and nothing

this morning i was riding to work when it suddenly occurred to me that i had completely forgotten about my 3rd year enlistment anniversary on the 10th of july. something that was once such an important event is now a distant memory hardly worth remembering.

my brother is enlisting this november and although everyone says that national service is getting easier each year, he wouldn't know how easy it is now compared to the past. it doesn't matter how easy it is, because to him it is still going to be the worst shit that he's ever been through.

but in all few years' time it'll be all forgotten.