MCPO's Log on Stardate: 62608.19

Posted on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 @ 8:44am by

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I am usually the dumb one…the buffoon…I can only imagine how that is going to play out. Well, all right, I’m being hard on myself, but at least that is one of the ways that you can examine me. I realize that I am a bit quick on the take and a young buck sort of individual, and they say that accepting and admitting that you have faults is the best way of dealing with them. Of course, everyone has faults. I realize, though, that my lack of wisdom is something that might not be the best to admit publicly. I remember back in officer training I heard a piece of advice that essentially told me never to show any sign that I do not know what to do to subordinates, nor never accept that my superiors do not know what to do.

Again, so, I might be a little hard on myself, right? But I’m still the young buck and I’ve written before about being a Master Chief Petty Officer and all. I just wish I could get some guidance without looking like a weakling.


How, then, may I handle my silent anguish? Surely, to languish such in an aforementioned silence is to be counterproductive…right? Or is this sort of thought a product of my own delusions, caused by the abovementioned lack of the sagely wisdom that I clearly do not possess…or is it even that I am not open to such wisdom and cannot accept it, therefore I cannot handle it?

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