I seem to recall you mentioning
that you are a youth mentor.

Some' observes, "Westerners see
adolescents as fundamentally naive
about life. By contrast, the tribal
mentor sees a youth as someone who
already contains knowledge that he
or she needs, but who must work with
an older, more experienced person to
'remember' what they know. A mentor
therefore is not a teacher in the strict
sense of the term, but a guide who shows
the way, working from a position of res-
pect and affinity, addressing the knowledge
within the young person. The pupil is not
an ignorant person in the eye of his or her
mentor. The pupil is seen as a storehouse,
a repository of something the mentor is quite
familiar with and very interested in, something
the mentor himself has and knows very well. The
mentor perceives a presence knocking at a door
within the pupil, and accepts the task of finding,
or becoming, the key that opens the door. There
develops a relationship of trust between mentor
and pupil, motivated by love, and without success
would be unlikely."