Adaptability and Comprehension

After years in the U.S. Army being trained by the Green Berets, we learned to be Paratroopers, speak another language and trained for weeks in the damn rain during Monsoon season to live off the land, and eat raw snake. It’s all a test of your ability to stand if you are captured. “This is how waterboards feel like,” the Special Warfare Instructor said. Perhaps Charles Darwin who spoke of evolution was right; it is not the strongest species that survive, but the species that adapt to change. One must adapt to the situation otherwise you do not survive, you just exist.
You must be able to hold a job, and not make the same mistakes over and over again. For some, it’s a day to day, week to week struggle just to get by. Carrying all your past problems around you (hate) and no peace of mind, no respect for others, no discipline, just never ending hate. The mind that cannot adapt to change will always be struggling. It is important to note, however, that you must always be focused on the change of events that go on around you.
Justified or not, you must adapt. It’s priority number one on my list. Not being focused, you never have peace; you are a lost soul out there on the streets (the mean streets) just existing, that is all. Just running away from life, running away from love, running away from responsibility. According to Sigmund Freud, no one is totally sane: some are more sane than others. Think about it, always screaming with anger. A mind that malfunctions is an undisciplined mind – a lifetime of struggle just to hold on, preparing oneself to take on the work to be optimistic (I will make things better for myself) despite all the bad things around me. I will move on to a better life. Staying away from psychological hardship, and may God walk with you always.
James Fetherson is a former vendor of Street Sense.