Living at the edges of awesome and terrible
1 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Sunday, October 22 at Sunday, October 22, 2006.
In terms of cutting edge experiences, some guy probably went skydiving today, and drove home in his Ferrari to a threesome that his attractive Lebanese girlfriend had spent all day organising. That dude is in the leading 5% of the good life.
And then, on the other end, there is this poor bastard, who was imprisoned and tortured by the Taliban in Afganistan, for being a suspected US sympathiser - and then when the Taliban guards fled his prison, the invading US forces imprisoned and tortured him all over again for being a suspected Al Qaida terrorist.
And then, on the other end, there is this poor bastard, who was imprisoned and tortured by the Taliban in Afganistan, for being a suspected US sympathiser - and then when the Taliban guards fled his prison, the invading US forces imprisoned and tortured him all over again for being a suspected Al Qaida terrorist.
"Arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan in January 2000, Rahim says al-Qaida leaders burned him with cigarettes, smashed his right hand, deprived him of sleep, nearly drowned him and hanged him from the ceiling until he "confessed" to spying for the United States.U.S. forces took the young Kurd from Syria into custody in January 2002 after the Taliban fled his prison. Accusing him of being an al-Qaida terrorist, U.S. interrogators deprived him of sleep, threatened him with police dogs and kept him in stress positions for hours, he says. He's been held ever since as an enemy combatant....."
Life can be great in ways many will never experience, but life can suck, harder than most of us can imagine. Being in the middle isn't so bad....
The middle is awesome ... and the top is even better depending on what makes you happy. For me - knowing this weekend I don't have to take my laptop home and I am going to one kick ass Halloween party is enough.
Some people leave through a lot, the torture and horror indescribable. And others have it easy and don't know it and act like they are being tortured. Jerks.
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