Fortitude...

Just finished a good book...

Fortitude by Dan Crenshaw....

A SEAL with 10 years of service, then wounded in Afghanistan, recovered and elected to Congress in 2018.

He tells his life story, along with detailing the dangers from participating in the rise of the hyper-sensitive "victim" mentality in America (where one blames everybody else for everything that happens to them, rather than accepting personal responsibility for their life).

Interesting perspective coming from a SEAL, where their most fundamental training and core purpose in life is to take total responsibility and more importantly full accountability for their personal actions...the total opposite of victimhood. 

His description of today's America brought to mind Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

First published in 1957...it's was (and still is!) a warning for the hidden but inevitable and absolute destruction resulting from socialism and marxism.

I first read it in the 90's...my second read was late 2013.

Both times, the malaise described in the book was prescient...a warning for the future.

Reading it again now... 

The conditions described are here...now...in America today.

Makes my heart hurt.

We can't hide from the reality of how America is being purposely attacked...

Socialism will be the death of America.

Recommend reading both...Crenshaw first...

Another favorite, Jordan Peterson, speaks of getting your own space right before you try to fix the world...

So read the books, then do something as simple as taking personal responsibility and accountability for your own life...

Our children's and grandchildren's futures are at stake.

They need to see our real examples of how we respond responsibly to life...

So they can see firsthand, and then learn to develop their own personal accountability and responsibility by rightly living their own lives.

I fundamentally believe the essence of life is in the creation of worthy dreams...which generate pull and motivation...and then going after them...

Taking personal responsibility and accountability for attaining realization.

It's the total opposite of being a victim, expecting somebody else to provide everything to you.

One of my Northstars...

SUCCESS is the progressive realization of worthwhile dreams or goals...

It isn't 'having arrived'...it's not a destination.

Someone who is a success is one who is applying action over time to achieve their goals...they're in pursuit...

Even if the rest of the world is playing the victim, wallowing in a socialist pigpen, squealing for slop.

Working towards, and eventually realizing long-held dreams and goals is core to what makes life worth living!

Let the adventure continue...