re: "European Interlude II"
Lt G at Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal ("Embrace The Suck") asks the most right question of all.
Money quote(s):
"In this post-modern world of war and famine, 24-hour news coverage, and emo music, it’s easy to forget that something as ancient as romance can be true and pure and overwhelming and original and … right"
"(A)fter a rainy day spent bantering underneath umbrellas, I say to hell with it. I love her and I love her now and I know that will not change so what am I waiting for? No sane woman would ever put up with you or a deployment or a mixture of both.
Good thing I’m not attracted to the sane.
Today is so much better than yesterday. And tomorrow is no guarantee. We both know that now."
"(M)ind the house, I’m hunting and gathering here.
Alright. Swiped an example from her jewelry bag to get the right size. Now I need to find a ring shop that takes me seriously, despite my terrorist mutton-chops, baggy plaid shorts, and plain white tee. And no, I don’t speak a lick of Italian. This should be interesting.
It was."
"I’m pretty sure matters like this are pondered over. Let’s ponder.I always said I’d wait until I was 35. Well, after half-a-year in Iraq, I feel like I’m 35. Commitment issues with love don’t really seem like such a big deal after you deal with commitment issues with life.
Okay. Fair enough. It’s a little spontaneous, don’t you think?
Yes. But the best decisions in your existence have been spontaneous. Writing for the school paper. Going to Wake. Becoming a fratdawg.
This is a slightly bigger deal. And by slightly, I mean massively."
"For two weeks, you danced on the blackest edge, and because you don’t listen, made her do it, too. That will not happen again. It’s okay, though. You survived the test, and grew up. It happens to the best of us, even those of us with hero complexes.
Now you know. For sure. For surest’s sure.
Now we wait. For the right moment. The right place. The rightest right."
"Pause at a bench. One last deep breath. Soak in the ivory skin and refined grace and fiery auburn hair and jade ovals and brimming idealism and natural intellect and unrelenting sass that initiated this domino rally of classical romance way back when."
"Even in the internet age, privacy can and should exist. All you need to know is her response:
I absolutely will."
&
"All’s fair. In love and … what’s that last part, again?"
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Hat tip to Eric at Grim's Hall.
Money quote(s):
"In this post-modern world of war and famine, 24-hour news coverage, and emo music, it’s easy to forget that something as ancient as romance can be true and pure and overwhelming and original and … right"
"(A)fter a rainy day spent bantering underneath umbrellas, I say to hell with it. I love her and I love her now and I know that will not change so what am I waiting for? No sane woman would ever put up with you or a deployment or a mixture of both.
Good thing I’m not attracted to the sane.
Today is so much better than yesterday. And tomorrow is no guarantee. We both know that now."
"(M)ind the house, I’m hunting and gathering here.
Alright. Swiped an example from her jewelry bag to get the right size. Now I need to find a ring shop that takes me seriously, despite my terrorist mutton-chops, baggy plaid shorts, and plain white tee. And no, I don’t speak a lick of Italian. This should be interesting.
It was."
"I’m pretty sure matters like this are pondered over. Let’s ponder.I always said I’d wait until I was 35. Well, after half-a-year in Iraq, I feel like I’m 35. Commitment issues with love don’t really seem like such a big deal after you deal with commitment issues with life.
Okay. Fair enough. It’s a little spontaneous, don’t you think?
Yes. But the best decisions in your existence have been spontaneous. Writing for the school paper. Going to Wake. Becoming a fratdawg.
This is a slightly bigger deal. And by slightly, I mean massively."
"For two weeks, you danced on the blackest edge, and because you don’t listen, made her do it, too. That will not happen again. It’s okay, though. You survived the test, and grew up. It happens to the best of us, even those of us with hero complexes.
Now you know. For sure. For surest’s sure.
Now we wait. For the right moment. The right place. The rightest right."
"Pause at a bench. One last deep breath. Soak in the ivory skin and refined grace and fiery auburn hair and jade ovals and brimming idealism and natural intellect and unrelenting sass that initiated this domino rally of classical romance way back when."
"Even in the internet age, privacy can and should exist. All you need to know is her response:
I absolutely will."
&
"All’s fair. In love and … what’s that last part, again?"
-----
Hat tip to Eric at Grim's Hall.
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