January 14, 2008

• I watched the last half (right where they think he’s too controversial & take him off the air) of Good Morning, Vietnam yesterday (flashed between that and some football game), and there’s this scene where Robin Williams is standing up in a jeep, making the soldiers in the massive trucks around him laugh. As they take off into the jungle, he waves goodbye. It pulls at one’s “heart strings” because one knows many of those soldiers, back then, didn’t return. Or didn’t return in one piece, mentally or physically. So, as I am watching this, I am thinking of them back then, and us right now in Iraq, and then my stream-of-consciousness leads to the fact that everyday, we say goodbye to someone. The probability of us seeing that person again is high, yet, there’s a chance we’re waving goodbye for the last time. Should we treat each day as if we’re going off to “war,” that we’re heading into some dangerous jungle… probably not, but still, there’s a chance that someone’s time is up, and we don’t know when that time is. Sure, it’s a Monday, but who’s to say that someday I may not die on a Tuesday? And all along, I’ve been slow to get up and jumpstart my Mondays. Never a Friday.

  I realize that that was quite a depressing entry for a Monday; however, it should be noted that I’m quite content today – something in my life has taken an unexpected turn. I’m hoping for the best, yet preparing for the worst.

  • 2:45 pm
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