Alright, I'm still alive after last week...got my haircut, finished my
school, got trashed. How do I feel? Alright, considering I owe $400 in
damages to a car...nothing malicious, just moving things and things
happened...bad things...but the amazing thing was that it cost $350
for a door panel and $50 for the seals...amazing.
Gee, it's such a relief that it's over...
Met heaps of new people since, most of them from MKC, but I didn't
know that they existed till then...! Jake and me had discussed what's
going on from Saturday night, and yea, it's all good...moving right
along...
Weps safety course tonight, should be alright, have to be careful,
Dave's threatening to cold cock anyone who's stupid enough to point a
weapon at him...I don't think my medical insurance covers suicide...
Got a meeting to get to (as opposed to classes), so I'm off.
Who Is The Black Chinaman?
- Nick
- Kuala Belait, Brunei
- Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc
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