Military, my favourite subject! Because in Finland every 18-year old is obligued to go in there or alternatively to a civil service where I currently am.
Shameless commercial break about my posts where you can read about my experiences in the civil service:
My Civil Service #2 - First week in the education center - The worst is already behind
My Civil Service #3 - The civil service center in the middle of a peaceful countryside
My Civil Service #4 - Mindfully increasing my life saving skills
My Civil Service #5 - I FOUND A SERVICE PLACE - The civil service center in the middle of a peaceful countryside, PART 2
My Civil Service #6 - An end with a new beginning
My Civil Service #7 - First week in the work service
My Civil Service #8 - My service was found precious right in the beginning
Lecture from a REAL PRISONER - My Civil Service #9
Extreme Mood Swings - My Civil Service #10
My Civil Service #11: I May Have Discovered My God
Commercial brake over, you may continue with the freewrite.
I've been meaning to do an in depth post about my thought process why I decided this way. That's why I'm not even going open the pandoras box in this freewrite because that would escalate quickly. Better save that for later.
Oh, now something popped into my mind that is perfect use for this: One day I was in a train going to work when I heard a man and a woman discussing Finnish military and how today's military is such a wimpy place because hazing had been forbidden by law. Then the man made an outrageous claim that today's mental health problems are caused by of lack of structure in young people's life. And I guess he used that also as an argument for military (which is quite bad of an argument btw; structure education for young adults; that could be done way more efficiently by other means).
But seriously, how the fuck can someone think that a single contributing factor to depression is liberal upbringing/lack of structure or boundaries (btw, liberal upringing isn't even that common today, so dude in the train: maybe get yourself in this decade and stop forcing your own horrible experiences you've had to go through to everybody else.) Such a claim is so absurd that how do you even start debunking it. Sure, it can contribute to a degree. But to claim that it single handedly causes it. That is seriously unbelievable. I should've given the man a handshake for the creativity.
And the woman is also like "yeah, men used to be iron". I'm not actually too sure anymore who said and what. If you're refering to the people in the war. Well, Finns used a shit ton of amphetamine to keep going and to be able to go through the shit they had to, so "iron men" seems more like a romanticed dream to camouflage the ugliness of it all.
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My previous freewrites:
Weekend Freewrite: Pink Is The Most Painful Colour
Day 141: grocery list/ostoslista [ENG/FIN]
Day 140: Blockages in the Flow