Be a Functional Vet!
Stop the Self Pity Party
It’s easy to get caught up in this shit. You start out with psyches and counselors telling you you’re fucked for life. You have media who ignores you and tells everyone that YOU are the threat to the security you’ve fought to provide. You have friends and family who don’t understand you. You have a president, who abandoned everything you sacrificed for. You have friends who’s deaths now seem pointless. The only people who did “get” you aren’t around anymore. Some of them still in, some of them dealing with their own demons.
This post is a friendly reminder to get it out of your head! You’re “outside” now and 99% of the population will have no fucking clue what you did for your country. 99% of people will not find your sense of humor funny. 99% of people will likely look at you like your some sort of psychopath if you tell ANY of your stories from your past life.
That’s OK brother! That’s “normal” for US! It’s not fun, it’s not helpful, but we chose this path so 99% of the country doesn’t have to experience what we did. Mission Accomplished brother!
Now is time for you to find what you want to do. You write your own missions from here. You plan out the objectives and plan for the threats to your success. You and those of us still lucky enough to have our family and wives and kids. It’s time to make shit happen for them. For US.
Take these rules to heart. Get up! Get out there! BE something! There’s no command to dictate your left and right limits. NOBODY else can tell us what to do or how fucked up we are. We are what we make of ourselves.
You made yourself a soldier! You made yourself a warrior! Our warrior days are through, but now it’s time to make ourselves the heroes of our lives. It’s time to be what most of us would consider “selfish”
Get up… Dust off… Carry ON!