Right is a small box invented by people who are afraid. And I know what it feels like to be trapped inside that box.
— How does it feel to be at war?
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— In your first battle you're so afraid that you'd rather piss your pants than fire a shot.
— And then?
— Then you get used to it. But it's as if time stood still. You train for it, but that's nothing compared to the real situation. You're there and... you just try to stay alive. And you think about things.
— Like what?
— About the people you love. Everything you're about to lose. Everything you still wanted to do. Your life races past you in lots of pictures, and you've already settled everything. And suddenly a voice inside says, "No! I don't want to die yet. Not today. Not today."
Experience does not come without pain, open up to it without fear.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
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