The case of Peter

After separation from his family, Peter went AWOL in a short period of depression. And when he came to, he decided to upgrade his skills and to find a job and new life elsewhere. After realizing his chances of finding a job locally were remote, he equipped himself with a new plan and enrolled at University to improve his chances.

Driven with new found energy to achieve a certificate, he got on with the job. On the first term, lectures were attended and papers researched; a novelty until all of a sudden he felt something was happening. Peter was picking up hostile messages from university students and teachers alike. He became a subject of a psychological experiment as the Police among other professionals were publicly profiling the South Auckland serial rapist. Peter connected the dots and he came to terms with a psychological reality.

Halfway through the term, Peter couldn't concentrate on his study as he became increasingly paranoid. He left and sought help at a mental asylum. The search for the psychological serial rapist stepped up another notch, but whether it was part of a psychological environmental creation, Peter's nerves were disconnected as he was falling apart. To this he was introduced to experience the effects of psychotic drugs in an attempt to null his brain under the label 'schizophrenic'.

Living on the edge of mental sabotage, his nerves were wrecked and emotionally crippled as he attempted to hold on to reality. He moved from health care to half way houses and was introduced to share the experience of persons suffering from mental illness. Instead of nullifying his brain with psychotic drugs, Peter attempted to think through the experience. The psychological experiment damaged his nerves but he had managed to save his mind. And considering his ordeal in a psychological environment, he is lucky to be alive today.

But he is left with a social phobia and a nerve disorder of the central nervous system. No one among the professionals from the university or lawyers and counselors admitted to any experiment. Pete had to get on with life, and the very reason he wanted to improve his chances is back on the agenda, but his profile is now public domain with extraneous attachment. He is turned down before even attempting to find a job. He is denied services or relegated to the back of the queue.

The coercive treatment is felt in the gutter, but something else picked him up. This is the difference unique to Peter and remains a valuable personal experience. He is privileged to have experienced such extraordinary phenomenon.

Peter is classified an invalids status, but he engaged in a self help community program helping others. Slowly his therapy was nursing his nerves as he is confronted by the very regime which savaged his humanity in the first place. They are professional personnel involved in community agencies, who continue with the same psychological treatment of targeted subjects, the targets of political agenda.

After ten years of voluntary work as he helped his nerves and preserved his mind, his only form of income is terminated without warning. Considering his illness was a result of a deliberate and professional method of brainwashing innocent individuals, his persecution continues as he is treated with no respects or dignity and without human rights.

The fate of Peter is decided by powers beyond him as he holds on to sanity. It is the difference that makes sense in his isolation and alienation. This sanity has restored some feelings where Peter has re-established his relationship with his family. It is what has now almost restored his sanity in coordination with his nerves, his feelings and thinking. It is his belief that saved him in times of darkness. It is the only rock of stability in foreign land where we as strangers have no rights, and are treated without respects or dignity.

Whether you have ended up in prison, on the streets, or in a hospital, whether it's your fault or not, don't lose faith. It is your rock of salvation. Let all those anger and helplessness go and learn to forgive. It is the practice of humility to forgive your trespassers as if you are worth the savaged treatment. Learn to be humbled in the face of adversity. It is at the bottom of the gutter where you will realize extraordinary enlightenment. But you need faith in order to realize the power of God and the possibility of miracles.

Pete doesn't know where to get the next feed, but in all the darkness he was thrown into, he had never resort to evil! Starving for a day or two can definitely help with obesity, and during the lent season it is experience as we reflect upon the principles of humility in temptation. It is humility to ask for help and be known as such. But you are breaking barriers of submergence in the dark of emotional and material self. Think of Jesus and his persecution for no reason of his own other than to speak the truth. He is spat on, beaten, humiliated and left at the bottom of the gutter.

Learn to be humble in the face of adversity. You will experience the result in the long run. You will understand the nature of evil as you remain peaceful within yourself even if you have nothing but the shirt on your back.

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