Well, living and working in Chicago isn't easy. It's an overall great city, sadly politicians and corruption has always ruled over this city and the state. Sometimes I think that this state should be called "The State of Chicago" but anyway enough of that. I've been in public safety, law enforcement fire service and military for most of my life. Just lately I've been getting physically and mentally exhausted with all of what we experience as firefighters/EMT and paramedic in the fire service. The more I go to work, the more death and destruction I see of our youth. Kids not even adults just yet all shot up, murdered, executed like animals, rampant violence, black on black crime, and vice versa, young babies lost, lack of parents to care for the young, broken homes, family, so many people desperate for a solution that they themselves can't find.
It's getting to the point that every-time that go to work I'm already expecting to see just more carnage. Being a combat veteran who has experience combat in it's worst way, this is almost identical to being back I'm that way of life. I have to admit that you have to be mentally strong to know how to differentiate the differences. Don't know if I am trying to vent, rant or just be listened to. But whatever it is something needs to happen for some changes to occur. Sometimes I wonder if this all by design or maybe this is the way that our society is heading to. I try to not to allow myself to think about what I do in my job and how the affects it has on all of us who provide this type of services to the public, but that's why many pubic safety personnel become alcoholics, drug addicts, divorced, broken down, just broken overall, etc.
Of course that I am not saying that all of us do become the above but this type of career truly has an affect on all of us who do this type of work. If and when I get to retire, I have to admit that I will move out of this state, city and into a nice different peaceful lifestyle. In the past few days I've seen more kids being shot in the head, than fires themselves. Shoot, this summer alone I've seen more blood, brains, dead bodies than well, let me not go three..
It's very disconcerting to think to have a family, kids a family knowing what's going on in our own world. I know what a bullet can do, how devastating a certain caliber could be, in fact, any bullet caliber could be very destructive indeed. I approach my conceal carry sidearm with a different mindset not to take a life but to preserve a life. Way too many animals out there don't have the slightest respect for life, and that is very concerning. Thanks for allowing me to vent a lil bit...
It's getting to the point that every-time that go to work I'm already expecting to see just more carnage. Being a combat veteran who has experience combat in it's worst way, this is almost identical to being back I'm that way of life. I have to admit that you have to be mentally strong to know how to differentiate the differences. Don't know if I am trying to vent, rant or just be listened to. But whatever it is something needs to happen for some changes to occur. Sometimes I wonder if this all by design or maybe this is the way that our society is heading to. I try to not to allow myself to think about what I do in my job and how the affects it has on all of us who provide this type of services to the public, but that's why many pubic safety personnel become alcoholics, drug addicts, divorced, broken down, just broken overall, etc.
Of course that I am not saying that all of us do become the above but this type of career truly has an affect on all of us who do this type of work. If and when I get to retire, I have to admit that I will move out of this state, city and into a nice different peaceful lifestyle. In the past few days I've seen more kids being shot in the head, than fires themselves. Shoot, this summer alone I've seen more blood, brains, dead bodies than well, let me not go three..
It's very disconcerting to think to have a family, kids a family knowing what's going on in our own world. I know what a bullet can do, how devastating a certain caliber could be, in fact, any bullet caliber could be very destructive indeed. I approach my conceal carry sidearm with a different mindset not to take a life but to preserve a life. Way too many animals out there don't have the slightest respect for life, and that is very concerning. Thanks for allowing me to vent a lil bit...