Long Hard Road by Thomas Saylor

Author:Thomas Saylor [Saylor, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780873516815
Publisher: BookMobile
Published: 2009-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

For Bill Connell, as for many of the men kept in solitary confinement, the challenge was dealing with being alone.

At first the days went by reasonably fast, but after you’d been in solitary confinement for about a week, and you’re just sitting on the floor on what they call a tatami mat—you didn’t have a chair to sit in, you sat on the floor—time began to drag, and so you had to start—at least I did—I started to think about different things to keep my mind active. Just thinking about things that I did when I was a kid, and thinking about my parents, and thinking about things I did in high school, thinking about flying. Anything I could concentrate on. That helped immensely.

Then I could do some calisthenics in the room—push-ups, sit-ups—which also helped. Basically [mental and physical gymnastics], that’s exactly right. As long as you do that you keep the mental process functioning, and you don’t go into depression, and you don’t sit there and worry about what might happen. You don’t have time. You’re thinking about other things. You can’t help but think about what’s going to happen, but … (trails off).

I was living day to day. I was optimistic in a way and pessimistic in another way. I was optimistic that I was surviving day to day, but I was very pessimistic as to how long I would be there.

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