Post by fimbres on Jan 25, 2019 16:45:00 GMT -8
It's funny. I was looking around the Jocko Podcast website and I see this Free Your Mind community thread. Now, I'm not sorry to admit that I am a pretty emotional dude, so when I saw that there was actually a place to introduce myself, I actually got choked up a little. Not sure why. I guess you could say it is because the truth of the messages put out by Jocko and Echo resonate so deeply within me that I feel like I can be myself here. The topics surveyed are not fluff. They are real. They are hard. They get to the grisly root of humanity and deal with the facts of how horrible we, and the world, can truly be. My name is Adam Fimbres. I am twenty-four years old and serve in our USN. By naval standards, and by society's standards I would consider myself sort of a wreck. A lot of disciplinary issues at work, in my marriage, at school, and in my own life. So one small thing I have but just the slightest inkling about is failure. Not just monumental take-your-knees-out-from-under-you failure, but just the continued failure of a person who just can't seem to get it, no matter how many times he's been punished. The kind of person that fails a million times in his personal life and just can't seem to stay balanced on the high wire that life truly feels like at times. That is me. I say this to give a thorough picture of how I have felt about myself in times past and to some degree do even to this day, although it's more of a residue than a true formation these days. In any case, only recently as in this past year (2018) did it finally start to click. Jocko and his team, have been a rather large part of that. Starting with the Tim Ferriss and Joe Rogan podcasts interviewing the gentleman. Then to the books, and now to the podcasts, now here. One thing I know about the nature of life is one thing I learned from a good song, and it is this: This Is Never Gonna Stop. Never. It just goes on with almost no care for those who are unwilling to get up and go on with it. Finding this podcast has helped me etch out the reality of who I am, and what I believe. I am a Christian, but I am sorry for what the larger part of Christianity has become, or at least those that profess it. Fluffy, accommodating, compromised. Infiltrated and torn apart, drawn away from values and beliefs set up from ages past. But here, I find a man who is humbly devoted to his cause and his path. MUCH RESPECT. By virtue of the truth you seek and to a very high degree, embody, Mr. Willink, I am inspired and held to a higher standard than most I can find in every day life. I work within my sphere of influence with what I have. I do my best to ensure that I am faithful in little, and patient to wait my turn even when I THINK myself DESERVING of more. I humble myself, get back to work, and encourage my fellow human. I know to many, and even to myself, you appear, and may truly be at a strata much higher than my own, but I want to give you encouragement, as simply a fellow human. May God bless you in all your endeavours. May you always believe that there are always those to carry on the torch of Goodness and that your work is not in vain. May you know, deep down, that you are never alone in the universal fight between the good, and the bad. Thank you for reading. End.
