Of all the whacky news that I ingest daily, this astronaut angle has me confounded. Been mulling it over in my pinky head and cannot conclusively or satisfactorily digest what I’ve been reading. it boggles me that someone with such a stellar career and enviable success can be fallible on such a colossal level.
I devour every bit of published information on the web as to attempt to comprehend what would push a highly intelligent person to commit such a violent and despicable act. Some people inferred that she was perhaps momentarily insane, possible alcohol or drug induced, and caved to the intense pressure of her emotions. Some experts claim that she suffered from mental anguish, that pressure from her career and livelihood was unbearable and inexplicably destroyed her sense of rationale. While only Lisa Nowak can really attest to her mental state, it’s plausible that she was not prepared for pressure from her emotions – as we’ve all seen with OJ Simpson.
Shaking my head as I cannot imagine the rage or thought process Nowak must have experienced to cause her to risk her entire life, liberty, and family to pepper spray a woman that was interested in a fellow astronaut she allegedly was infatuated with. It’s deeply disturbing that someome as accomplished as Nowak can fall off the sanity wagon, as it signals to the rest of us that we’re screwed. If rationale did not prevail for Nowak, an engineer selected by NASA to fly in the space mission and to join their elite club of space incorps, then what hope does the rest of us have when our emotions strike us. Lets just hope we have a good criminal defense attorney, or is one.
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