Bro hug ((Gordie)) Almost a year ago I wrote the "I Give Up" letter to my W.
I've added The Art of War by Sun Tzu to my reading list. It's considered one of the classic works in strategy and conflict. I don't know if you've read it or not. I'm hoping that it will give me some insights into how to deal with goals.
I can't help but to colour your words and actions with my own from last year. I think that there comes a time in an endeavour where despite Duty, Honour and Pride where you have to recognize that which you are fighting for, which you have bled for, which you would have been willing to die for, that it's not there any more. The you know that it is time to hang up your spurs, put down the sword and buckler and walk away.
But we can walk away with our heads held high in that we did what we did for something that we truly believed in. Just because we didn't achieve the goals that first set us on this path, doesn't mean that the fight wasn't worth fighting. We did it because it was Right for us to do it.
In the next while you may find yourself questioning "was any of the past really real?" I know that I did and others suggested that question to me. My answer is that the past as I saw it was real to me. And that's all that matters.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
