April 8, 2007

• Reality Check

  Just read some LJ journal entries from some old friends in the East, who were my friends from the day I joined the SCA.  Way back when, they were some of the most beautiful people I knew (young and pretty and enthusiastic and sweet and intelligent . . .).   Somewhere along they way they all grew up while I lived my life a thousand miles away.  If you’re ever tempted to take the SCA too seriously, just spend a minute thinking about real life and death.  My  young friend is now a (not so very young) law enforcement officer.  This weekend, his ladies spent some amount of time (endless) watching CNN news feeds, wondering and hoping desperately that he was not the officer killed in a shootout.  He wasn’t, thank the gods, but it does kinda put things in perspective, doesn’t it? 

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