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- Konnichi wa.

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Hi, I'm chaplain Martin Johnston,

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the 38th ADA Brigade Chaplain,

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we're coming to you today

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from Machida Squirrel Park.

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We have squirrel, we have
rabbit, we have Guinea pig,

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we have a giant turtle,
we got everything here.

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And continuing our series
of "Resiliency Talks",

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talking today a little
bit about being anxious.

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A few years ago, I was in
church listening to a sermon,

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and the preacher said that
he remembered and appreciated

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the good old days when
he was a little boy.

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And everything was much more innocent

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and everything was much more calm.

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And there was...

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It was a lot better in the world.

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And I thought about what he
was saying and I realized,

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he was the same age as me.

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And he was born in 1961
just as I was born in 1961.

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And I think about what
happened when I was a kid,

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I mean, president
Kennedy was assassinated,

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Bobby Kennedy was assassinated,

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Martin Luther King was assassinated,

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Malcolm X was assassinated,
you had the Watts riots,

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you had the civil rights movement,

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You had all this unrest
from the Vietnam war,

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you had the war itself.

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And the idea that somehow
those were the good old days

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and everything was innocent and he was...

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and things were better than
they are now, is kinda silly.

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As a matter of fact, what
was different was him

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not the circumstances.

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A lot of people are very anxious today

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about what's going on in the world.

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And a couple of things
I wanna say about that,

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first of all, I'm not advocating that

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you just shut out
everything and put yourself

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out of the world and
don't listen to the news

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and don't do anything like that.

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No, I don't think that's the right answer.

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But there was a story told by the Buddha,

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and the Buddha told a story
of, there was once a man

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who was shot with a
poison arrow in his chest.

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And his friends and
neighbors and relatives

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ran and got a doctor that
could come and help him.

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And when the doctor got there,

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the man awoke for just a moment,

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and he looked up at the
surgeon and he said to him,

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"Nope, wait a minute I'm not
going to let you do anything

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to me until I know a couple of things.

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First of all, I wanna know
if the man who shot me

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was a tall man or short man,

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I wanna know if he was
using a bow made out of Oak

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or pine or some other wood.

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And I wanna know the arrow,
were the were the feathers

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from a vulture or from
a Turkey or from an owl,

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and the shaft of the arrow was it made..."

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And he went on and on
with these questions.

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And that man is going to
die without understanding,

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without knowing the
answer to these questions.

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(whirring)

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So much of our anxiety is spent...

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Because we spend much of our
life asking useful questions

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about things we can do nothing about.

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Now it's okay to get involved in whatever

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you wanna get involved in, and you should.

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we should be involved in
making sure people are treated

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with dignity and respect,
whoever they may be.

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But it's quite another thing
to be worried about things

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over which you can't
do anything about them.

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My suggestion is this,
and I've practiced this

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since I was a little kid
and, well a teenager,

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is you take a list and
you can do it in your mind

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but when you first start doing it,

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doing it on a piece of paper.

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write down, "What am I worried about?

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Can I do anything about it?"

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If the answer is no, then you're done.

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If the answer is yes, write
down what you can do about it.

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"Am I doing those things?"

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Yes, then quit worrying about it.

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"Am I not doing those things?"

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Start doing them.

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That's how we get past worry and anxiety.

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Sometimes we let the world come in on us,

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and we can control sometimes
what comes in on us,

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but we can't control the world.

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The only person you can control is you.

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Yoiichinichiwo, have a nice day.

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(whirring)
(truck engine roaring)

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I'm worried that she's gonna
get run over by a truck.

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(murmurs)
(chirping)

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- [Martin] They don't
have to cut the grass

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this turtle does it.
- Yes.

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(chirping)

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Hey big guy, Oh no, Oh no,
this one's climbing up my back,

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Okay.

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( Martin laughing)
Wait, no, no!

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What is going on right now?