Second Honeymoon Weekend
2006-02-17 @ 10:43 a.m.

Didn't fall out yesterday, but training was slackened anyway because of the scorching sun. For the first time since I enlisted, Tekong was put on heat alert. Was also listening to Chris Tomlin yesterday and thinking about how much I miss going to church. Haven't gone down for two weeks, and I really need to see faces that are completely unconnected with NS. I'm starting to become just like everyone else in here, which is kind of disturbing because I've never changed myself just to fit in with a group of people. I think it's time to start detaching myself, to sift out the friends that I want to keep after March 7. "Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows." That's from Coelho's By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept. A somewhat clunky title, but that has little bearing on the veracity of the statement. I find it to be incredibly true, at least initially, but perhaps that stage ought not to wear the label "love" but "infatuation" instead. Something I read in Today yesterday struck me as being a realistic way of approaching love. Love, the columnist wrote, is constantly making the same choice despite the existence of alternatives. I hope you're all making the right choice everyday.