10 years ago

10 years ago today I was in Cap Haitian, Haiti. At the airport there actually. Sitting in my team's humvee with my team, guarding the airport. Heat. Humidity. No showers. No flush toilets. No hot food (not that it wasn't hot enough to make the MREs hot, but you know what I mean).

While I was there it was the longest 4 months of my life. At least it seemed like it. Now it has been gone almost 10 years since I've been there. I've gotten out of the Army, gotten divorced, come out as a lesbian, went to college and gotten my BSChE. . .the years have been full of experiences. Sky diving. Learning to ride a motorcycle. My first kiss with a girl.

10 years. That is twice as long as I was in the Army. Another experience I thought would never end at the time. I couldn't believe it when I graduated college with my engineering degree. Another experience I thought wouldn't end. Now I'm at my first engineering job, and I'm taking it all in. I realize that time flies by, and to savor the time we have doing whatever it is we are doing. You have to make experiences happen, they just won't come to you.

10 years since I was deployed to Haiti. ::sigh::