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This is the best short story I’ve read in quite a while – here’s an excerpt I can’t explain this, so you’ll just have to believe me: last month my brother and sister-in-law asked my wife and me to adopt one of their cats. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much to you. Maybe you [...] I’ve been getting to the gym and doing my time but the quality of my workouts have suffered. The gym at Balad was absolutely packed with equipment, unfortunately, that is not the situation at McChord’s gym. For some reason, the quality of my workout has been slipping but I’m still doing my time. I [...] Since I was 5 years old, I have been nothing but a student. I have known no other life. Go to school, come home, do your homework, go to bed, and do it all over again the next day. I have known the agony of tests, finals, and pop quizzes. I have thrived [...] If you’ve been here before you’ve read some extremely mundane crap. Little did I know, other people – famous people – are prone to post mundane crap – just like the rest of us. Martha Stewart wrote a mundane and incredibly boring post about her trip to the DMV. If you’ve got nothing else [...] I caught an interesting article about kids that built their own wiffle ball field in the middle of undeveloped city grounds. They cleared the land, put up an American flag, and put up their version of Fenway’s green monster. Soon after – the lawyers came. I’ll let you read the rest of the article [...] I had to stay late at work today – joy of joys! They provided me and my car a ride home because driving tired is as bad as driving drunk. Imagine staying up until 3AM – yeah – that’s the level of tired I was experiencing. I had consumed copious quantities of caffeine but [...] I’ve dealt with it in the past and I didn’t expect to deal with it again – but – its happened. I have a spastic dog. Fireworks are illegal in the state of Washington – save for a span of about 36 hours around the fourth of July and new years. Despite the fact [...] We traded dogs – yet again. We thought that Violet was going to be happy out here but it turns out that she only thrives when living in the pack. We packed the two dogs in the car the other day and took them down to her parents house while we were at Kayla’s [...] It is quite hard to find humor in my life here but there are a few things that make me laugh – daily – in Iraq. I took a few photos today of some things that make you laugh or just say huh? So, without any further delay, here they are. admin edit – [...] Action – reaction – inaction – overreaction We are offered with three basic choices in response to any given event. Many of use will react appropriately to any situation and move on with our lives. A common occurrence we can all relate to is driving down the interstate and fighting traffic when someone cuts us off intentionally or unintentionally. Most of us will react by thinking or saying something negative about the habits of that driver. The insanely calm among us will fail to react and will treat it as unavoidable part of the drive. Some will overreact – they will tailgate the driver or worse yet, chase them and threaten or use physical violence against the driver that offended them. What gives me concern that we, as a nation and as a race, have begun to overreact more often than not. In the past month there have been a series of shootings that have left high school students dead in South Chicago. Most of these incidents were gang related and were caused by pride. If this person belongs to one gang and I belong to another they are my sworn enemy because I am proud of my gang. Members of the gangs are willing to kill to show their pride regardless of the initial action. If they were to egg cars randomly and yours was hit the proper response would be to wash it off and possibly call in a complaint to the police. The choice for inaction lead to washing off the vehicle and continuing on with their lives. Instead of the first two choices we saw overreaction that brought as violence against those who initially engaged in the vandalism. In Iraq overreaction is seen on a daily basis. Sectarian violence exists because of the pride one sect of Islam feels for their beliefs. Instead of keeping their beliefs and sharing with those who are willing they instead kill fellow Iraqis. |
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