Meals were often eaten standing up, and I wasn’t quite sure why they had bothered to issue us with beds, we got to see them so little. - Bear Grylls

These made Trucker and me look back on the summer Selection days as quite balmy and pleasant! It is strange how accustomed you become to hardship, and how what once seemed horrific can soon become mundane.

Planning can become a very clever form of putting things off. At some point, you have to just begin.

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.