The small things

[Auzgurl]

I find the things that most impact in my life comes from the small things..One other I realised just recently during a blackout caused by a lightening storm


I love it when a power failure plunges the world into complete darkness , something so peaceful about not having a TV and computers glaring for a few hours.

I also notice how the noise levels reduce by 80%, the darkness is somehow very soothing calming, a pause in a otherwise frantic life.

There is no noise from outside traffic, everything that relies on energy to 'hum ,beep ,crank and bustle'.. just silence, peaceful release.

The world goes quiet.


Do you have a small thing you celebrate , esp one you have recentley discovered?

[JW.Frogen]

Yes, I know what you are talking about.

During the First Gulf War I was in one of the first units sent out to Saudi Arabia as a bluff to Saddam, "here is the line in the sand" if you will. Go no further.

When we got out there our only water source was from a portable thing we called a water buffalo. The water temperature was below the outside temperature, which was anywhere from 40% to 45%, but in that kind of heat warm water is like pissing all over your leg. There is no pleasure in it.

Anyway as time went on more and more troops got out there, soon there was a tent city and one day I saw a Marine with ice. I yelled out in amazment"where did you get that?", and he said there was a new ice machine in the galley tent.

I ran to that place faster than I have anywhere and I can tell you.

I have never had a better drink of water or anything else ever since. That cold ice was like a lost dream.

That ice could have been diamonds as far as I was concerned.

I have never forgotten that ice.

[Auzgurl]

Scenes from the movie Gallipolli ran thru my head as I read that Frogen ..you were the very hot Mel Gibson with legs like 'steel springs ' : )

[AiA in Atlanta]

Do you have a small thing you celebrate , esp one you have recentley discovered?

Your husband's cock.

[boxy]

In that type of dry heat, any water is far from like pissing on your own leg.

But this thread is more about humping a leg, eh Auzgurl

[JW.Frogen]

Well you would be ill advised to turn any water down in that prolonged exposure to heat that is for sure, indeed instinct and survival insures the thought will never cross your mind, but there is a huge difference between necessity and pleasure.

And that ice water was pure pleasure.

[JW.Frogen]

It is sort of like the difference between masterbating while in boot camp and then the first sex you have with a beautiful woman when you leave.

But that experience should be for a thread titled 'The Big Things".

[JW.Frogen]

Another one was when I was in Bosnia. Our headquarters was actually in Naples Italy, I was put up in a very nice hotel, had a car, more money on per diem than I could spend but then I would to fly into Bosnia to coordinate humanitarian relief and to report back on the situation.

On one trip to Sarajevo the suffering the place really got to me, at that time it seemed completely hopeless. On the flight back I was really black. Lost in an intense feeling of despair. I got back to my hotel room, showered and hit the mini bar. Then I went to the hotel bar to socialise and cheer up, it did not work.

So I just drove around with no destination in mind and I ended up in a place called Vomero, there are spectacular views up there of the bay, Vesuvius and the city below.

I got out and sat on the hood of my car nursing a bad Italian beer and then suddenly this feeling of joy just washed over me.

Below me was a thriving, noisy, lively city. Life was going on, and in on of the most beautiful settings on Earth.

Life was going on.

And at that moment I was in rapture to be a part of it all.

[Hebe]

I can't top that, but we had so much rain this winter that all these flowers I didn't even know I had came live and flowered all over the place - and our tree fern came back to life after many years.

Also, just getting home at the end of the day, when work is so awful at present, and feeling glad to be home, and welcome - it hasn't always been the case.

[Auzgurl]

I love it that a random act of kindness by a stranger one day restored my faith in human nature.

I had been travelling on a very hot summers day about 2 years ago, limping along in my old car would have been more like it, when suddenly it just stopped dead..steam gushing out from under the hood.
I took a look and depaired.

Here I was 200 kilometres from home,with 2 hot complaining kids and broken down.

About 20 minutes later a wheat truck pulled up beside my car. A dark haired man of about 45-50 took a look at our situation and alighted from his truck. He asked if I had any water and saw that I hadnt, with that he took a can from his truck and proceeded to walk down the road ..

A while later ( maybe 2 hours )he re appeared walking down the road with the can and began to fill the now cooled radiator. He stayed long enough to see if I could get the car started and was on his way with barely a word spoken the whole time since I'd first seen him [ except to tell me not to secure the radiator cap right the way down to reduce pressure build up].
He was a shy and awkward, unassuming Australian man. He had walked 2 hours in scorching heat to help us and Ill never forget that day.


I know nothing of him except that he lived in a small wheat town about 50 ks back..I wanted to thank him for his kindness , but he was already behind on his wheat run and he had already gone.

There are few rare men like that left in the world .