Sacrifice, honor, courage, commitment, class, grace, endearing, and brave. The preceding terminolgy for decription are earned through blood, sweat, and tears. The frequently eternal costs accrued to the Armed Forces is the human capital of the past, present, and future veteran. This is incalculable when or where presented the human capacity to ascertain, conceptualize, and entirely comprehend.

The eyes close as if trying to thwart the scortching heat of a searing sun. With eyes wide opened in a gaze yielding the reflection of one or a combination of many thousands of thoughts, perceptions, and realities. Photographic imagery puchased seemingly through the exchange of one's soul and through the mirage of truths, lies, misinformation, unknowns, and uncertainties. Visions of horror reflecting the realistic, the here and now, and potential alternatives assault the mind irreverently. Minutes are exchanged for hours, hours subsequently become days turning into weeks, and the blur of it all calculates into years. Ageless reels which often play continuously. There are no deviations no intermissions and more discovery as time and environmental factors torment the mind and sacrifice the soul mercilessly stealing today, tomorrow, family, friends, and professions.

Addiction, routine, or habitual who is qualified to determine which? When or where obsession becomes unhealthy as habit or time consuming as a hobby in happenstance who may become an authority? What is addiction? Is addiction simply some thing, thought process, or action consuming us for a moment? A physical, mental, or emotional exercise as a matter of surroundings which are or become oscillatingly predictable, or randomly occurring stimuli as interactive factors of probability and statistic?

When or where presented the human condition and individual ingenuity, complexities of parallel universal outcomes, and anguishable high and lows what is to become the stabilizer among the combative environments fed by the understood and yet uncomprehended? The stimuli which so frequently attaches itself to the subconscious brings birth through action and life events the unscheduled or unanticipated.

How addiction effects the individual among the whole of society or among separate and uniquely individual surroundings is an exponential factor of probability and statistic and the unmeasurable. Adrenaline, rush, or simply a secret series of successive events presenting effects upon an organization unabsorbed possessing repercussions on the individually personal level as a party set apart or among colliding factors of happenstance is frequently challenging to ascertain as the tangible, when or where the intangible is the immeasurable, as the established status quo is the unchanged possessing no alternative barometer for historical referencing.