The last couple semesters before graduating from college and going into the Army I was a member of the LSU theater backstage crew. I now realize it was my escape from thinking about my next stage in life. I had friends from basic training that were dying in Vietnam, as I watched the war protest on campus, and yet I truly wanted to serve my country like my dad in WWII and Korea. All of us live in a tapestry of feelings, relationships, ideas, and dreams stitched together with threads from our past, present and future. The backstage work helped ground me in who I was and in the present, where I worked hard, played hard, laughed and smiled a lot. Focus on today and laugh and smile a lot.
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