Vladi Wizard's Musings

Re-Posted from my 911 Peer Support Group Vladi's Mental Health Meanderings Part 3 of 12 You're a ROCK!! How many times have you heard this? How many times have you said this? We like to use it to define a person as solid, imperturbable, unflappable, STRONG in any occasion or situation, no matter how chaotic and terrible. This is something that administrators look for in call-takers and dispatchers, people who keep their cool when everyone around them is losing theirs. It's something I have heard pretty much all my life. Calm and stoic, relaxed and humorous, the man who laughs at the sight of conflict. Bill.... YOU'RE A ROCK!! Well, thank you ... but, that rock has many many cracks! The problem with rocks is that they have no flexibility. There is no adaption or adjustment. Rocks are stable, but also un-moving. And, LIFE is not like that! In the years, I have built a very large, tall and thick (it's the most BEAUTIFUL OF WALLS... ), t...

I am re-entering this log. After all the time I spent on it, it really frustrates me to no end that Yahoo kept buggering it up. I think because it did not like me copying in a definition of heroism from another website, so instead of doing that I will just pop in a couple links (since they all say basically the same time... I am sure that you will get the idea). * snipping out of first two paragraphs of definition and explaination of why I did this re-do. Basically, thanks to the comments by The Manipulator and Jaime S * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heroism I still think, even with the broadening of the field of what a hero is, that the term is way over used and given too freely to describe people, especially in regards to 1c (above). Yes, we like to think that motherhood is an admirable achievement, but we too often forget that just because a child comes from a woman’s womb, that woman is not automatically a great parent. It is often s...