I was talking to satori in an agitated state. “People just don’t think I’ll pull the trigger.”
“You’re exactly the person who I would put in charge of the trigger, because I know you’ll pull it.”
“I will pull it.” I mentioned my ex, The AMF. “He didn’t think I could pull the trigger.”
“No.”
“Well he was wrong. I told him I would and when I did, big surprise. He didn’t think I was capable of leaving him. I was totally capable.”
“Yes. If the trigger is to be pulled, you’ll do it.”
“That’s interesting,” I said. “My husband said there was a guy he worked with in missiles who asked him one day, if we’re actually supposed to launch the missile, will we really do it? Will we turn the keys? He told him if he did not turn the key, he himself would shoot the guy. This was their job and that was the protocol. I don’t know how he could think it was a joke.”
Can you pull a trigger when it’s time? How does this help or hinder you?
34 Responses to “Being Willing To Pull The Trigger”
I could have written this. People don’t believe me when I say I am going to do something. Actually men in particular have not believed exactly that — that I was capable of leaving them.
It’s because in relationship I am very open, accepting, and I’ll put up with a lot. But if I look dead at you and say — if this doesn’t improve, I’m gone — I am not kidding. It will happen. It’s the hardest thing in the world for a Libra/Scorpio to do because I become deeply invested — but I will do it.
I think this is an unfortunate state of affairs for my relationships. If they had taken me seriously to begin with I might have still been there.
I can do it. I am pretty accepting of peoples flaws to the point that they think they will be able to bullshit me forever. Until I pull the trigger. Then I never look back.
@ lilithplutoniangirl – yes. exactly.
Yes. Aries Mars and Aries SN. People know this about me and usually the only people who feign surprise I’ve pulled the trigger are those who were hoping I wouldn’t.
It helps me.
I don’t pull the trigger without lots of contemplation, but I can and have pulled the trigger. I’ve never regretted it!
Yes. It helps on a root level. I don’t sabotage myself with self-doubt. I know that when push comes to shove I do what I need to do. I didn’t always feel like this, it took a few ghastly failures to build this integrity from the inside out. Mars in Leo.
my father always told me never to point a gun at anyone unless i fully intended to shoot them. and then do it.
it seems wise advice, in general.
of course i would. metaphorically, i have, once i’ve realized i needed to.
maybe it’s the 8th house. or pluto. or aries. i dunno. there are points when things become crystal clear… and any delay in action is only going to create serious problems.
people don’t expect me to, though. i think they see the virgo and think i’m too “sweet” or “pure” to do something like that.
I don’t know if I would or not. I suspect that I wouldn’t. So I know I shouldn’t get the gun out. I would just be putting myself in more danger of the offender using it on me.
On an emotional level, I have pulled the ‘trigger’ once and I expect I am capable of doing it again if it becomes necessary.
If you know that you have to pull the trigger and you don´t, your life will be miserable.
Many will choose misery over pulling the trigger. The real question is not whether you’ll pull the trigger when you have no choice, but whether you’ll pull the trigger when you DO have a choice.
I tend to second guess myself, so it’s hard for me to pull the trigger….but when it absolutely needs to be done, it’s done.
I’ve done it twice with 2 marriages, but only after several years of painstaking preparation so that I have someplace and something to go to, after I’ve pulled the trigger. Both men lived to regret they pushed me that far. It’s a shame because I warned both of them repeatedly, and either they didn’t beleive me or didn’t care..until it was too late. I have no regrets.
Yes. I. Am.
Remaining neutral, a.k.a. sitting on the fence, in order to avoid declaring WAR, becausing war is so fucking uncivilized, that’s an enormous energy block. Pulling the trigger is bracing; there’s a this-is-who-I-am quality to it.
I just lived this this past week and I’m feeling a whole lot clearer about what I value and who I am.
It’s about what what one is willing to kill for.
I won’t pull a trigger. I don’t think I ever have. Or ever will. And nobody should believe me if I ever claim I am going to, because I have wussed out and second guessed myself a billion times and never done it. I have just never been fully convinced that anyone should be made dead for good, I suppose.
The thread brings to mind this poem written before the turn of the last century. It speaks to the way evil seems to come against good.
“You have no enemies, you say?
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
- No Enemies, by Charles MacKay
And yet some quiet, retiring soul has lived a life of perfection and passed on to receive their spiritual reward.
What is the goal? Creating change, effecting people, growing spiritually?
The world needs all kinds.
I’ve pulled the trigger. It’s a dang ol process getting there. But I know I’m capable. It’s usually when I get sick of vacillating. It’s usually when it’s do or die. If you back me into a corner and it’s either me or you, you are going to lose. I am waaaay tougher than I look.
well I have a saying and it goes like this once I have gotten to the point where I have stood all I can stands and I can’t stands no more then a decision must be made and that usually ends with me deciding I am totally done. I guess you can say I pull the trigger and walk out, so yep I can so pull the trigger.
I have no problem doing what needs to be done if it is necessary. Even the hard stuff, or especially the hard stuff.
I’d pull the trigger only out of despair, like a frighten dog who becomes coraugeouse out of its fear and atacks or bites…
Nobody thinks I won’t do it. Aries in the 8th I guess. Let’s clean this shit up.
On a contrary point, when I was younger I pulled the trigger too soon (amputated) in a relationship or a friendship out of insecurity/sensitivity and regretted it! Will I pull the trigger? Yes. Should I think before I pull the trigger? Hell yes! Make sure I think long and hard about what I’m doing. LOL!
Like many 3d decan caps, I am quite ruthless when pushed to it.
When sh*t goes down, eris on mc helps me pull. I never start a war, but that bitch will sure finish it.
I can pull the trigger and do. I’ve never had trouble, but learning patience and when to hang on a bit, has been very rewarding 
Angie
Yes, I will.
I will definitely pull the trigger. People are generally surprised by it, too; I’m short, cute, and fat, man… I’m not supposed to do shit like that! *laughs*
I will say that I don’t always pull the trigger when I should, though. Give ‘em another chance, give ‘em another chance, give ‘em another… oh, fuck it. 
I think this goes back to the fact that we all have our dark side. Some people are willing to face it and look at it and accept it. The inability to accept that we’re all at fault and we all carry some small piece of that darkness inside of us leads to people shooting wildly, killing indiscriminately.
Looking it in the face and knowing where your boundaries lie in the amount of harm you’re willing to do another person means you’ll willingly and calmly pull the trigger to protect your children, family, friends, etc. And not walk away with remorse every day of your life thereafter. If you don’t look it in the face then you’d better know that you’re not the person to pull the trigger and you’d better not reject or judge the person who IS willing.
Sorry but that is my saturn/mars squared by pluto…..
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I have a very itchy trigger finger. My challenge is not to pull it too quickly.
Today, I will put that into practice quite literally. My husband and I are going target shooting.
LOL. Yes, he is a very brave man.
I’m excited!
But, yes, I can pull the trigger.