Note from the Editor:
Mind-rotting boredom. That’s not something you expect to hear patriots say was a major slice of their time spent serving the nation. 99% of our time, I and many others reported, was extremely boring, though; so many hours were wasted re-cleaning things that were already spotless, inspected, and in perfect condition for training and war. So many ‘fuck-fuck games’ were played back and forth. So many formations were called hours early for no reason. So many missions were dead-ends; we found nothing, and simply sweated and returned home.
That boredom has a way of stimulating incredible internal growth, though; you find ways of keeping yourself and others occupied, sane, even entertained. You come up with games, write journal entries that turn into best-selling books, and even, in my case, draft songs, blueprints, and more. When things got bad from boredom or anything else, I kept turning to my natural creativity, quick wit, and desire to become more fit than I ever was.
At first, this was to stave off the ‘rotting’ part of it all; I had to keep my mind, and the rest of my body, occupied so it wouldn’t atrophy into uselessness. I couldn’t stand the thought of how dangerously close we all were to becoming truly mindless assholes like so many of our higher-ups. For those who didn’t have this wisdom, urge, or pre-military tutoring, the boredom really did rot their minds, and thereby amplified their stupidity, evilness, and dangerous-ness. Had I grown up under slightly different conditions, I very well could have become one of them. Thank the stars my potential got tipped in the other direction.
Since this time, I have reapplied the techniques I learned, discovered, and developed out there in that forbidding desert war-zone and (mental) wasteland. Even when my mind and brain were directly under attack by darker forces than I’d ever encountered overseas, those same techniques for preventing mind-rot worked. I use them to this day.
I suppose that makes me mind-rotting boredom qualified; I passed that grueling of all tests.
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