Your History is Told By Your Action to Others

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Sitting at the pool yesterday, I was listening to a friend talk about a Commanding Officer he met on base. He was working and living with the military on base for a job. Every day, he would explore different parts of the base to take pictures and see this Commanding Officer around 5 PM in the community area. 

   This CO sat down with my friend every day to talk about what he saw and learned. The CO was very receptive to how my friend saw things and what his experiences were. The CO was open to any questions my friend had.


   On the last day of my friend's stay, the CO asked him a very interesting question; "From everything you've seen from your stay, is there anything you think of that I can work on to be a better Commander?"

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   My friend was taken aback by the question. He was surprised that an officer in the military was asking a civilian what his thoughts were about his leadership. 

   He thought about it for a minute and noted, "Some of the places I traveled to on the base were extraordinary and when I thanked the soldier who took me there, they said they asked to take me there because they've never seen the place themselves. With these pilots fighting for their lives and having only split-seconds to live or die on the battlefield, I think all the soldiers deserve the right and time to see anything they want on the base."

   The CO listened intently and nodded. He told my friend that he had not thought about that and will bring it up in the next officer meeting. 

   Whatever my friend thought about the military vanished from the interactions he had with this CO. "Although there may be some bad apples in the bunch", he said, "I feel that the inner-works of the military are run right". 

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   In whatever field/industry you work in, there are bad apples that tarnish the job you work. There will always be someone that disapproves of what you do, but don't let that be what history says about you. There are many people throughout history that have done great things, but we remember the greats by who they were as a person before what they did.

   History is molded by stories. Some by autobiographies, but mostly by what others see and write about. That string of interactions with my friend and the CO changed his whole thought process about the military and he's telling stories about it years later. That's history in the making.

   History will not all be about your singular actions in this world, but you are apart of it. You need to decide what history will say about your actions and decisions in life, because history is one of the only things that are left behind once you're gone.

     Brad Slaughter is a Co-Owner of Try-Fun Fitness & Training, Writer for Inside My Inquisitive Mind, Producer, Entrepreneur and trained in Social Media Marketing By Coursera. 

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