ASTRONAUT
Buzz Aldrin was the second man to step on the moon. Sometime back in a television interview, he told of the years of education, the hard work and dedication, the dreams and rigorous discipline he spent preparing for that historic mission with Neil Armstrong to the moon. During the interview, Aldrin also told of his later emotional breakdown and slow, painful recovery. This crisis did not have anything to do with the moon or with space travel or weightlessness. What caused it? Over and over again Buzz Aldrin kept saying that the breakdown resulted from the terrible disillusionment he felt after working so hard, achieving every goal set before him and then finding it all empty when it was over. His dreams, fantastic though they were, were not lasting enough, and his goals were not high enough. The winning in the world, the accomplishments, the awards are all leading toward that kind of disillusionment, if there is not a more substantial base to…
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