Monday Night Write: "Smile, you are going to war"

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All anyone talks about now-a-days is war. Not “a” war or “the” war, but just war in general. To tell you truth, I don’t think I can take it. They have had us juicing up with these drugs that make us crave war, to crave that battlefield experience, and I think they… whoever “they” is now, have been putting it in the water or something too. I stopped taking my dose about 1 week ago, and I regret every moment of it. There is no happiness for me outside of war. There is no hope. I look around and all I see is this new drug for this or that, and people watching the daily war feeds, or old war movies. I fear one day we are going to reach a tipping point, where we do not have enough enemies to fight, and begin to kill ourselves. And maybe we deserve it. I can see the faces of the innocent that I have killed. I can remember the ecstasy I felt with every life I took, but where are those feelings now? In the water or in the pills? Maybe I should take my “medicine” and be happy. “Smile, you are going to war!” they say, and then put the needle in your neck. But at least it’s better than the pain. The guilt. Maybe this time, I will take a lead pill, and smile, because the war, for me anyway, is finally over.