On Aug. 12, 2015, Jordan Rhym and her family drove to Morehouse College in Atlanta. for the parents’ parting ceremony to say a final goodbye to her brother Chad Rhym. Chad has been named as one of 30 King Legacy Scholars at Morehouse College. Photo by Darren Rhym.
By JORDAN RHYM – Print Copy Editor
Sophomore Jordan Rhym reflects on the good and the bad of having a sibling leave for college.
On Aug. 11, 2015, my brother Chad left for Morehouse College in Atlanta. I have lived with him for all 15 years of my life, and now he’s gone. And I am on cloud nine.
Chad leaving means that I have my own bathroom. I can play my instruments as loud as I want. I inherit his car during the school year. I don’t have to fight over what we’re going to eat for dinner or who gets the last ice cream sandwich.
And best of all, there is a lot less yelling–he is pretty loud.
There’s a silence, a peaceful silence. The house no longer shakes because he’s running up the stairs and there is no longer a stench of dumpster funk due to his post-basketball game stink. Everything just seems a little cleaner.
It’s different.
Though there is a calm and peace in not having a six-foot-two giant in the house, I do miss a lot of the annoying things he did.
I miss getting teased about my horrible basketball skills and getting pushed whenever I ask a stupid question. I miss riding with him to school and his constant need to blast our least favorite radio station 100.1 when he wanted to get under my skin. I miss passing him in school everyday.
Chad and I are close.
He has always been the person who educates me on current events in the world and has always been someone who protects me. It’s scary to know that he won’t be able to be there at the drop of a hat anymore, but I don’t think that I need to be sad or scared because of his leaving.
All I really need to be is proud of him.
