Seth Christian Leach

Seth was an extraordinary young man with a thirst for life, no matter what that meant to him at the time. He was random; was involved in boy scouts, swam on his school team for Lamar High, and a connoisseur of milk, steadily enjoying 4 cups a day. A kindred spirit, partner in crime and true friend was his hamster “Grizzly”; they were so close they began to resemble each other in the way they slept. Growing up his family knew early on that he did things his way. When he was 16 he became his own sovereign nation.

Seth wanted to try everything; 5 months of being a vegetarian, building his own special cave for when he tried to be nocturnal, to sleeping upside down. Even though he didn’t care to waste his time on television shows he did enjoy movies, his favorite was Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which explained a lot about who he was. A traveler by nature he had an adventurous and roaming spirit. Seth was very musically inclined and always moved to his own beat, whether it came from a piano, guitar, the occasional accordion, or even just singing a cappella in a cave.

Seth had a hunger for “Experiencing Life”. He would pick a subject and divulge himself into it until he knew everything he could. With his ability to absorb anything he read and his yearning for information, many people thought him to be a genus. He studied anything that caught his interest including philosophy. While in Virginia he worked at an organic co-op farm. He was tech savvy, with the ability to fix any problem your computer could have, or cause any problem he wanted if he was upset. While he attended North Lake College he worked on duel credits and tutored. He had a sharp wit and sought to educate himself no matter which state he found himself in at the time.

Defiantly a minimalist and fearless he was rather fond of the occasional skinny dip, and his own personal style of a white V-neck and blue jeans completed with a fancy pair of shoes and a P-coat. He was an original pioneer-“One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle”. Going where ever the wind would take him, his family was never surprised when they got a phone call from Seth that he had moved to a different state, or a knock on the door late in the evening and it was Seth. He was the definition of a free spirit; he loved hard and played harder.

"So I accept God and am glad to, and what's more, I accept His wisdom, His purpose--which are utterly beyond our ken; I believe in the underlying order and the meaning of life; I believe in the eternal harmony in which they say we shall one day be blended. I believe in the Word to which the universe is striving and which itself was "with God" and which itself is god and so on and so on to infinity. There are all sorts of phrases for it. I seem to be on the right path, don't I? Yet would you believe it, in the final result I don't accept this world of God's and although I know it exists, I don't accept it at all. It's not that I don't accept God, you must understand, it's the world created by Him I don't and cannot accept. Let me make it plain. I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened with men-- but though all that may come to pass, I don't accept it. I won't accept it...that's my creed.

- "Ivan"

The Brothers Karamazov