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Suck it up. Better be uncomfortable than dead. Then you’ll feel nothing.
When I was in basic training they shot us up with the typhoid vaccine, and while many had no symptoms, I went through the whole disease OVERNIGHT. By the morning, I had no fever, but during the night I had everything, and my insides were rumbling like an earthquake for hours. Got the vaccine around 4 in the afternoon, by 8pm I was sick. By 6am I felt like a cloud was lifting, and got up, dressed and showed up in the line. But I never forgot that night.
Don’t know why they did that. Maybe because they could. Never liked being there. Knowing that you are just a number, a cog no one cares about, is not pleasant. You are to be used. And I did not choose to be there. I had to. It was winter in the Greek mountains, and the tips of my ears were raw and bleeding. When some guys not in basic training went outside, we had them buy vaseline to put on our ears. Nothing as energizing as sweeping with ....brooms the length of a runway on top of a plateau in 30 degrees with the wind howling, and no coats. Or moving a mountain of dirt back to the place where the guys before us had moved it from.
Or the time I had food poisoning and fever, crouched on the ground, as I was supposed to be guarding a spot from 1 to 4:30 am, throwing up all around that kiosk.
I got out on April 30th. Woke up morning of May first, a beautiful spring day in Athens, got in the car, alone, and went for a ride down towards the Acropolis, smell the air and scream FREEDOM out of my lungs. I so hated that life of dependence on a bunch of idiots. But, I also look back fondly on some of it, especially realizing how strong we are when we have to be. Survival is a serious business, and the feeling is incredible.
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