Here you go, make something positive out of this. So I take a Viet Nam Vetran to his car today to retrieve some property, because he has a bunch of knives that he can sell, because he can't afford to get his vehicle out of impound. So, I stand there and watch him, here a knife, a blanket, some clothes, because it is going to be cold tonight, and I tell him take one of his blankets. Then he finds some clothes and packs them in a bag, but he can't lift it, because he has had a stroke along his left side, so I tell him, put the bag down and lets re-pack it, because I know he has to catch the bus and carry all his things and his arm won't work. So we start over, the knives he can sell to maybe get his car out of impound (his home), the clothes he needs to stay warm, but can't carry because his arm doesn't work, so I make him put them on over his clothes, and the other arm is carrying all his paperwork from a lifetime of identity. He finds his false teeth and I asked him, who bought those for you? He says a church in Indiana.
Then I ask him, where are you going to stay tonight, can't you stay at a homeless shelter? He says no, they will take all my things and beat me up.
Then he tells me about three "gooks" he killed in
Vietnam, shot at five, killed three. He seemed proud, but I know that is what killed his soul - and no one told him so. People don't kill people over borders or gain and live to tell about it. He was so lost in his world.
Quoting: Ohwow! A sad story.
I agree a lot with how you interpret his situation but let me tell you what i think =)
The brain works in pattern. If you tend to choose a solution often, your brain becomes aquinted with that ''solution'' and you then become more aware of the solution making you choose it more ''often''.
This has been proved by neuroscientists and is called brain plasticity or neuroplasticity.
Anyways, many people in this world gets trapped in very hard situations, like this soldier, situations where they have to deny some of their inner feelings, in a way supress what they feels is right.
In one way morale would be the right word, but its not, im talking about the feeling connected to morale, not the thought.
So when you supress and supress it becomes a pattern. A pattern is always hard to change, it can grow bigger and bigger, and the larger it gets, the harder it is to escape it. This is just an illusion, but its very hard to spot when you are ''in it''. And this is why many people who get in these situations just give up. They are blinded from the solutions because they have so much FEAR! A mindpattern working on fear! Fear is blinding, fear is THE supressor!
The only way to light up the solutions blinded by fear is to look at them in a more positive way.
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This is why choosing love and allowing to be yourself at all times is SOOO IMPORTANT.
You can ''learn'' to live after fear, or love.
Most are inbetween because they dont see the full spectrum of side effects of supressing fears =)
Ps back to the soldier;
Overcoming the Nightmare of Post-Traumatic Stress;
18 veterans commits suicide every day.
In fact, more veterans die by suicide every year than are killed annually in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Over 500,000 U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 suffer from post traumatic stress.
40% of all homeless people are veterans.
Health care costs for all veterans with PTS, are an estimated $6.2 billion annually.
[link to www.davidlynchfoundation.org]
See where im going :O ?
