“Allow me to give my lord one last piece of counsel," the old man had said, "the same counsel I once gave my brother when we parted for the last time.
He was three-and-thirty when the Great Council chose him to mount the Iron Throne.
A man grown with sons of his own, yet in some ways still a boy.
Egg had an innocence to him, a sweetness we all loved. Kill the boy within you, I told him the day I took ship for the Wall.
It takes a man to rule.
An Aegon, not an Egg.
Kill the boy and let the man be born." The old man felt Jon's face. "You are half the age that Egg was, and your own burden is a crueler one, I fear. You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done.
Kill the boy, Jon Snow.
Winter is almost upon us.
Kill the boy and let the man be born.”
-George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
I found myself in awe that Aegon could be a husband, father, king, 33 years old, and someone with immense responsibility. And though he was loved by all, he still had left within him a man to grow in to.
A different Jon Snow, at 31, graduated from medical school in 1844 from the University of London. A decade later, he would deduce that London's cholera outbreak stemmed from infected well water, becoming the father of Epidemiology.
Perhaps, like me, you don't yet find yourself positioned for great deeds. You may struggle to envision the remarkable feats you might one day achieve.
If so, take heart.
Your time will come.
I think you have the strength in you to do what must be done.
- Jon TBD
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