MrBallen
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It took me four years after coming out of Afghanistan to just talk to the guy who saved my life.
We're at the same team.
We see each other in the halls.
We didn't talk.
But eventually when I sort of came around to maybe the death positive side of things, I was like, I need to look at this.
I looked at it as like a tremendous gift.
And it wasn't that like, now I have a second chance.
Definitely that.
The lasting impression it gave me was, right now, we are living, and we don't think about it.
You don't wake up and think, oh, I better make sure my heart beats and I gotta breathe, circulate my blood.
You just live.
You just live.
But what I felt in my, almost certainly had I not been rescued, I would have died.
I was in the final stages.
I was told I was maybe 30 seconds from death.
You are ready to die.
You just don't know it.
And for me, I was.
I was very badly injured.
I didn't feel anything.