With great power comes great responsibility - Uncle Ben Parker.
The more responsibility you undertake, you either become a sort of monster or you start acting more responsibly. It sounds like you're aware you've "grown up" a bit in the last year, and that combined with your new "martial" knowledge may have given you a better sense of responsibility.
For myself, if someone shoplifts at my place of work and I can stop it without a problem, great. If I can't, well, it's in our budget. You threaten me or my coworkers...I'll try to de-escalate the situation. If that's not possible, regs. be damned, I'll fight to stop the threat.
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Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi
I'm just wondering if you think that it's the events solely that changes you or if it's how you deal and react to events over time that changes you and any major changes you've made in life and how it's changed toy personally.
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I'm aware I've grown up. I talk less, and far less emotionally now. I use reason more instead of instinct. I'm an adult and I've decided to act like one. Funny, but I wish now that I could "loosen up" more.
Becoming a gun-owner gave me a deeper view of the simple act of staying alive and violence in general and why hurting others should be avoided if reasonably possible. While other people around make idle threats against others "do that again and you're going down" - that sort of thing, and say stuff like "I wish he'd just go away and die," I look down on that kind of talk now - it embarrasses me - and I never speak that way myself. It also gave me a small frame of reference to view what's wrong with the way humans treat each other - you can start to get just a small corner of the "picture" of war when you discover what you can do to another person and what they can do to you. Laugh if you want, it's the truth.
Adrian