She keeps trying to stall me. Keep me from going right away, "Riding your bike home at night, wearing all black? Be really careful."
I want to tell her that's not how I die.
It happens a long time from now when I've outlived most everyone I know. I go out old. Playing chess in the park with Tom... maybe watching my favorite movie.
If it had been a different time or place, I'd have gone out shooting, or swinging a sword; using my fists in a savage display of attempted survival.
Once, I was a warrior.
Not a mindless machine, but a soldier... a tactician... a conquerer. I feel it, the need to scale the mountain. The call to defeat my enemies.
A need... I need something...
A challenge.
I want to tell her that's not how I die.
It happens a long time from now when I've outlived most everyone I know. I go out old. Playing chess in the park with Tom... maybe watching my favorite movie.
If it had been a different time or place, I'd have gone out shooting, or swinging a sword; using my fists in a savage display of attempted survival.
Once, I was a warrior.
Not a mindless machine, but a soldier... a tactician... a conquerer. I feel it, the need to scale the mountain. The call to defeat my enemies.
A need... I need something...
A challenge.
azathoth42:
Go to Amsterdam.