>>140731Wow...Uhm, deal.
Backstory I guess would be the fuel to what started me in the whole direction I'm in.
Grew up with divorced parents, huge military background, screwed up in school, thought I was a hard ass know it all, had a lot of weight on my shoulders that I had no reason to be carrying in the first place (Read: typical teenage angst)
So, I hit 17, Talked to a recruiter, make my folks proud, education, adventure, all that, so I signed on.
With one little hitch commonly known as a psycho girlfriend. On again off again BS, you know the drill. But I got my first taste of being away from home in my junior-senior summer spent at Basic. Had culture shock from all the different folks I met and ended up finding who I am without my history. I excelled in everything and by the end of the cycle I was the only "student leadership" that hadn't been 'fired' in the entire battalion earning myself some advanced acceleration something or rather. So after summer I went back to the grind of my old town and started my final year in highschool.
It was weird readjusting to it, not that the army made me hard or anything but I caught that adventure bug and my psycho girlfriend was into that sort of thing.
I figured she was going to be the only one who would stick life out with me and I proposed.
Only to find her in bed with my best friend a week later. (dodged that one.) It gets shady and messed up because she was pregnant and ended up having an abortion. I'll never know if it was my child or not but those people are cut from my life now. I started realizing I needed to live in the moment and treat things genuinely in hopes that if they're people they will do the same for me. I stopped seeing people as minor characters and myself as a star role and really started listening to what they had to say, their genuine opinions ( and taking them to heart) or their genuine ignorance (and spreading tried and true experience).
I'm paraphrasing and I apologize but I -
