So, I got this Lego set when it came out. I spent hours putting it together. The Republic Gunship, an engineering masterpiece, so beautiful to look at and equipped with rockets and lasers sufficient to murk all those Lego battle droids. I would play with it every day after school.

Until, one day, when I came home from school and it was missing. It wasn’t on my desk, where I left it. I frantically searched my house for it and couldn’t find it. It’s not like it would be difficult to hide, a fine piece of hardware like that. The pride and joy of my Republic forces would surely catch my eye if it were sitting anywhere in the house. But none of my family members knew where it was either.

That night, resigned to my misfortune, I sat in my bed, crying out to the Force for guidance. And lo, as I cast my eyes to the foot of my bed, I noticed that behind my clothes basket there was a piled up blanket. I jumped out from under my covers and went to investigate. I instantly realized that the blanket was covering something and jerked it away.

At first glance, I knew the worst had occurred. My Gunship, the pride and joy of all my Legos, lay there smashed and broken on the floor! Sadness and despair washed over me like waves on Kamino while I held the pieces of my beloved creation in my hands. It was as if a real Hailfire Droid had hit my Republic Gunship with it’s missiles and utterly destroyed it.

I went to find the culprit, and eventually I learned that it was my little brother, who while playing had horrendously piloted my ship right into the ground, breaking it into many pieces. This was not an instance where Obi-Wan could say, “not to worry, we are still flying half a ship,” but rather “when they find us, they will crush us, grind is into little pieces, then blast us into Oblivion.” Indeed, my little brother, in all his idiocy, had lost a couple of the pieces, rendering the instructions, those Sacred Texts, absolutely worthless.

That day I learned that all good things come to an end. And I have never forgiven, nor forgotten, the pain that my little brother inflicted upon my soul.