Long Memories #sundayrepost Have you ever been in one of those situations where things could have easily gone differently? You know, those times when looking back on it you were really lucky to survive? Let me tell you, once it happens to you a few times you start looking at #life a lot differently. When it happens the first time it doesn't affect you so much. You're young, carefree like the wind. It gives you a fright, but you move on from it pretty quickly. The second time it happens you get shaken up a bit, but you still move on quick enough. The third or fourth time is pretty bad. You're older, it takes a while to get over it. Eventually, you get a grip on yourself and you go back to whatever you do with a promise to yourself to be more careful. When it keeps happening to you, your outlook on #life begins to change. You start to wonder if other people go through this too. You wonder if there's some reason that you keep surviving. It starts to get even more dangerous. You keep finding yourself in these situations, but now you almost expect to survive. That's when it finally catches up with most people. I must have cheated death about fifteen times by now. I used to think I was lucky. I don't think so anymore. If I was lucky, I wouldn't be in here. I would be out there, still cheating death. If I was lucky, I would probably have stacks of gold by now, no enemies, and she would still be with me. You have a lot of time to think about things in here. Sometimes I think I have lost the last seven years of my #life. I always used to think that way. Recently, I've started to flip it another way. What if I just gained the rest of my #life? How do I know there would have been seven years out there? I like that thought. It's not a bad trade, really. All I know now is, when I get out of here I'm starting again. Fresh page, new leaf. I'll go somewhere else, somewhere pretty far from here and see what happens. There's some old bastards with long memories out there, and I don't want to get dragged into all that shit again. Tomorrow is the last you'll ever see of me.