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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Knowledge...?

If you travel a lot and live in different countries and societies around our planet, do you then learn more about life then the person who is staying home and living in the same place and are meeting the same people and is going to the same job everyday...?


I think so but at the same way I think the other guy is thinking the opposite!!! I heard ones a saying:

"If you discuss something with a person with lower knowledge and wisdom then you, he/she will win" and this also goes two ways: "If you discuss something with a person with higher knowledge and wisdom then you, you will win"...


Do I need to explain??? Hmmm...


Have you ever tried to talk/discussed with a guy who nevered has left his country, a guy who's only info-bank is the local-media and his local friends....


Or...


Do you remembered when you where a kid and you parents told you "don't do this and don't do that" you where of course very upset, because you where RIGHT!!!

In the end it is not who is right or who is wrong. The planet of ours has many rights and many wrong, and it is not one way or one book that is the correct one! It is like the Yin and Yang... It has to be a balance of everything...

Monday, May 3, 2010

Stucked in a minefield, a very boring and long day...

Sorry that I have been away for some time, Mai was not really my office months... Sometimes even time for a small blog input is not possible... Been travelling a lot... But I will get back to that another day...
During a very interesting day soon many years ago me and my military brothers where on our way out on a routine survellience mission... I was going to take a small shortcut to get up on the correct dirt road. The weather was fantastic and even if it was morning I my shirt was wet of sweat under the bulletproof west.
I was the driver that day and when I turned the big military vehicle up on the gravel road my tailgunner started to scream: "HALT"
I pushed the breaks max and we came to a sudden stop...
Out to the left in front of us was a pole-mine that was connected to a piece of thin cable that crossed the road. Behind us we saw another one with just the same kind of setup as the one in front.





My SGT went on the radio and reported the situation in to the base and the rest of us went up on the roof off the truck. After a couple of minutes he came up on the roof, with a sour face:

"We have to wait here until a EOD unit is available (EOD=Explosive Ordinance Disposal), and all of them are a couple of hours away..."

So what should we do on the roof of a APC = (Armoured Personal Carrier) for a couple of hours.
hmmm....
We had the following items available:
- 1,5 kilos of pistage nuts
- 15 MRE (Meal Ready to Eat)
- 95 litres of Water
- A lot of tobacco
- 10 magazine of the kind that boys likes sometimes... (you can decide what you think yourself)

All of us bored to death already the first hour, started to dig in to the nuts and water and food. The problem was that we had to behave and act proffesional due to the fact that this situation was seen as a "serious-issue" and a small mobile-crises-base was put up on the nearby hilltop overviewing our vehicle and the minefield, with company commander tent, medivac etc.
So the biggest question, how do you sit on the roof of an APC and look proffesional????
After some looooooong hours a british EOD team came and cleared the area for us and their first comment when they arrived to our vehicle:
- HAHAHA... THAT IS A LOT OF NUT SHELLS....
We said:
- 1,5 kilos of pistage-nuts creates a lot of shells, but it is ok no mines under the shells, what took you soo long...

We had during the time ate all the pistage nuts and of course created quiet a big pile of shells around the car...

When I look back to what we actually did on the roof this day I dont rememer really, I only can think about the nuts...
hmmm... Interesting...

Dreams.... From the past!!!

Dreams is always something intresting and can many times maybe show you a little what is mentally happening in your life. I almost always have dreams from my military background, most of the times it is not bad dreams, but it has an interesting military touch...

I clearly remember one specific dream that has been coming back to me over the years. The only differnce have been the different people involved. I will not use any names here but it always starts like this:

Everybody is in the big hangar preparing all the military gear but I don't exactly know what they are preparing for but I know it was for something big. The atmosphere is more like a big reunion and everybody is happy and smiling, it is people from all my life most of the times and I cannot really find any system in my head why these specific people are part of the dream. The dream always change smoothly but at the same time very quick...

...We are now in hostile warzone with craters and everybody is hiding along a line of trench holes. The atmosphere is changed, everybody is scared and I am trying to keep everybody calm and ready for what is coming, but I dont know what is coming... Me myself is not scared only frustrated that I feel that i miss something, that something in my gear i not there or something that is not hundred percent ready... I feel stressed and at the same time that I try to keep everybody calm Im trying to find the last pieces of my own gear.

Suddenly enemies is coming over the hills but my gun is not working, it is clicking... The enemies is getting closer and closer but my gun does not start to work... It feels like that gun is breaking up and is now more like a slimy fish that is moving in my hands and I cannot really keep the grip of it anymore... The funny thing is that Im not scared, only stressed and frustrated...

After this I wake up and of course it has not been the best sleep of the week but the dream is still hanging on for some minutes or two before it disappear together with the morning yawn...

This dreams always come in moments when my daily life is putting a lot of pressure on me from different directions and disappears when things are calming down again...

Back to work...