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Homo Sapien
March Madness Challenge: Least Favorite Green Animal or Fish!
Response to Keeley Schroder’s March Challenge.
Let’s try this again!
What is my LEAST favorite green animal. (I misread this challenge.)
I am, by classification, an animal, primate, Homo, Sapien species. There have been several times in my life when I’ve felt green, either with sickness, or envy. Most times envy.
I can recount each of the times, which is sad by anyone’s perspective. It happens here occasionally, when I read another post, and think to myself, I want to write that way, have something astounding to say, or write so beautifully. But for the most part turning green was a youthful experience.
It was those times I least like myself.
Having served nine years in the RAF, my dream was to become a ‘front line’* pilot. I was trained to fly the VTOL* Harrier Mk1. For six years I studied to become one of the best. My class had seventeen other students wanting the same. Two made it through. Green doesn’t even begin to explain the disappointment and envy I felt.
“feeling of mortification and ill-will occasioned by the contemplation of superior advantages possessed by another,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
That definition sums it up. I had envisaged living the life of a flyer but left after nine years. Even today I have not got rid of the feeling of failing my exam. But other failures have been added, that of being a protective husband and father. Today I envy my son, wishing I been the kind of man he has become.
Today, I’m hoping to become the next Earnest Hemingway every time I read the man, and that Brett Jenae Tomlin woman, I want to kill her, smoke her, and blow her away!
Not that I’m green with envy, you understand. (A little greenish, kind of thing.)
*Fighter pilot
*VTOL Vertical Take-Off & Landing
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Participants:
Adrienne Beaumon, Autistic Widower (“AJ”), Brett Jenae Tomlin, The Sturg, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Richard Bailey, Marilyn Flower, Trisha Faye, Karen Schwartz, NancyO, Robert G. Longpré — [he/him] — Canadian métis, Katie Michaelson, Bernie Pullen, Laure Dorsemaine, Debika Kumari, Michelle Jimerson Morris, redkitewrites, Celia McKinley, Charisse Tyson, Julie KingGood, Amy Frances, Julia A. Keirns, Ravyne Hawke, Pamela Oglesby, Toni the Talker, Cathy Cremer, Tina, Kayla Tackett, Pat Romito LaPointe, C Cap1, Anna Itzel Cazita, K., Brandon, Misty Rae, Karen Hoffman, Deb Palmer, Susie Winfield, Vincent Pisano, Paari, Marlene Samuels
Here’s just a few entries to enjoy:
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