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Originally Posted by darrianation
Anyone can choose to be a warrior or choose to be something else, it is really a choice. If your training does not give the you the confidence in your skills and capabilities maybe this shows a flaw within the training model.
Besides this particular situation is a “giveme”… a gift from God because you can ambush him and finish him off before he even knows you are there.
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Well, yes, choices are involved in everything but like most aspects of human social development its not so simple as that. Life generally has a bit of complexity to it.
I think cultural development goes in to people and is required in the formation of a warrior mindset. We had another discussion about this in a different thread the topic being *courage.*
I'm not being self-deprecating but I'm just being honest when I say I'm not naturally courageous. I'm not even that naturally aggressive. Left to my own devices in a different, much more loving and kind world, and I would likely have become a fairly gentle and kind male that played "rough" every now and then.
But life has away of stealing our innocence. I'm much more angry, much more mean, much more rugged, and much more at home to violence, acrimony, and vendetta than some people simply because my environments have been that. But naturally, my inclination is much more gentle. I'm not as daring as many males.
So, my training has been fine, my personality just has its own particular challenges or limitations.
I've had a lot of anger and because of that sometimes people view some of my actions or response to other men as courageous when in fact it's not. Anger can give false impressions. I can fight a thousand men when I'm angry - partially because I feel I have already died. You can't kill me twice. It is that feeling which makes me potentially dangerous.