Ah ha. Now I know about vulnerability. Let me digress.
When I was doing my firefighters training last week, we had to put on our heavy protective gear, complete with full breathing apparatus (think Darth Vader meets a Canary) and go into burning building. I will be honest and say, there was a degree of terror in Bemused, yes he felt rather vulnerable. I had to trust my equipment (if I took my mask off and breathed I'd be dead) and my colleagues implicitly, especially when we went in the last time to do a simulated search and rescue operation and the dummy was heavy that I had to drag out.
But despite feeling vulnerable, I did it and the sense of achievement is wonderful. For now I know I have the skills and confidence to go into a fire without panicking or doing something stupid (well more stupid than I usually do
).
Of course there is considerable risk going into fires, but being trained and wearing the right equipment makes it a more acceptable risk. As a firefighter we
will go into danger to save a life, we
may go into some danger to save property but we
will not endanger our own lives to save what is lost or definitely already dead.
And that is a pretty good analogy for applying to our own situations, me thinks.
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