Veteran Mettle

“What does anyone ultimately fight for... ultimately? It’s one thing. It’s always change.” Tyler Grey     I thought this was pretty profound. I never really thought about boiling down a motive, an intention, an action (and all it entails) into it’s most fundamental pieces. But in an effort to obtain more knowledge, and then through that, more understanding - this is quite helpful. The insanity in a war, is done in the name of change - on both sides. When someone wants a raise at work and they don’t get it, this leads to them quitting - boils down to them wanting the change initially. Or something as simple as when someone grabs a drink, it’s because they want change. When someone leaves their previous life behind to commit to a larger cause - because they want to affect change. We are responsible for making the change we desire, or at the very minimum, we are responsible for attempting whatever we can to see to that change. Ally, educate, attempt, train, learn, adapt, see...

At some point in the journey we must transition from replicating what we want, to actually pursuing a deeper understanding of the details surrounding what it is we want. For example, at one point I wanted to compete in CrossFit style workouts. I figured the quickest and best way to do that would be from doing the workouts prescribed. So prescribed was what I was chasing. I thought that through repeated contact with prescribed weights, reps and movements would allow me to adapt and get me to where I thought I should be - competeing and doing well. What I didn't realize until much later was that this was just a first step in a much longer, gradual, humbling journey to get fit/healthy/strong. I have only realized since then, that it's not enough to just simply want to and then try to replicate what "the big boys" are doing - it's not effective, and as I found out the hard way - it's not safe. I saw something that looked easy to replicate, so I attempted it and...