The Power of the Story

Today I was attending a Toastmasters speech contest and one of the speakers gave a rendition of an event that happened to him at 13 years of age that has obviously marked his reality for a lifetime and at this point he is probably in his late 60's.
He had been in attendance at early Hitler rallies as a youth of 13 and later became a minion of the Hitler Agenda. He obviously is deeply disturbed by his participation and is troubled lest the same thing should happen again to some other "innocent" as he put it.
Upon deeper questioning and conversation it seems that from a very early age this man had been conditioned to follow rather than lead, to accept authority rather than engage critical thinking, from his father, from the men in authority in his life and finally from Hitler.
As a result the story that he tells himself is that men of Authority have steered him wrong and he has proof that he is correct.
When invited to look for the men who had a message of any sort that had been benevolent and who had done good in the world he really didn't have a story only what he did not want.
I invite myself to remember the examples of the right and good things that I have experienced in my life.
All is truly well
Aloha