[Max Ra]

His greatest war .. not battle ... war ! was with his own mind ..... while/as it was under influence ! He won. He won by remembering "Piccard's" positive experiences small or big ... and returning as Piccard by believing AS Piccard !

All of us who have lost some self-esteem and need to work it back up ... I sometimes feel it's a similar experience. We need to return AS ourselselves by believing AS Ourselves. Any thoughts ?

Regards,
Max Ra

[DePressMe]

Hi Max, great analogy! I love it! Believing in myself and being myself is often a struggle for me. I appreciate you sharing the Piccard war. Battling poor self-esteem truly is a war. Your post has made me think about things.....D.

[LadyShadow]

Wow! That does make sense! I often battle with myself when it comes to my self esteem. Great analogy! Locutus took over Picard and he became someone else, some of the things I tell myself make me think I am a whole different person!

[ATJC]

I ♥ Star Trek. Never thought of it like that. It's so hard to think positively, but far too easy to focus on the negative.

[Onward2wards]

Thanks for the analogy, Max. To quote Guinan: "Resistance is NOT futile!"

[unaluna]

How weird that you posted this this week! I got to "play" Locutus of Borg this week at the eye doctor's when she clipped a prism on my glasses and told me to go walk around. I wanted to zap people. Good thought!

[Webgoji]

I guess I don't get it. Sorry.

My wife asked me to explain what it was that made me give up hope, made me care so little about myself. I explained it like this:

When I was in high-school, I was like a young squire. I was told over and over that if I believed strongly enough and wished hard enough, that I would be chosen by a knight and then become a knight myself. So I worked hard and when the time came ... I wasn't chosen. (I couldn't get any scholarships even though I was top of my class.)

So I paid for an apprenticeship (student loans) and managed to gain my knighthood that way. Okay, it was a small setback, but was I was ready. I had my armor (confidence) and weapons (education) and was ready for battle. So I offered my services to the king ... and then another king ... and then a prince ... then a duke ... finally I found a land-owner that would take me. (A small private company finally hired me after I had 2 degrees.)

So I grabbed my weapons and went into the fray. They told me that if I fought valiantly enough, I would get an army to fight alongside me. After a year of constant battle I looked around to find I was alone and it was my own boss sending the beasts against me.

I found another kingdom to defend, but with the same results. Over and over I fought until I looked around to see myself alone on the battlefield facing odds that were impossible to overcome. I was even marked as wanted for protecting people against the wishes of the kings. (I was working 80+ hours per week and getting laid off for stopping projects that would kill people.)

I dropped my broken sword and my armor was already useless. I couldn't fight anymore, it wasn't worth it. There was no army coming to help, there was no glory or riches. I was prosecuted for doing what was right and barely made enough money to get by. (By my last engineering job, I was a ten year veteran in charge of the largest system on the largest gas turbines on the planet and finally made as much as the guys in the shop who worked half as many hours as I did.)


So yeah, I don't get it. Piccard's successes were huge (as far as the series goes ). I mean ... he was friggin' Piccard after all. How's it supposed to work for us mucky-mucks?

[Max Ra]

Originally Posted by Webgoji

I guess I don't get it. Sorry.

My wife asked me to explain what it was that made me give up hope, made me care so little about myself. I explained it like this:

When I was in high-school, I was like a young squire. I was told over and over that if I believed strongly enough and wished hard enough, that I would be chosen by a knight and then become a knight myself. So I worked hard and when the time came ... I wasn't chosen. (I couldn't get any scholarships even though I was top of my class.)

So I paid for an apprenticeship (student loans) and managed to gain my knighthood that way. Okay, it was a small setback, but was I was ready. I had my armor (confidence) and weapons (education) and was ready for battle. So I offered my services to the king ... and then another king ... and then a prince ... then a duke ... finally I found a land-owner that would take me. (A small private company finally hired me after I had 2 degrees.)

So I grabbed my weapons and went into the fray. They told me that if I fought valiantly enough, I would get an army to fight alongside me. After a year of constant battle I looked around to find I was alone and it was my own boss sending the beasts against me.

I found another kingdom to defend, but with the same results. Over and over I fought until I looked around to see myself alone on the battlefield facing odds that were impossible to overcome. I was even marked as wanted for protecting people against the wishes of the kings. (I was working 80+ hours per week and getting laid off for stopping projects that would kill people.)

I dropped my broken sword and my armor was already useless. I couldn't fight anymore, it wasn't worth it. There was no army coming to help, there was no glory or riches. I was prosecuted for doing what was right and barely made enough money to get by. (By my last engineering job, I was a ten year veteran in charge of the largest system on the largest gas turbines on the planet and finally made as much as the guys in the shop who worked half as many hours as I did.)


So yeah, I don't get it. Piccard's successes were huge (as far as the series goes ). I mean ... he was friggin' Piccard after all. How's it supposed to work for us mucky-mucks?

We are talking about self-esteem here .
Well ! for starters ... we could acknowledge Ourselves AS Ourselves ! who we definitely know ........... is not 'mucky mucks' ! just like he wasn't Locutus and he knew that fact. And made himself remember and believe who he was ... despite all the negative experiences and brain-washing on the borg ship. Maybe we too need to remind ourselves who we are and believe ! not what the negativity puts through to us .. but what we know .

Regards,
Max Ra .