The Best Mentors

I think the best mentors must be something like Gandolf the Grey. They convince you seemingly against your will to abandon your nice warm hole in the ground where you enjoyed 5 meals a day and were comfortable. They spur you to forge forward always able to help, but patient enough to let you handle challenges on your own. They draw from somewhere deep within your soul the courage, bravery, and insanity required to stand invisible before the dragon who stands between you and your goals and craft-fully fight riddles with riddles. But best of all they introduce you to friends who love fiercely, and will not abandon you even if it means death and which not even an eternity of time can separate.