I've been doing martial arts so long I forget that other folks don't have an outlet for their aggression and frustration like I do.
I'm not saying I'm more patient than others, but I seem to be able to keep thinking longer before fight or flight kicks in.
This past weekend I was confronted with a violent situation and that longer fuse prevented violence entirely which was doubly fortunate because the situation was far from what it seemed.
I'm not saying I'm more patient than others, but I seem to be able to keep thinking longer before fight or flight kicks in.
This past weekend I was confronted with a violent situation and that longer fuse prevented violence entirely which was doubly fortunate because the situation was far from what it seemed.
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Or so it seemed.
I stopped the brontomobile, kicked off my footwear, explained I was a blackbelt and demanded an explanation. Within seconds I was flanked by two other blackbelts who had come for the ride with us.
The guy very quickly explained what was going on.
Turns out she was bi-polar and having a manic episode (been on the receiving end so I recognized it).
The woman tried to jump into the brontomobile (it was still running), but at a word, the lovely and quick thinking
The woman sprinted off into the woods.
At that point there is ZERO mobile signal, no matter the carrier. After asking the guy how we could help we took off and found a ranger who radioed the authorities.
Of course that was after we had defused the other drivers who had only seen part of the events and were ready to tear the guy apart.
Later that day we ran into someone who happened to pass through there later and they spotted a police car and an ambulance, so things turned out all right.
But it took a good 45 minutes plus some physical exercise to finish flushing the adrenalin out of my system.
If I went with my gut instinct, I would have been mixing it up with the real victim.
When mentally ill people get off their meds, or their meds stop working and they have a relapse, it's amazing how strong and resiliant they can be.
The guy doing the beating had been raised by his mentally ill mother, who told him when he heard voices it was demons trying to corrupt him.
Combine that with the other client who on any given day wanted to be refered to as "Stalin", "Mussolini", "Hitler"...
On the day he got beat up he was "Satan". And walking around saying "Everyone's dead!" Not good for him.