You need to be a warrior in your heart to survive these times

My experiences in life have been extreme at many points. Whooping cough at age 2. Concussion from Rock climbing age 9. Seizures caused by concussion at night from ages 10 to 15 often. Leaving my childhood church that my parents were ministers in at age 21. Breaking up with a girl I was going to marry in that church at age 21 around the time that astronauts first landed on the moon.

All these events turned me into a warrior. However, if I wasn't some kind of a warrior already I wouldn't have survived to be 15 either. And I have to attribute my experiences with God and Angels to my beneficent survival to age 30 as well and ever since.

What is a warrior?

When you get knocked down you are sort of like a basketball being bounced. You don't stay down very long. You have a will to live and to survive no matter what.

Often for me now at 76 it is just going out onto our deck in the back yard which is sort of like our own park with Pine trees and oak trees and a Hawthorne tree or bush too and roses and sitting in the sun like I am now. 

But, getting up and coming outside is still an act of a warrior in that I face the day and whatever it brings.

While I was in my 20s I used to run from responsibility a lot if I could.

Then one day I realized that when molehills in your life arise you have to face them right then or things can soon get completely out of control.

So, ever since then I face things while they are still molehills before they become insurmountable problems and I watch young people often make the mistake of not facing problems when they come up and those problems might ruin their lives in one way or another if they don't face them headon.

My father I attribute my best "Warrior" qualities too.

He said, "You have to just keep making decisions throughout your life as a man. You NEVER have enough information to make any decision really in life so you just have to keep making these decisions and when more information arises regarding that decision often you have to change your decisions to something else. This is just life as it is. You just have to keep making decisions as a man the rest of your life."

I have always found this point of view extremely amazing and powerful and useful.

So, unless you really are a warrior in this sense you might not survive these times.