Moot Points

Things have been really busy as of late. I have written some posts and planned to write about some others, but all of it is relatively pointless compared to what’s been going on. It’s crazy when you think about the things that are important to you. What point of reference do you use? Then go ahead and change that reference point. Its weird how a simple point of view will automatically change so many things, create so many alternatives. Guilt. Distress. Confusion.

If anyone has been reading the news, we’ve lost over thirty people in the last four days. We’ve had IED’s, always IED’s. There were small arms causalities, vehicle accidents, suicides. Most recently a helicopter crash tallied 12 more.

Chaireborne recently posted some of our enduring few who were among the first to sacrifice this year. I read that list in it’s entirely but once, then I read it individually several times. I read a name and saw a face. Saw a name then read the face. The process confused itself and my recent memory of them ran concurrently with his post as I absorbed it. I’ve met most of the men on that list.

What do you think about? What do you write about? What do you care about? There all related but sometimes the challenge is putting them together. Then again, change the reference point…does any of it really matter?

~Rolligun