Life

I got home from my second tour of Vietnam completely awake for probably the first time in my life. Being awake is like the sun coming up directly into your sleepy eyes, unfiltered. Wake the hell up! This I did because for the first time in my life, that war that I was in got lost by the same party that started that war. Who lost it? Democrats. The same ones that got it started. I give you, John F. Kennedy. I really thought I loved that guy. Well, proof is in the pudding isn’t it?

I was twenty-three when I got out of the service with a lousy injury, an injury I never reported, to my back. Pain is a great way to go through life as it takes away one’s penchant for nonsense, as if combat weren’t already enough. Laugh loudly and act silly after killing? Not gonna happen. It stood me in good stead for challenges once I quit drinking myself to death. It’s one of the mental injuries combat leaves many of us, escape through booze or other wonder drugs.

All of this is to say that if you think you have a bum outlook on life you ain’t seen reality yet. Xog Life awaits. Know what the good news is? No psychiatry just plain talk and honest words. How is it that I can do this? Experience which was forced on me from being a little kid to going to war as a young adult to owning my own business to growing pretty damned old. Enough of the flappings of angst. Enough of the excuses that others people ruined my day. It is about you in the end. It always was and is about you. You handle it or you give up. Don’t ever give up. Giving up does not become a human being if even a rat will try always to win it’s meal.

There is little more I can say here in one page of what most will call cruel and insane writing. I care not. I have listened to more mewling from young people than I care to. I say with all honesty that it used to not be this way. Spare the rod, spoil the child, is a saying from the bible. Psychiatry got in the way of this long ago and look at the outcome. Psychiatry, helpful if you can afford it. The bible, helpful to the extreme if psychiatry gets out of the way of God. God, our Creator. We, His creation. Nations, a result of not obeying God. This is something you need to seriously consider before you decide that I am a fool. I’ve been a fool so I know what not to do. It is called: experience. Take it or leave it.

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