<p>Dittos!</p>
<p>The wannabe is ALWAYS the precursor apprentice to “Willbe” and the great “I am!” </p>
<p>As you’ve discovered, genuine advice is not always what we so hope to hear, and rather, what we need to hear. No offense intended. One of the lessons might be don’t ask if you can’t be told. </p>
<p>And #2 might be that becoming a SEAL requires total coachability, teamwork, and a right attitude. Lone rangers can get lonely in this pursuit.</p>
<p>Your mom sounds like a very loving woman of great wisdom who presumably knows her son well. Stick close to her. I’m confident her counsel is as well-meant as that you’ve gotten here. And I’m more confident her desires for your joy exceed those for her own.</p>
<p>Keep us posted and prove us all to have been dumbern fenceposts and similarly unwise. You’d not be the first to expose that. Break a leg!</p>
<p>And may it be some compensation that you and I agree that NAPS isn’t for you.</p>