User:Tonyleeking

We say a lot of things, we really do. We say them. We hear others say things and we like parrots repeat what we hear. "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Ever heard that? Or how about this one, "Knowledge is power." Yes? You probably heard that one. We hear a lot, we repeat what we hear a lot. But allow me to pose the question; do we listen to what we hear? Do we ask ourselves the meaning of what it is we are hearing? Do we listen?

I endeavor to do that, and I think it has been the most valuable asset I possess. Yes, knowing something can be useful; it can give one freedom to act against fear. Fear, we often fail to realize how strong a deterrent that emotion can be for us. Of course it does act as a self-preservation mechanism, like when that tiger starts to chase us, it is fear that makes our legs work like never before! But that is not what I refer to here. Man's biggest hurdle, the doubt form of it. To fear something, I have found, means only that we do not know what the result or outcome will be of what it is we should do in any case. We fail to act as our intellect tells us that we should out of fear of knowing what the outcome will be.

Secondly, we fear failure. We are afraid we will not obtain what we want, so we do nothing.

Thirdly, of course knowing something someone else does not is powerful, or it can be if employed effectively.

I think that knowing when someone else does not, and knowing he fears and I ignore the same feelings in myself? Then the world, or a large share of it, becomes mine for the taking.

About me: Anthony Lee King? I am a man who was born in the United States of a military father (Ivan Lee King) and a mother (Eunice Sparks) who was looking to move up in life by marrying a military man. The marriage ended in divorce, she liked the marriage, she did not like the rules of marriage, I do not think my father was a big fan of those rules either. So rather than agree to change to rules to fit, they as many have done, lied to each other about their extramarital activities and both caught each other. The marriage was over, if in fact it really ever began in the way it should have.

My father was a career navy man, I was raised mostly in Naples and a small town named Gaeta in Italy, where the US Navy had its Sixth Fleet based.

I am the only child of this marriage, but do have 5 siblings from my mother's side as she was previously married. I am the youngest of the lot, i.e. last one born. I am a man who loves to learn and travel is part of that learning process. I have ventured into most every corner of the Earth since my arrival into the USA when I was 15 years old. I speak several languages. I think that knowledge really is power. I think that it is power, above money, is a resource to gain and hold on to. I also believe strongly that one should listen more, talk less.

I have a strong sense of duty. I think that loyalty is a variation of this thing we call duty. Loyalty, or being loyal to another or to one's self (the most important kind of loyalty) is a matter of simply having enough confidence in my own decision-making to hold on when all others doubt me, or when I am briefly withheld from employing my senses to assure myself that I am still doing the right thing, I trust instead that I have made the right choice for the right reasons and I stick to that choice, holding my ground when it is the darkest, when I have nothing but what is inside me to assure me I am still on the correct path. To me, I am careful to enter into a promise because I know I will fulfill it no matter what, I am careful of what I am loyal to, because my loyalty is not failing, and also I know to always be true, to myself and others, about what I think I am, how I feel about others, and why. Be true to thy self, which is most important... to me. I listen, learn, and grow. I hope never to stop.