Glance back to look ahead

"I started this blog as an outlet for transition. The goal has always been to document the change in a soldier’s life from being a rigid and structured machine of obeisance to an educated and freethinking do-gooder with a unique history. It’s been a while since I “DX’d” my rucksack for a nifty REI backpack but I still find myself attached to the world I’ve left behind. No matter how many times I try to bury the past, I find myself digging the same hole, as a crutch or lean-to for support, in conversations and writings because it is what I know and what I am familiar with. What I’ve never wanted to be has suddenly become the thing I am (was). I accept that it is inescapable as the truth because it is the truth. And now, what else is there? I want to build a new future disconnected from the past and I think it’s going to start somewhere in here."
Rucksack to Backpack