Crumpled Notebook

So, I’ve been unpacking, right? You find interesting stuff when you do that. I was flipping through a notebook to determine whether to trash it or not and found this. It looks like the intro to a speech I was working on for a class I was taking during my last few months working at the jail. If I remember correctly, I think I scrapped it and gave a speech for the class on something else. Anyway, here it is:

It was the day I’d waited for most of my life. I had just sworn that I’d never been part of a duel and was now a sworn law enforcement officer in the state of Kentucky. Maybe it wasn’t exactly as I had imagined. I had assumed it would always be in the context of being a police officer or federal agent, not a corrections officer. But it was an important step in achieving my dreams, I figured. Besides, I still had a badge and was allowed to carry a gun if I wanted. That’s what I had figured it was all about.

That’s it. I don’t know what came next, or what was supposed to come next. Probably something about how that really wasn’t what it was about in the long run. I also jotted down the names of some of the kids from the jail that perhaps would have been part of what I was writing. Who knows?