Hell Week and Beyond by Scott McEwen

Author:Scott McEwen [MCEWEN, SCOTT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

Lesson:

In life and in the SEALs, injustice, failed expectations, and empty promises are not just common—they are the rule. Life is not fair, ever. We all know Lady Luck is an unfair bitch. Both bad and good luck—physical health, athleticism, looks, wealth, where you stand in the path of a sniper’s bullet—are doled out indiscriminately. In reality, often good luck goes to those who don’t need it and the rest of us catch the shit and have to fight and scrap to get anywhere close to even. What is worse, when luck is taken out of the equation, when the field is as fair as possible, the rules of the game disproportionately favor the winners. This is really important to understand—life gives more good shit to winners and destroys losers, even the ones who are just a step or two behind the best of the best.

Those in the lead get rewarded and get ahead; those who struggle fall behind, and then they get their asses kicked so they fall further and further behind, until winning is hopeless, and you will never ever get a break until you can get ahead. This is not an aphorism that contains a truth—this is THE TRUTH. No matter how hard you work or deserving you are, the winners get paid. If you don’t win, you don’t get paid. You eat shit or, in the case of Hell Week, a boot full of sand.

You need to have a thick skin, perseverance, and a never-quit attitude in order to get by. But there comes a point in life and in hell and during Hell Week when simply limping along is a liability. The weak—the injured, the out of shape, the poor bastards with pneumonia and VGE—are the ones who are preyed upon and culled out of the herd. It’s not their fault they got sick, but they lost all the same and the world pounced.

This is a very cruel truth about life that is deeply important to understand. When you are sick, suffering, and down and out you can NEVER count on getting a fucking break, and when you do it is pure luck, quite often the luck of where you were born and who you were born to. Most of us are not lucky. This is why you can never stop trying to win.

Life, at least in the United States, operates like the stock market. The stock market does not give a Wall Street trader who is down on his luck a break—ever. The trader eats what he kills, and the more he kills, the more he eats and the more he can kill. Or he goes fucking broke and into debt trying. The unlucky bastard who gets cancer also gets the medical bills, often loses his job or can’t work, winds up broke, and if he’s really unlucky, maybe he even gets left by his wife for a younger, healthier guy. Life is fucking unfair.

Countries, and the far leftist politicians in the United States, often try to level the playing field with the intention of giving the same, or similar, to all.

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