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Michael Martin
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sorted byMy way of saying there should be no "what if's" in life; you live, learn, move on... there should be no "what ifs" when things happen, only "what now"
Something that was sent to me years ago when I was still in Iraq; figured I'd share it
Basically, this is a soldier sitting in Iraq during downtime, and this is a description that pretty much is him trying to put everything in a positive, light-hearted tone. The contrast here is between the hard, dusty Iraqi landscape and the meadows he envisions in his mind. He lets his mind take him away from the hell he's in, only to have reality come biting back down on him right as he was truly getting away. The problem is, you never truly get away from it...