Aaron Hendriks:  

Life Aaron Hendriks was a great and wonderful man that was kind and helpful to all. He was a great father and husband as well. He had no reservations about his life and met every goal that he had. He had a great family, a great job, he received his degree in MIS he was able to retire at a young age and travel to all of his dream destinations. I do hope that my eulogy is stated like this as this is what I dream of at this point in my life. I see my life a journey that is made of choices. I used to ready choose your own adventure books when I was a child and I do believe that this is the way that we live our lives. I see my live really taking shape in High school around the same time that I started working. I attended High School in Costa Mesa, CA. This was a far cry from where I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I had moved to CA when I was 5 so I had always known school in CA. I was the typical Jock in school. I lettered on the Cross county team in the 1st 2 months of School and also in Track and Field in the second part of the year. I also was in the advanced English courses at school and was performing great there as well. I was struggling in Math but I was getting good grades overall. I did not take school terribly seriously as I was able to get good grades without much work. I look back at this and see that I made several mistakes at this time because of this lack of a work ethic. I focused all of my energy on exercising and not academics. I wish that I had more of an equal percentage but I was young and the counsellors did not see what I was doing. I kept this all through school but it got worse as I was able to do more on my own. At fifteen I started working at the local Ice skating rink. I know that you are thinking “Ice Skating in So Cal”, but I was lucky in that it was a fad and the rink was right across the street from our apartments. Again this was so that I could skate for free and get more exercise. I was running every day and skating 5-7 days a we...Expand for more