Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Hurt Betrayed Son
Throughout the essay, there explanations on how Rambo or Chris and Saul were "used". " The problem is, the military used him in the war as a tool to do terrible things, dehumanizing things: he was appreciated, esteemed, "loved" by his military "fathers" only insofar as he was useful to them, only insofar as he was skillful at doing their dirty work for them ( page 174)." I feel as though this was one of the reasons Rambo lashed out at society. Have you ever felt "used" by some one, and if so what was the situation? How did you feel afterwards and how did you react? Were you furious with the person who used you, or did you feel naive?
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I would really like to be able to have a personal experience to realte to the feelings of Rambo in the sense of being used, but i am struggling to find a time where I recognized being truely used by someone. I can only imagine what it is like to be used by people who you look up to, or who you thought cared about you.
I think at some point in everyone's life there will be a time that someone feels "used". I know that I have been taken advantage of before. Throughout the summer I would hang out with the same group of people most everyday. I would always go out with my best friend. Whether we would go to a movie, or go out to eat, she would complain that she didn't have enough money so I would pay for her. I did feel a bit used because although I knew that she felt badly, she would expect me to pay if she didn't have money. I told her that I wouln't mind paying for her as long as she would pay me back. She ended up paying me back, and I wasn't furious with her, I was just upset that she relied so heavily on me.
Everyone in there life has been take advantage of or used. One time in my life i can recall is, in my home town places to go and "party" at were limited. When word got out everyone would call you and ask you about it or show up. Me and m close friends were always the ones to host these parties. After awhile people would just show up and never pay or anything like that jsut use of because we had the place to go. We all got real upset about, we knew we were being used. We started kicking people out left and right. People started to pay but some didnt. Some felt bad and realzed what was gonig on. Others didnt and its obvious that they didnt get in or were not welcome what so ever.
as i think back in my life their isn't a real moment that sticks out to me that i have been used...or aleast is appropriate to put on this blog.lol, but i think everyone ends up getting used in their life whether it be a small circumstance or a big one. i also feel that everyone will use someone else as as well whether it be small or big. i remember this girl i used to ask for gum like everyday because i knew she had it and i knew she would give me some. although this was really nnot that big of a deal i was still using her for her gum.lol
i can recall of many times when i have been used, or at least felt used. i think everyone is used in one way or another whether they know it or not. a group of friends i have would always ask me to do things with them or for them just because they knew i would do it, and there's someone i know would would always make me buy things for them because they weren't of age and they knew i would do it. even though i always know at the time that i'm being used i always do it and i hate it. i need to stand up for myself and stop doing so much for people when i don't get anything in return.
I have felt used by my sister before to drive her around places. She doesn't have her license so whenever she had to go to work I drove her. It made me mad but i had no choice because my parents made me. She never even thanked me for taking her. I was pretty mad but i knew there was nothing i could do about it, so there was no point in getting too mad about it.
Everyone at some point in their life time has been used. Sometimes people dont even realize that they are being used. One time that I felt I was being used was this year recently. In our dorm room my roomate and I got some money together to buy a pretty nice t.v. for our room. People are always coming in our room to watch football games or movies. They end up staying in our room for a while eating up all of our food and drinking all of our drinks. At first I didnt really mind but after the first week I couldnt handle it anymore. I felt like the only reason people were coming in our room was to eat our food and drink our drinks. I eventually started making people pay for the drinks they took while in our room.
This is a pretty far out question...To some extent, as a Peace Corps volunteer, I felt like we were political pawns in terms of our purpose in other countries, as it related to PR. On the other hand, I felt like we were able to negotiate our own purposes based on what was meaningful to us in our communities. When I figured this out it made it much easier for me to make sense of my worth as a PCV.
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