Real Life is hard
I don't usually make personal posts (cuz I was raised by stoics we try not to whine about our problems to anyone) but this time I'm making an exception because I need to talk about this. Right now my Uncle a Military Police corporal with the Canadian Peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan is experiencing his first twenty four hours in Kandahar. I realize now I had no idea how much this was going to affect me, even vaguely related stuff like Gallant the ER character who died in Iraq is making me want to cry. I drove by the air force base my uncle flew out yesterday and I wanted to cry. I want to watch the news even though I hate the news but I don't because I know odds are it will make me cry. So I remind myself that he will be fine, more of our guys come home fine than those who run into trouble over there(if this isn't true please don't tell me otherwise I need to believe it right now) and besides he served in Bosnia and Cyprus and knows what he's doing.