Tragedies, Mishaps, and Memorials

The 90 day countdown isn't even two days underway and man has it already been a little mind boggling. I was burning the midnight oil from having had such a productive day on yesterday when my surfing the world wide web produced a link titled "Fallen PCVs", which stands for Fallen Peace Corps Volunteers. The site is dedicated as a memorial to those people who died while serving in their host country. It's filled with their courage, wonderful qualities but also it outlines the tragedies and mishaps that caused their death. It's bitter-sweet and naturally I thought to myself, "Dawn this is yet another possible reality".

So I'm reading names, looking at death years, and perusing over the many causes of deaths. Some volunteers fell to their death naturally, some took illness, some were killed, and some injured severely in accidents. But the overall gist of the site is to create a memorial for honoring the work, commitment, and service rendered, so in my sharing today I'm sharing the link: http://www.fpcv.org/fallen_pcvs.htm Here's to my "89 days to departure". My promise is that I'll always have the courage to be transparent as a way to expose my fears, mistakes, and/or hurts in order to help someone else. Again, this is apart of my journey and I won't pretend that it's perfect and that I don't have days of uncertainty or clouded thoughts. In closing this entry, this one thing is for sure: although my biggest fear has always been to die and still be full, it's far worth it to me to take the chance and risk dying by giving back to this world