My Advice.
“Man is born alone, lives alone, and dies alone. What you feel and experience, no one else feels or experiences.” Colonel M.C. told me that long ago, amidst courses and real missions.
The world is full of people who seem to glide through life effortlessly, while others appear magnetized by troubles. But regardless of luck, life remains a continuous effort. And when we talk about difficult or problem-filled careers — military, police, justice, intelligence, and politics — that effort transforms into a struggle. A struggle that, ideally, shouldn't exist, but one that demands everything from us.
Have you ever wondered how much you can rely on yourself when pressure mounts?
In civilian life, if you change your mind, most of the time you have time to fix things. In the military, or in positions where your decisions change destinies, you don't have that luxury. One second, one wrong step to the left or right, and it's all over. Either for you, or for the person next to you. Not all of us were born to be soldiers, and that's how it should be. Mandatory military service was, in my opinion, a mistake that wasted and destroyed hundreds of millions of lives in world history, because you cannot force someone to have discernment under conditions of exceptionally high stress.
My advice to you is simple: Be prudent!
You can't be an expert in everything, but you can choose to be informed. Don't venture into a military career, magistracy, or politics just for the sake of the idea, if you're not sure how you react in the face of chaos, disaster, and all that is worst in this world. If you stumble over yourself or many things in quiet, imagine what will happen when “life shoots at you.”
Test yourself no matter who you are, regardless of experience and what you've done in life, or what you want to do next. Test yourself and consider that if you can't manage here, if you don't achieve the best results here, in battle where every moment and every thought counts, you won't be able to succeed.
Test your soldiers and group them by their best results. Without results, don't even force them to fight and don't recruit.
Always choose truth, justice, and morality.
If you always choose these values and they become your instinct, life will choose you too. But until then, test yourself. Test yourself here, in quiet, without torturing yourself and without risking anyone's life. See where your limits are.
Your judgment is your only real protection in a world that constantly tries to manipulate or rush you. This is a game, but it's a game that reflects your own reality, allowing you to face your reason. It's not a test to praise you, but one to save you from future incalculable mistakes. Take this step for yourself. Find out who you are before life puts you in a situation where the price of ignorance or lack of discernment under special conditions is too high.
Test your discernment now. It's better to find out the truth about yourself today than to discover it too late, in the midst of battle.