Would you be a soldier?
Let's save the answer for later mate, well back then few months ago or last year I think, someone said something about good and bad soldier to me and yesterday someone else did..
so it motivates me to write this down...
Well in fact that a soldier have to follow orders from their higher ranks, would you always follow them? Hmm let's think about it... if you're told to stay in one position until you are given another command, would you stay? or if you're told to go somewhere would you go?
Well the simplest question for all of them is.. "would you follow all orders given??"
f you do, then CONGRATULATION mate!!! Coz you can be considered as a good soldier (Based on that philosophy)
To be honest... I'm not a good soldier because if you asked me that question, "would you follow all orders given?" My answer will be... it depends on what the orders are, so in other words it means that I might not follow all of the orders..
Why? Yes "why" its a great question that you might be asking and that's also the question that I'll be asking if I got an order and if I the order do make sense I'll go or else I won't... Well after I learned from my Masters, like Ernest, Ken, Peter and also Ko Dickson, Ko Fredy and also my other masters. I learned that in this life we have to realize "hey there are times, when we have to be a leader and lead the team, however there will also be times, in which we have to be a follower and follow the orders" and so the question is... If a lousy person leads your team, would you follow that person?? Think about it mate, as a good soldier you might still have to do it,remember as a soldier order is everything.
...and for me, if I have to lead a team in any situation I'll do my best for my team even though we disobeyed the order and of course I'll take that responsibility myself and I would not drag any of my team member into that and again Why? In SuperTeen I was told that every Action has Consequences and I agreed. You shall NEVER run from them and you must Face them. That why I always took my responsibility, but for disobeying I still have another reasons for it..
As I said before it depends whether I'll do something or not, why? Because I simply can't let my team to do something stupid or anything hurts them. Imagine you are told to kill some people, because they made some silly mistake, well to make it even crazier you have to kill your own family, lets say your brother. Isn't that insane?? ...so in any case I'll see first whether the order make sense or not.
For My Masters order like Ernest, Ken, Peter, Ko Dickson, Ko Fredy etc, I surely trust them and if I don't understand, why I have to do something, I'll ask them later. Like in one event, Ken asked me to make it harder for the participants to pass, so that the can learn something. So I always believe that behind every order there must be something and if I don't understand I'll surely ask. So always find The Purpose even the Purpose Behind Purpose if Possible.
In the last 3 years I have been through many situations that acquire my decisions. One day in my daily life, there was a situation,where myteam made a mistake and it's their decision to made not mine, but still as good leader I protected them. Why did I protect them? Even though I wasn't there, at any case they are still my subordinates and if they are about to get punished, it will be me, who punish them myself. Sorry to say but that time, they're about to get punished, because of something riddiculus so how can I just stay and see them get punish? NO WAY I'll let that happen!!! Even though it put me to a bad situation later on, but I have to say that I have no regret for what I did that time and as I said before I take the concequence with no hard feeling..
Just to let you know, I made more mistake, when I have to do things alone, because when I'm alone I have no responsibility of others and at any circumstances it will be me, who will be blamed if I did a mistake. I made MISTAKES of cource like I wrote in one of my previous blog, but from that mistake I learn something... I always learn from my mistakes and it's ok to make mistakes, because only by making mistakes you might be able to learn something different and yet important. When you did something always notice that you can always learn from it.. Maybe you can't find it the first time, but rethink about it and you will sure find something to learn like an old saying says..“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it”.
Back to what I asked on the beginning, "Would you be a soldier?" what do you think? Please think about it.. Well for me myself I would refuse to be a soldier, because like I said before I'm not a kind of person that will always follow everything without knowing the purpose, I'm not a doll that can be controlled all the way by someone else. Sorry to say everyone I'm NOT a ROBOT... I have heart, well I have nothing against you who wanted the opposite, I will still appreciate you, but for me I'll still do my best at any situation.. I'm a quite flexible person that would listen to others opinion and reconsider my own opinion, we always have to listen to everyone, so that we could see things from many points of view. For me personally, I would happily listen to others opinion and thoughts even though they might be different from mine. Take a note about those..
So even though I may not be a good soldier,I won't regret, besides soldier isn't the only position in military army, don't you agree? Well I once took a test of "Which kind of soldier are you?" the answer can be many.. such as Officer(normal soldier, most people get this), Engineer, Medic, Civilian etc and I got the Special Ops, which means someone that do all the unusual things, making strategy,negotiating,rebelion, double agent, spy etc. So I think we shall do the best thing that fit us... and anyway...
if you notice about my blog header, I wrote something about Ronin...
Well yes, thats also one of the reasons why I may not a good soldier...
Because I'm a Ronin.. I'm a Fighter that owns Freedom...
someone that do the BesT at every situation... until the day I die...
and that's how a Ronins Live!!!
Thanks for reading...
Some Gist:
- Every Action has Consequences, Never Run from them Face them
- Behind every Order there must be something
- Always find the Purpose even the Purpose Behind Purpose if possible
- It's ok to make Mistakes, everyone did
- Only by making Mistakes you might be able to Learn something Different and yet Important
- Every Moment is a Golden One for him who has the Vision to Recognize it
- Always Listen to Others Opinion, so that you can see things from many Points of View
- Soldier isn't the only position in Military army