In the Forum, A Patriot Speaks
US Navy 75-79
"I swear. It is the fear I see in people that really bothers me. The sheep-like fear. It is controlling the lives of people.
I rebel against that. It isn’t that I minimize the danger. There is a saying I love, and it is relevant here:
“A ship in a harbor is a safe ship. But that isn’t what ships are made for.”
I feel like I want to say to people: “You may think a human with a mask avoiding others is a safe human, but that is not what humans are made for.”
We are made to interact with each other, to see each other’s faces, to shake each other’s hands, to hug each other. There is something obscene to me about covering one of the most beautiful things in the world with a mask...a genuine and warm human smile. We are MADE to see that. It isn’t insignificant. It means something special. So we should do and see these things.
Not to cower in fear.
If I get the virus, I get the virus. If it kills me, it kills me. I have had a wonderful life on this earth, but I’ll be damned if I live my remaining days acting like a scared sheep cowering in a dark place.
I feel in my heart that there are indeed things worse than death, and squandering this beautiful life that God has given me by quaking in fear in a dark, lonely house, well...that isn’t the way I want to go out."
BTTT!!!
Hear, hear.
Hey! I can’t sleep either!
2am. 🙄
Fear.
I was one of 2 persons in a Walmart this afternoon defying a county wide illegal mask mandate.
We were 2 free persons in a sea of sheep.
Good night, dear Q Mod!
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👍zactly the way I feel about it.
To see that post of yours made my head swell with pride, ransomnote. Granted, I didn’t write that to elicit praise like that, but as I said to another Freeper, I felt a flame in my heart as I was writing it.
I have heard that expression before, but until last night, not sure that I ever felt it the same way, at least in that sense.
I have to guard myself against pride, too, but...kind of a funny experience for me a few years back when I was protesting near the White House with a bunch of folks from the incomparable DC Chapter of Free Republic, and was holding a sign to support the troops, when an older couple (obviously tourists) came up to me and asked if I was Gary Sinise!
Now, I admire Gary Sinise a great deal, and I don’t look ANYTHING like him, but...boy, that swelled my head for a while even thinking that someone could make that mistake!
In retrospect, that pride in a mistake like that could not have been healthy in any way, even though it was kind of fun...:)
Anyway, that post of yours was greatly appreciated, to see I made contact with someone on this point.
Thank you.
AMEN!
That post resonates very strongly with me. Thank you so much for making it, rlmorel, and for bringing it over, ransomnote. Ransomnote, you’re incredible at knowing what we need to see. That’s why you’re the best MQD!