Why Are You Here?

Laura Ashley Says...

Laura Ashley says to me:

What to do, do to what

Go forth and do your duty

It is your duty which precedes over you

People get sick, get wounded, get killed but the duty gets done

And I got bowled over by the profound meaning hidden inside these words.

Commando Marcus just came back from training in Thailand. And the first words that greeted my ears at 0715am in the morning while I’m still sleeping on Monday when he touched down was 4 letters expletives proclaiming he’s back.

Maybe it’s just our nature to trade insults and vulgarities to one another yet we would just shrug it off with a wave and be best of friend at the end of the day. This year would have been marked as the 4^th year of our friendship with several others good buddies. Somehow, you just can’t imagine him being a Commando during our good old times in poly (being such a big artillery cannon as well as wishy washy over matters at times ) but somehow he, along with several others made it and for his Herculean effort, I will give him the respect he deserves for wearing the red beret.

Our NS journey path are so vastly different that he always lamented how he would jolly well exchange places with me so that he would not be required to go outfield while I had always secretly held a desire to go outfield chiong sua with my platoon and men because I believed this is what serving the nation is all about instead of opening/closing gates for vehicles and blah blah blah you get the ideas...

NS has turned me from boy to men. It has also made me appreciate even more the bond created among brudders whom you can count on in times of need.

posted by Immortali @ 12:52 am