He is 6’ 5”, skinny, bearded, and looks like a combination of Abraham Lincoln and Henry David Thoreau. He is triple majoring in Religion, Political Science, and Philosophy with a 4.0 and he knows more about these subjects than anyone I have ever been exposed to. Even famous scholars I’ve read from and never met.
He can almost instantaneously deconstruct any argument you throw at him about anything, and he lives by his own philosophy, which I can only try to describe as a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Sufism, and ass-kicking, and nobody has ever been able to effectively argue against him. Not even me, and I’m the closest intellectual match to him within my school.
He sleeps on a rattan mat, sold most of his worldly possessions except for some clothes, books, and Pokemon cards. He has memorized large sections of the work of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rumi, St. Augustine, and various Indian philosophers. In addition to world religions and philosophy, he is literally an expert on fantasy literature, agriculture, environmental sustainability, logic, and math.
He lives an ascetic life of reading, service to others, hard work, and reading, and I’m proud to say he is one of my best friends.