Follies of an Awakening Fool

In a rapidly polarizing world, Melmin finds his way through dead-ends of following others' expectations during a full naval career, only to discover that happiness is in a deep Spiritual connection - one that he never could have seen coming.

Beginning in mid-1988, "Melmin" launched into adulthood fresh from his long high school years by immediately donning the Navy dungarees. His goals were clear: combat, foreign and exotic locales, and maybe a Medal of Honor. Twenty years...
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In a rapidly polarizing world, Melmin finds his way through dead-ends of following others' expectations during a full naval career, only to discover that happiness is in a deep Spiritual connection - one that he never could have seen coming.

Beginning in mid-1988, "Melmin" launched into adulthood fresh from his long high school years by immediately donning the Navy dungarees. His goals were clear: combat, foreign and exotic locales, and maybe a Medal of Honor. Twenty years later he retired with things he never expected. Two failed marriages, a lost young adult child, and a failed attempt at SEAL training brought him face to face with a lifetime of failures and an unknown future. Unsure if he should punch out or push forward, something totally unexpected occurred. Through an abrupt and painfully unwitting renunciation of his entire possessions, he was shown the Light of God and given two choices. Looking back at his life and the "teachers" who showed him the hard way to live, he opts for the path of Knowledge...except it requires a death of ego harder than anything before. Follow along and watch Melmin go from destruction to the ultimate Creation: of an Enlightened being.

"A true warrior does not hate his enemy. He is not neutral to his enemy. He loves his enemy as he loves himself. He sees in his enemy a mirror, a reflection of desire to survive and of fear to die in vain. His true enemy, he realizes, is himself." ~Melmin