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Once upon a time, i found myself relaxing somewhere between tranquility and desolation, in the mental paradise of Serenity, while enjoying a glass of simplicity kept fresh by a few icy cubes of lonliness, and all the while, contemplating the sunset of Oppertunity, and wondering if the gentle wind of intuition was trying to tell me something...

Now things of this world aren't meant to last, and my contentment, like all good things, had to end. So i set off with my servant, Denial, as well as a faithful crew of Arrogance, Ignorance, and the ghost called Past to escape from the enemy within. Far to many months and miles later, having lost all my crew but the ghost called Past to a fiend known as Truth, i came to betray my faithful servant, Denial. It was the end of an era, but for every ending, there's a begining.

So i found myself as a lost man; a rebel without a cause. The age old sin of pride had been torn away enough that i was finally able to accept that my greatest loss had been engineered by myself alone. Pride may go before a fall, but the fall can mercifully take the pride down with you. And so deep in the ash of defeat, hope finds fertile ground. Where once stood satisfaction; now there stands only a memory; a vague dream. But as long as Pride is held in check, dreams may be enough...



...but all whimsey aside, i'm just another guy. A soldier by profession, a smartass by nature, and an optimist by habit. I suppose i'm still young by most standards, but my life has been a good one. I've put in an honest day's work under the sun. I've been taught by experience and lived to tell the tale. I've been called "hero" by the very people i'd call heros. I've paid for both pride and trust and continued to dream. I've looked out my own back window over a New England vinyard. I've heard "Fortunate Son" played in a combat zone. And i've lost count of the times i've been told i think to much. I am far from perfect, but i'm not to worried about that. Michael Fox stated it best when he said; "Excellence i can reach for, perfection is god's buisness." While my thoughts on God are a story for another day, i'd have to agree with the basic idea. I will constantly strive to be better, but that very pursuit is what i live for... Excellence is not so much a goal as it is a refrence point; i aim at it and care only that i don't stray to far from the path.

So that is my own take on this "me" guy. By all means, however, judge for yourself.

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