Stuck

Still stuck in Kuwait, waiting for my flight back to the "Stan." They try their best to make Kuwait as bearable as possible with around the clock amenities, but it's still painful to anxiously sit and wait, hoping that they call your number so you can return to the groove sooner than later. I sat next to a Major for part of my flight from the states, and I couldn't believe my ears when he said he envied the people that "deployed" to Kuwait for their rotations.

The wait has given me some time to trudge through an awesome book - Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." As I was reading it on my flight into Key West, the flight attendant warned me not to finish the book, saying that I'd never be satisfied. In a way, that's what I think it's about...not being satisfied...never giving up, feeding the drive, trying to improve, produce and grow - a part of the human spirit that I absolutely appreciate and believe in. Although I don't believe every tenet of Ayn Rand's philosophy ("objectivism"), she definitely captures the essence of the human spirit in her writing, and it's an amazing, highly recommended book to read. At the same time it's definitely a tough, deep book to read; one where you need to take a break and really digest each sentence or paragraph from time to time. Needless to say, it's tough to feed my restless spirit in a place like Kuwait, so I'm anxious to get on the flight back to Shank.