You just reminded me of something a priest told me several years ago - "the gates of hell are locked from the inside." In other words, so many people spend their lives complaining about their current situation or blaming others when all they have to do is unlock the gate and step out. We are in control of our future.
I guess I don't like the analogy of being in a concentration camp. If I was, then I'd like to believe I have unlocked the gate, and I'm not going back because unlike in one of those camps I do have control. Not going back. No how, no way. Hell is no way to live.
Read The Meaning of Life by Victor Frankl. He describes how he survived the concentration camps by controlling his thoughts, emotions and actions.
I used the POW training I had in the Air Force to help me DB. The Stockdale Paradox is from Adm Stockdale's 7 yrs ordeal in the Hanoi Hilton. The key is understanding what you do have control over.
M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
