Lapse in Awareness

[Oldgringo]

So number 24, as written, says to use only very small caliber guns...

...or a 105mm howitzer?

[speedsix]

...sure would make for a shorter fight!!!

[JP171]

So number 24, as written, says to use only very small caliber guns...

...or a 105mm howitzer?

yea I just carry a duece in my back pocket everywhere I go. it would be fun, set for quick on soft targets means about the middle of the body, wooohooooooo kersplat.

learn to live in yellow to orange, a year in a combat zone will do it for ya, or realizing that everyday that you wake up looking down at the grass(dirt) is a yellow zone day and many are orange days.

[speedsix]

...it's a service to all around us...SOMEBODY'S gotta be payin' attention...

[chasfm11]

My enemy on SA is divided attention. I've always had some level of SA in places like parking lots simply to avoid stepping out in front a vehicle (which often seem to come from nowhere). Since obtaining my CHL, I've made a conscious effort to expand my looking to every human that I can see and to places where a human body could be that I don't see at a particular moment.

It is all too easy, however, to have something else on my mind. This is much like driving along, thinking that I'm paying attention to my driving and suddenly arriving at a point in my drive without any memory of the last few events before I arrived there. I've found that I have too simple of a mind to be trying to remember the list of things that I'm supposed to buy at the store that I'm walking into AND be able to pay attention to all of the bodies around me. Recently, I've been forcing myself to put aside all other thoughts from the minute that I arrive in the parking lot until I'm inside the store and concentrate only on actively looking at everything. I very much like the suggestion of evaluating the clothing of everyone that I see because I think that exercise will help sharpen my concentration.

I read Gavin de Becker's "A Gift of Fear". He essentially says that one should pay attention to one's intuition. I've always done that. But I no longer think that is enough. It is situations like the OP that have convinced me of the need for even more concentration on my surroundings. I cannot rely on my "spidey sense" alone.

[speedsix]

...I gotta read that...well put...

[howdy]

You start life with two bags....one FULL of "luck" and the other EMPTY with "experience". Your goal is to fill up the "experience" bag BEFORE you empty the "Luck" bag.

[Gyrogearhead]

25. You can’t miss fast enough to win.

Gerry