If you are some thing great but even if you are not some thing great then please do yourself and everyone around you and all those that you love a favor and do not lie about being some thing else. If you were watching the news or on the internet this week you might have heard about the priest who was claiming to be a navy seal. He was eventually interviewed by a paper and then the word got out and within a short period of time it was national news that he had lied. That is how the world works now a days. If you tell a lie there is a chance that it will come back and bite you. Since the Bin Laden raid there have been quite a few people claiming to be Navy Seals as noted on this article: Navy Seals Claims On The Rise. Irregardless of the lie just don’t do it!!! In this world in each and everyone of us there is potential for greatness! Find what you are good at and do it! Do not make up stories, etc as in the end you only hurt yourself! Instead if you want to be some thing go out and do it! If for whatever reason you cannot such as age, illness, etc. then find some thing else that you love and pursue it! When I was a young boy I always wanted to be physically effective and was thrilled with the possibilities of training in the Martial Sciences. So I went out and pursued it! Over thirty years later I still have that same thrill every day when practicing. The people I respect the most find some thing that they enjoy and they pursue it. I find them enjoyable to be around even if we may have different pursuits in life. You see passion about some thing is just plain cool! Just be passionate about your life and not what someone else is or was. (the grass is not always greener)
No instead be what you are and want to be!
You can do it!
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I wonder if the guys now claiming to be Seals are the same ones that claim to be fireman right after 9/11.
When I was a kid my father was in the Navy (not a Seal) he was on a carrier and he would bring home all sorts of squadron patches for me. However I was never allowed to put them on a coat, and military patches were popular then, but he would not allow me to do it because I was not a navy pilot or for that matter not in the Navy at all. My dad retired after 22 years in the Navy and I still do not display any military emblems on anything I wear for the same reason he taught me.
But more to the point of your post, I agree be who you are it is so much easier, however it is not always easy to find out what you should be or who you are, but it is a great learning experience getting there and lying about it only makes it tougher to figure out… and now to quote my favorite philosopher since it is how I try to live… I am what I am and that is all that I am.
Great post Tim! Especially the quote!
The journey of finding out what you should be can be difficult but also so rewarding!
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I have a personal thing about logos. I don’t wear logos of units, agencies, or anything else that I don’t have personal, legitimate ties to. I’ll wear the t-shirts from an Isshin-ryu sponsored tournament that I attend regularly, for example — but not an Isshin-ryu t-shirt. I don’t wear t-shirts or patches from military units, either. Or PD units that I am not involved with.
There are those who outright “lie” about who they are and then there are others who squabble for rank and titles that while “authentic” are nothing more than a thin screen of paper over a gaping hole in an ego.
Guy’s like you don’t have that problem though. From all I have seen of you, you WORK and let the rest come as it will. I respect that. Keep up being who you are.
Thanks Tgace!
Jim I am very much like you in your approach with logo’s. I like plain simple things and also enjoy wearing items that I am affiliated with but not items that do not have a personal tie to me. I understand that completely!