to those and that you love, and head off into the unknown, is a huge and painful thing, that most just can’t do.<\/p>\n
It takes a specific type to be a road warrior, and I have done so now for so long that I do not remember any other life. I know I’ll be back, as do the ones I love. Wild horses could not keep me from returning to those other pieces of my heart. <\/p>\n
Still, sunday night as I loaded my bag in the truck and pulled out of the driveway I thought of those other road warriors who never made it home. Secure in the knowledge that their own beds were just a couple hours of annoying airline flight away, their worlds were destroyed as they looked on in horror. <\/p>\n
Human life is not precious except to it’s lovers and posessors. To those who don’t care, life is worthless and precarious. <\/p>\n
So as I drove in the gathering dark, I prayed for all those road warriors who never made it home. I prayed that the stupidity that caused their deaths would be obliterated from the world. <\/p>\n
I know better than that, of course. Stupidity is far more abundant in the universe than Hydrogen. Nothing will stop it, it may even be an intrinsic component of entropy. <\/p>\n
None of that knowledge makes me want for it not to stop, though. A guy has to have dreams. And a lone road warrior, on deserted country backroads in the middle of Indiana, well, sometimes dreams are enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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