You can't know what to always do, true; but sometimes it's also in knowing what not to do. It's not fool-proof; never is. Then again it's the trying that counts. It's like success in a way: The more you practice, the better you get. Strength is like that.
Hell, sometimes strength isn't strength to begin with. It's all in the training. Military basic training doesn't teach you a job, it trains you to trust your training blindly so that you can perform your job no matter what your situation is. Ask any war veteran who saw combat and got medals. "We weren't heroes," they always, always say, "We were just doing what had to be done." Of course we who haven't been in that frenzied frey would call them heroes! We have time to think about it! To us, they're a movie. To them, hell, they didn't have the luxury of time to think. They only had just enough time to do what they were trained to. It's the same with firemen, cops, ER staff and other life-or-death jobs.
Thinking about it, I think that strength comes from knowing that something has to be done, knowing that it's not going to be a piece of piss, and doing it anyway, because not doing anything would foster a greater wrong.
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Date: 2006-04-19 03:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-19 05:30 pm (UTC)Hell, sometimes strength isn't strength to begin with. It's all in the training. Military basic training doesn't teach you a job, it trains you to trust your training blindly so that you can perform your job no matter what your situation is. Ask any war veteran who saw combat and got medals. "We weren't heroes," they always, always say, "We were just doing what had to be done." Of course we who haven't been in that frenzied frey would call them heroes! We have time to think about it! To us, they're a movie. To them, hell, they didn't have the luxury of time to think. They only had just enough time to do what they were trained to. It's the same with firemen, cops, ER staff and other life-or-death jobs.
Thinking about it, I think that strength comes from knowing that something has to be done, knowing that it's not going to be a piece of piss, and doing it anyway, because not doing anything would foster a greater wrong.
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Date: 2006-04-19 05:43 pm (UTC)