Try to be better than yourself.
José N. HarrisI am a kind of paranoid in reverse.
I suspect people of having good intentions.
Our Obligations are...
to smile when happy;
to give meaning to this life;
to try to give a little more than we have taken;
to honor our Father for his kindness;
to not ignore those suffering or in need;
and to try to make this world a slightly better place before we leave it.
Take one vial of my blood and I will not die.
But if you continue taking it, one vial at a time...
slowly... I will die, slowly. But make no mistake. I will die.
It is the same with my rights.
CHARACTER... demonstrate it.
José N. HarrisIs it wrong to say that
I would not mind
having your peanut butter
on my chocolate?
Amateurs train until they get it right.
Professionals train until they cannot get it wrong.
THEM AND US
For them it was the 6 o'clock news.
For us it was reality.
They called for pizza.
We called for medevacs.
Their passion was success.
Our passion was survival.
They learned of life.
We learned of death.
They served dinner.
We served our coutry.
They can forget.
We cannot.
My blade, sharp. My incision, perfect. A Surgeon Warrior. I can use a knife to take a life or to save one.
We were trained to revel in action, to translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these jugements into actions that were at times- irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful. We did all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension in which what was expected of "us" was the impossible, yet we delivered just that.
The sad truth is that... many people are, in fact- stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because they are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. Some people's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true.
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