RE: My greatest competitor
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I am one of those funny guys, as once I hit top spot then I lose interest and I don't continue in whatever I competed in. I think in your game you have to be pretty good in order to hit top spot and you were wise to change the focus onto yourself. I am sure that you have also hit top spots in other activities in your life.
To me it's a brief moment of satisfaction and then it's gone, forever.
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I've spent many years being number one in shooting events, and other things, and being far lower also...It's just how it is...There's always some new big-dog looking for a shot at the title and that's how it'll always be. It's all good...I'll win sometimes and not at other times...That's the way life is. For now I'm happy to seek continual improvement.
Shooting doesn't define me as a person. I'm many other things besides. Winning or losing doesn't define me either...The fact I seek improvement and show persistence and ownership, stand up and keep walking, does. It's one of my enduring (and probably annoying to others) attributes. I'm stubborn. Knocking me down rarely goes well for people. I just get back up.
So well said here and yes, fall down, get back up, dust yourself off and continue. No tears, no moans, just the raw courage to try again. Such is life my friend.
We are also difficult to be defined, as there are so many different facets to us and I blame the 3 guys in my head hahaha. Each one has his own habits, hobbies and ways and all that I have to do is to act like the Ref lol.
A little bit of madness, wrapped in humor and presented to the world.
Zac, there's so many shining examples of that get back up and walk ethos.
It's not just that kid who gets teased, but keeps on going or the operator who pulls his mate from the burning Bushmaster after it hit an IED, shooting at the enemy the whole time. It's not just the woman, beaten by an asshole husband, who stands and just moves forward through life...The couple who lose a child to sudden infant death syndrome or the person who suffers cancer but refuses to let it define them. It's people like this who I respect most. These are the true hero's to me...The every day people who simply stand the hell up and keep walking.
I'm sorry, I'm somewhat passionate about this ethos right now...I've been knocked down, recently and in the past, and I got the hell up...It wasn't easy, no, it was hard...At times I wanted to stay down...But it's not an alternative in my mind...So I moved, I stood up and...Took that step. Then the next...Knowing that being knocked down again is possible.
Fortitude, persistence and the stubbornness, the refusal, to let adversity win seems to be fading from human nature...It's sad.
I'll stop now.
Always bad news to get knocked down Galen and I hear your hurt in here. It always leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I don't know what happened and this is not the place to discuss it, but hear this, I know that you are excactly the same as the people in the situations that you have mentioned and that you will never lay down, regardless of the odds.
We share that as believe me that I have been in situations that will make your hair stand on end, but here we are talking to each other today, which in my book states that we have both made it and we will continue to make it.
I cannot give you any advice here, in fact even if I could, I won't as we have to work through these things for ourselves.
Fortitude, persistence and stubborness have become strangers to many and we see them begging at the traffic lights every day. They ask for money for food, but if you give them food they throw it away, as they want money for drugs, so that they can hit a high and escape from their lack of fortitude, persistence and stubborness.
I will also stop now!
The world is a tragic place...I wonder if it has always been so.
Tragedy has no time limits my friend and since the beginning of time it has attacked and affected mankind. Believe it or not, it is tragedy that opens us up to ourselves.
You're a wise man Zac.
Nah Galen and I am sure that you will also disagree if I were to call you wise.
We are just a bit experienced in life my friend.
Experienced. Yes, that's a way to put it. I think with you it's that you always put your message across so calmly...I'm more, excitable with it...But I'm a passionate man and that comes out in all versions of me I guess.
Passion has also played a big role in my life Galen until I suffered two bad burn-outs at Papillon.
Marian called me a trojan all of the time, as I am one that goes to extremes.
Thankfully time and common sense started to calm me down and now I am only a whisper of what I was before.
I think that one day, as you go into your late 60s the same scenario will start to emerge in your thoughts and you will have a lot to offer others. Just in a different way lol.
I can imagine you working so hard like that; You probably get so focused that you forget all else.
You over estimate my value Zac, it's nice of you, of course...But I am a very average fellow.
I am not known for underestimating things Galen and average you are most definitely not.
But let's leave it there, as each to his own thoughts 😉
We are alike, you and I.
Yeah, brothers from another mothers as they say here 🤣
We have the same one. It works.
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