"Delay does not react well with reactivity."
First of all. Sorry for my absence. The path ive chosen leaves me little time to write to you, so ill make the most of it. For the last few months, ive been out doing things ive never thought id do, Going places id only imagined and learning thing that will flood my heart with a better understanding of the world itself. I wont preach of american globalization or anything of that nature. Its not my place, nor shall it ever be. Those conversations are best left for a good bottle of wine and even better company. What i will say is that we, as a nation, have a fantastic lifestyle. We spent a lot of time in Bahrain in my travels to the middle east. For those of you that dont know, its a small island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia and a stones throw from Iraq and Iran. The people tolerate us out of necessity, and for that ill be forever grateful. Its a very interesting change of pace there. Things are slower, time is taken, so for us it would seem as if they are lazy or something like that. One thing i found particularly interesting is they're protection of religion. Taking pictures of almost everything is forbidden, especially the mosques. Personally, i wanted to see an actual mosque in the middle east, but never had the opportunity. (hopefully next time.) Seeing as how a majority of my work is in the Middle East, i was more than overjoyed to be head to Asia next. The beautiful city of Hong Kong had much more to offer than i expected. To be honest, id almost put it up there as one of my favorite places to visit....almost. I indulged my little fat asian kid inside and ate as much Ramen as possible. Plus a number of other things that im sure id never eaten before. Aside from food, the one thing i really took from HK was my visit to a small buddhist temple inside the city. I popped a squat on a bench in front of it and watched people stop by, breaking from their daily routines to pray to buddha. In a way, i was almost jealous. i barely find the time to shave in the morning. The next stop i willfully omit from this post. Guam is its own beast in itself and we will just leave it at that. Back to Hawaii....
Words cant accurately describe the feeling you get the first time you pull into homeport, weary from months at sea, to see hundreds of people cheering your return. Those last few minutes, everyone pushes out as much work as they can to make liberty call come faster. You feel an overwhelming sense of happiness, just from pulling into port. You'd figure one would feel a sense of relief from getting back. Ive found it more of a distraction from my troubled mind. As usual, ive got someone on my mind, and as usual its the same person. Caught playing a cat and mouse game with myself, paralyzed by the same old antics, its a small relief to be able to concentrate on something else than her. distance is a real bitch sometimes. Ill turn my head and cover my eyes as fire engulfs the sky, but ill be fine. Im always fine.
First of all. Sorry for my absence. The path ive chosen leaves me little time to write to you, so ill make the most of it. For the last few months, ive been out doing things ive never thought id do, Going places id only imagined and learning thing that will flood my heart with a better understanding of the world itself. I wont preach of american globalization or anything of that nature. Its not my place, nor shall it ever be. Those conversations are best left for a good bottle of wine and even better company. What i will say is that we, as a nation, have a fantastic lifestyle. We spent a lot of time in Bahrain in my travels to the middle east. For those of you that dont know, its a small island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia and a stones throw from Iraq and Iran. The people tolerate us out of necessity, and for that ill be forever grateful. Its a very interesting change of pace there. Things are slower, time is taken, so for us it would seem as if they are lazy or something like that. One thing i found particularly interesting is they're protection of religion. Taking pictures of almost everything is forbidden, especially the mosques. Personally, i wanted to see an actual mosque in the middle east, but never had the opportunity. (hopefully next time.) Seeing as how a majority of my work is in the Middle East, i was more than overjoyed to be head to Asia next. The beautiful city of Hong Kong had much more to offer than i expected. To be honest, id almost put it up there as one of my favorite places to visit....almost. I indulged my little fat asian kid inside and ate as much Ramen as possible. Plus a number of other things that im sure id never eaten before. Aside from food, the one thing i really took from HK was my visit to a small buddhist temple inside the city. I popped a squat on a bench in front of it and watched people stop by, breaking from their daily routines to pray to buddha. In a way, i was almost jealous. i barely find the time to shave in the morning. The next stop i willfully omit from this post. Guam is its own beast in itself and we will just leave it at that. Back to Hawaii....
Words cant accurately describe the feeling you get the first time you pull into homeport, weary from months at sea, to see hundreds of people cheering your return. Those last few minutes, everyone pushes out as much work as they can to make liberty call come faster. You feel an overwhelming sense of happiness, just from pulling into port. You'd figure one would feel a sense of relief from getting back. Ive found it more of a distraction from my troubled mind. As usual, ive got someone on my mind, and as usual its the same person. Caught playing a cat and mouse game with myself, paralyzed by the same old antics, its a small relief to be able to concentrate on something else than her. distance is a real bitch sometimes. Ill turn my head and cover my eyes as fire engulfs the sky, but ill be fine. Im always fine.
