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I'm not depressed, not yet, and have enough sense of duty to not try to get out of what's to come just to get on with... whatever the hell it is my non-professional life has become.",[28,52,53,54,57],{},"The army will go hard on me, physically - and this is okay. It will be hard, but trainable, doable. I'm not so sure about surviving the amplified effects of mind games and loneliness. I don't have a girlfriend and the list of people I can ",[45,55,56],{},"really"," talk to is very, very short.",[28,59,60],{},"Military discipline is good and rooted for a reason. Terry Goodkind paints a very motivational picture of this in his \"The Sword Of Truth\" series (the D'Haran army). Leo Kunnas does the same in his Gort Ashryn books. Soldiers who are effective, disciplined, kind and know what they are doing and why. 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