DEATH AND FEAR You know, once you’ve thought you were going to die a few times,

DEATH AND FEAR

You know, once you’ve thought you were going to die a few times, it’s pretty liberating. Life is something to enjoy. To experience. To consume. Death is something you recognize, and try to avoid, but once you’ve made peace with it, it’s something that you no longer fear.

Now, it takes a long time to get over every episode for some reason. I don’t know how the men on patrol do it. But it takes a year or more for me every time. My friends overseas are tougher than I’ll ever be.

But it does give you a very different perspective on threats. Because when you aren’t afraid of dying, risk is just another experience to enjoy.

At least from my perspective, it feels like, if fear is a weapon, then:

“I’m not locked in here with you; You’re locked in here with me!”

🙂