Helping Kam.

Posted on September 21, 2008 @ 11:17PM

I was meditating when I got this call from Derf. Kam was in hospital, because he had over-exerted himself training for the Advanced Flight Tournament. I’d been seeing less and less of Kam lately, and I instantly felt guilty. Here was the guy who always tried to cheer me up, who had done so much for me and asked for so much in return, and I hadn’t even known what he had been going through lately.

I went to see Kam, in the hospital, and he seemed quite agitated. At first I wondered if it was because of me, but after I while I realized that he just wanted to get out of bed. I tried to tell Kam he needed to take it easy. He convinced me he needed to train. Derf had told me that Kam hadn’t been looking after himself properly, and that the stresses of flying in those advanced sims was taking it’s toll.

I told Kam that all the hours he logged in flight sim would be for nothing if he didn’t focus. Just because he was spending as many hours as possible didn’t mean he was going to be automatically good. He needed a clear head to focus on his goal. He seemed to calm down a bit, and I told him he could still train while he was stuck in hospital.

“How?” he asked.

I showed him how to meditate. I sat on the end of his bed, facing him, and walked him through all of the techniques that I had learned from Naseden. I helped him visualize his goals, so he could run sims in his head, so his body was at rest while his mind grew and learned. I expected him to be against it, but I think he was really grateful for the time with me. He needn’t have been. I should have been there the whole time. I’m going to make sure I am from now on.

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