Awakening

It's been a while since my last post. Quite a while, as a matter of fact. Been quite busy lately, between work and my thesis, which I'm a little behind on. But lately, I've realized something, which may seem odd, since its taken for granted by most of us - it's that time is really passing by quickly.

Sometimes, it takes a few events to occur in your life in order to shake the living shit out of you, and provide you with a helpful bitch slap across the face. I've spent the last year confused, and encountering difficulty in my thesis, and let me say - a Master's thesis is no joke. It's a serious, deep research project which will test your abilities to the ends of both your patience and sanity. I've been grappling with ways in which to define both terrorism and the al Qaeda group for the better part of the last year. Trust me, if you think you know how to define it academically in less than a 30 second explanation - you don't. I know you think you do, but trust me, you don't.

On the other hand, I've come to realize that I only have a limited amount of time to finish what I'm doing. Time is against me, and in less than 2 year's time, I'll need to consider the fact that I'll be well on my way to doing something else with my life. So, right now is the time I gotta get these things done. If not, I may not ever have the time to do these things again, if ever.

If this seems like an exercise in trying to remind myself of certain things, rather than to enlighten others, it could be that you're right. But on the other hand, sometimes you need to see shit written down before you can really have it sink in.

Moral of the story is: Take a shit or get off the toilet seat - get 'er done!