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Monday, March 01, 2004 I was worried that my downcast mood the last week would affect my work performance this week. Instead I was surprised to find that it had gifted me with a sense of serenity. Things that made me depressed at work no longer shook me as much today. None of the difficulties and grievances I encounter in camp can compare to the loss of a precious relationship. It is a fresh new look at life, at what really matters. Colleagues, I'll have hundreds in my lifetime. Acquaintances, thousands. A girl like JY, I might never meet ever again. What hurt can a few unfriendly colleagues cause me when I've experienced the hurt of giving up someone priceless? Why should I let what they say or do bother me? But enough about that for today. Today I had to postpone my first dinner date with a girl in almost 2 years. I had not seen my jie for months, so I proposed dinner with her today. But my RSM had other ideas for me on this Monday and first day of March. My bunk is a famous pigsty, one into which even pigs would hesitate to step. The SAF is partly to blame for trying to stuff 20+ 3SGs into a bunk built for 8. My RSM chose do broach the issue today of all days, with the end result being a stand-by-bed at 2100 hours, and no 3SG allowed to book out before that. Even though this was eventually relaxed to a 1900 stand-by-bunk conducted by a comparatively lenient warrant officer, it totally ruined my dinner date. My earlier-mentioned serenity helped me get over this calmly, for the usual me would have whined about it incessantly to anyone who cared to listen. On a side note, my bunkmates and I near broke our backs transforming our pigsty into a five-star hotel bunk. We even made radical changes to our feng shui. The end result amazed concerned specialists, warrants and officers who popped by to give us encouragement. I was amazed myself at the end of it. My bunk actually looked habitable!
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