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By day I am a bureaucrat - fighting from within the system to keep the air clean, the water in our rivers, Bambi in the forest, and Bertie Beaver safe from harm. I fight to save the world from the luxuria of our ever-striving hands.   By night, I realize I fight in vain.  So I escape into history. To a place that time has left behind. A history that I can witness and explore, but I can not change. It relieves the pressure.  Those people, who lived and loved, fought and died, have already played life’s game. They set the world spinning, and though obscure, each of them has left a lasting impression. My only aim when the moon arises in the evening sky is to get to know them. To remember that they, like me, had passions and dreams - some they fulfilled and some they lost along the way. But they lived. So do I. 

My professional career requires me to write nearly every day, but strategy and policy development doesn't allow me to explore my creative side.  I have joined HubPages as a challenge to myself. My challenge is to improve my creative writing skills by dedicating each hub to a particular writing exercise. Here we go...!