272/365 05/21/2026

The reactions I have gotten over the years have sometimes been shocking: my extended family stunned, then enraged when I sacrificed my own father to save a town cowering in the shadow of a rumbaing volcano. A platoon aghast after I shot their sergeant and tossed his body to be consumed by pirañas so we could ford a river and complete the mission. 

I just don’t get them. And I suppose they don’t get me. But in my mind, it’s simple…