even qualify it as poetry
I think mentors come by chance because there are many bright people who don’t have the emotional intelligence to handle the job either because they’re socially inept , selfish or just plain dorks
Chemistry is also important because you only want to deal with someone who you know respects and trusts you - and this is true with both sides of the fence 
bw: can’t agree more. damn with too much hype on IQ; now is the age of EQ!