“Most people are alert and oriented x1. They’re dazed and confused.”
Dr. Gregory House, from the television series "House, M.D."
““When John Spillane wakes up in the water, he is alert and oriented times zero. His understanding of the world is reduced to the fact that he exists, nothing more. Almost simultaneously, he understands that he is in excruciating pain. For a long time, that is all he knows.”
John Spillane (from the book/movie THE PERFECT STORM) is a para-rescue jumper sent into the North Atlantic, into the worst storm of the twentieth century, the perfect storm, to rescue a fisherman lost at sea. When his helicopter goes down, he is forced to jump into pitch blackness from an unknown height, and when he hits the water, he’s going so fast it’s like hitting the pavement from eighty feet above. He is dazed and confused—just as we are when it comes to the story of our lives. It’s the perfect analogy. We have no idea who we really are, why we’re here, what’s happened to us, or why. Honestly, most days we are alert and oriented times zero.”
— Waking the Dead: The Secret to a Heart Fully Alive by John Eldredge
To that end……how alert and oriented are you?
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