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View submission: Tuesday Check In: How's Everybody's Mental Health?
How do you deal with the feelings of inadequacy when it comes to military service and being unable to do it due to medical reasons? It's a mandatory thing in my country and the one i live in. It's a expected thing and a shared experience no matter how rich or poor you are, be it city-dweller or rural hillbilly. I do not feel as manly as them and i feel sad on missing out on that formative shared experience. And it isn't that i do not want but i was denied on medical grounds. I'd volunteer if i could because i believe in the independence of our country and the survival of our language and culture. I believe in democracy and a dignified existence.
So when i see in the newspaper about conscripts i feel a feeling of missing out even though i have ways to contribute in a wartime society which are useful. It's the same in patriotic texts and excerpts you hear. It's both a spook to make people do their duty yet at the same time there beats a patriotic heart inside of me who believes in our continued independence from Russian tyranny.
So the old masculine ideals of dying in combat used by rulers to make people die in their wars but on the other hand it's a war to defend your home and family if it ever comes here. I feel a lot of masculine ideals that shape our society stem from old military ideals for soldiers.
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