Saturday, February 11, 2006
For those who know me or regularly read any of my stuff, you'll know I'm definitely anti-war. Anti anything related to war whether all the way from thick minded politicians or soldiers being a/ stupid, b/ abusive, c/ insane, to terrorists who should be whacked a thousand times over for even remotely considering that blowing up a bunch of people is the path to peace.
I even dreaded being picked for conscription. Even my DAD faked being insane to get out of his own conscription. His mother helped......dad is such a coddled child...
I simply cannot understand why anyone wants to be in the army...short of being in forced conscription. Your life is constantly threatened, you're working grueling hours, and basically your job is to kill people....-.-
Then came the onslaught on soldiers in my life. Friends....people I cared about, who I respected....and yet definitely....a soldier...in an army.
It's scary. It's like...wow.....there are those who chose to go in, those who didn't but enjoying it, and those who hated it but still it's a apart of their life, and since I didn't hate them....I can't very well say I hate what they are a part of.
Well....perhaps I can, but they respect what they do and they are proud of it for whatever reasons. And simply that, that requires recognition.
They are young and promising, with a wicked sense of humour and personality, direct and honest, great to talk to, with this oh..sweet gentle side and I can't imagine logging into KGS without talking to everyone of them atleast once.
And as I sat in the car today I was thinking.....there'll come a time when one of them won't be on KGS anymore, because they'll be gone....hurt somewhere, even dead....and I wouldn't know....
that really scares me....
There's V chan- who was there from the beginning. We used to with the whole Sabaki gang talk on Skype...well, they would talk and play music while I listen xD
We used to have private convos too, when he'll play anime songs. Recently he's back on the net and omg, so much fun talking to him again. He's been conscripted into the Israeli army. Now he knows how to work a rifle gun or whatever it is, big huge chunky thingy.....he's travelling from home in the weekends and the camp for the week, and grown nicely. Also training to be a paramedic in the army.
Mukoji MukMuk- who's in the American army, currently based in Germany and has served in 'peacekeeping' in the Iraq war. And the fact he allows me to call him Mukmuk already settled several major points for him ^^. He can be abrasive occasionally and is darn proud of it *mumbles* but also sweet and sensitive and loving and bloody skipped 10 ranks by purposely playing dan players o.0
He also verily defended his position in the army....I'm not really sure if he believed in why they were doing it but he's proud of his commitment.
GoNinja ninjaninja- I think he was the first onto which I latched a double name....hence the beginnings of Ninjaninja, Samsamsam, Mukmuk....and the one who really just pushing me to get back into Go. Ninja is amazing. So persistent and occasionally for one moment giving you this glimpse of a young guy who's all excited about go and wanting to really improve, and the next moment, he's a real man, like actually, who's giving advices and reassuring me about uni....altho, everyone reassures me about uni, but just him, you know? I feel I can talk to and get a shoulder to lean on and it's great. And he's in the Canadian naval reserve.
There's someone else but I think he said it in confidence so I won't mention a name but he trained as a sniper during his conscription. I can't imagine anyone more gentle than him....and he's a bonafide trained sniper. He doesn't like it, but it's like .....a part of him and it's so wonderful to see the person he is. People are people....no matter their past and it just makes him so beautifully interesting.
Also starkly the fact that being a soldier isn't all of who they are.
They are also great go players *winks*
And the bestest friends you can find ever.
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 12:41 AM
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