Celaena in General
- April 5, 2019, 2:26 a.m.
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I was going through my files, trying to find something to submit as an example of my writing. I will confess. I don’t think this sucks.
In most things in life you don’t really have a choice. And of those things we perceive as free will are often nothing more than a series of random happenings and reactions. In the end we intellectualize and justify our behavior so we can tell ourselves on those cold dark lonely nights that we did what we did for a reason.
Often, the only difference between free will and a simple reaction to events is seconds. The phone call when you are already talking, or the battery of your cell phone has died.
How fast you accelerated away from the intersection that determines whether you arrive at the next intersection with a green or red light - which then determines who is idling beside you, which distracts you when the next call comes and determines where you are going for the night.
The sip of coffee a tactical controller takes, missing the fact that four tactical jets closing at almost one thousand knots aren’t at their assigned altitudes.
The frustration as a pilot looks down again for just a second too long, trying to find something on his kneeboard that isn’t there.
The glance across a crowded bar on a Navy payday happy hour Friday.
A second is all it takes to set up a sequence of events that leaves you in a reality that you once didn’t think was possible, of which you couldn’t conceive.
Once upon a time…
Deleted user ⋅ April 05, 2019
It’s very good !