We say we are feeling depressed. Simply stated we just feel things
are not going right. We explain our frustration this way…
- Our computer is running slow.
- We have too many leftovers in our refrigerator.
- We just found out that that new piece of furniture we ordered on the Internet is going to take 5 whole days to get to us.
Yea that’s tough all right. Sometimes we just want to scream.
That’s about as frustrating and tough as anyone can stand…Or is it?
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Let’s step back for a bit. Let’s look around and see if
anyone has it as hard as we have.
Below are the first 3 paragraphs of an article in the Wall
Street Journal…
“Marine commando Randy
Hoffman’s plane took off from Kabul, climbed over the jagged mountains and
turned toward home.
Somewhere down there
was his tent, a piece of canvas stretched across a pit he had carved into a
high-altitude ridge. Randy had spent most of the previous 2½ years in the
mountains along the Pakistan border, turning Afghan villagers into soldiers.
Rugs covered the
tent’s dirt floor. He had a wood stove for heat and collected catalogs of farm
equipment and RVs to remind him of home in Indiana. A metal thermos stored the
goat’s milk and cucumber drink delivered each morning by the mountain men who
fought alongside him. He and the Afghans would sit on a dirt bench, talking
about poetry, faith and honor, and how to make it through the next day alive.”
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Go back and read the last 9 words of the above excerpt. Does
that make our Slow Computer and our Abundant Supply of Leftovers and 5 Days
Delivery Wait Time seem not too important?
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Col.
Randy Hoffman served seven combat tours in Afghanistan, six of them highly
classified missions, and one stint in Iraq.
