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Jade is a Shade of Green
May. 30th, 2009 11:51 pmI began to think how mickey-mouse my life has become... on the way to playing a concert tonight in downtown Portland, I turned on to what is normally a traffic-logged street. There was one car in front of me, who took the last available right before the street became an overpass. I looked ahead of me. I think to myself, This street is completely empty. There is no route of escape (unless going over the rail for a 25-30' drop is considered an option)... AMBUSH GTFOGTFOGTFOGTFO.. so on and so forth.
Not sure exactly how fast or how far I was flying along the street, my speedometer passed 70mph on its way back down to something sane (I was able to get out of knee-jerk-reaction-mode when I saw other traffic ahead).
So, I have no idea anymore, if I knew back then what I know now, would I have still joined the Army? There's no real answer besides specualtion. It makes me fond of the days before I knew the intangible costs of war. It makes me proud to have served, and to be able to give those going in some kind of 'leg-up'. For me, if I were to pick a phrase that define me now, "Jade is a Shade of Green," is it.
Not sure exactly how fast or how far I was flying along the street, my speedometer passed 70mph on its way back down to something sane (I was able to get out of knee-jerk-reaction-mode when I saw other traffic ahead).
So, I have no idea anymore, if I knew back then what I know now, would I have still joined the Army? There's no real answer besides specualtion. It makes me fond of the days before I knew the intangible costs of war. It makes me proud to have served, and to be able to give those going in some kind of 'leg-up'. For me, if I were to pick a phrase that define me now, "Jade is a Shade of Green," is it.
