A Change In Life That I Sure Didn't Want

So in choosing a path in life, you make your choice and you run with.  Sometimes that choice is a good one and other times...well it isn't.  I took a path about a year ago that was an awesome path.  I had done everything to prepare myself for what was coming.  However the sad part of this little story is doing everything to prepare wasn't enough because my body (in particular my knees) said fuck this and I'm not doing it.  So after trying for so long to become an Army Diver, I had to sadly drop out of the class.  It was a very sad day and I am still wishing that there was another option.  However the options were continue and risk permanently injuring my knees, or take two weeks off and pray that they perfectly heal themselves back to how they were when I was 16.  Seeing as the latter is not possible, I elected to drop course before I hurt myself beyond repair.  So now the Army has picked my path for the next 3 years of my life.  Field Artillery here I come as a Cannon Crewman.  Let's see how this pans out....

Is This Really The Right Road

How many times in life does this happen.  You are happy with your life, everything is going well.  Seems like everything is falling into place like it should and then WHAM, everything just feels off.  Is it the "grass is always greener on the other side" theory or is just being stuck in limbo between the life you are currently living and the life that you have ahead of you.  The life that starts in a few months or days.  It's like waiting for a promotion that you are not sure you want.  I mean the money will be good, the travel will be awesome, but is it really what is best for the life that you are currently living, for those that are traveling that road of life with you.  Sometimes it would be nice to just be able to let it all go and start over.  Let everything go and try again.  Sometimes it feels that the road that we have chosen for ourselves is not the best road for those that are traveling it with us.  What do you do in that situation, let them go?  Hope that they are happy on the road with you even though it wasn't what they had planned at all in their life?  These are the questions that are hard to talk about with those traveling with you.  You want them with you, but are scared that they are giving things up that they want for what, a road that you chose because the life you were living wasn't working out for you.  Live with the thoughts that they someday will regret traveling with you or just forget about it all and go with it.  I guess we'll just find out.

Take Advice or Shut Up

Have you ever had a good friend or a family member come to you with a problem?  Of course you have.  It happens on a daily basis.  Now, have you ever given that friend or family member advice?  You probably have.  Now, when that friend or family member basically tells you that your advice sucks, it really makes you want to not give them advice ever again.  So when you have a friend or a family member that is constantly telling you about their problems yet do nothing to try to fix them, makes you really want to just not say anything to them anymore.  In fact it really makes you want to just tell that person to shut the hell up and deal with it.  People who aren't willing to take advice or council should not talk about their problems.  It really is annoying to have someone just bitch and moan all the time but never do anything to help themselves.  So if you are one of those people or know someone that is, here is my two cents...Shut the Fuck up and face your own problems.  Then when it bites you in the ass, I'll laugh at you and say "Should have listened huh?!?!"

For All the Lonely and Sad Women

So this goes out to all of the women who are in your mid 20's and desperately in love with someone that you can't have.  Let me just say this, the reason that you are still not married and not in a relationship is because you are still hopelessly in love with someone that you can't have.  Whether this person is someone from high school, college, or please god don't say a movie star or musician you need to get over it and move on with your life.  So when you get together with the rest of your friends that are in the same position as you, sadly single wishing that you had a dream guy that doesn't even know you are alive please refrain from telling everybody around you that he is in love with you and that the song he wrote is for you.  It is just sad and pathetic.  Please grow up and stop acting like a junior high girl with a crush on the quarter back and get a life.  There is nothing that will turn a guy off faster than listening to a bunch of grown girls talk about how their dream guy just hasn't found them yet.
(if you haven't figured it out yet there was a bunch of these girls at a recent concert that I was at)

The Minority Can Shove It

So why is it that the great majority of people have to change what we do because of a small amount of people that complain.  And why is it that the when the changes take place that we don't ever want to contest them and make the minority feel like they are just complete idiots.  Here is a perfect example.  Many school districts across the country have taken the pledge of allegiance out of the morning routine because it says under God and some people don't believe in God.  Here is the bottom line, "God" is a title for a supreme being that someone believes in.  There are many types of God's, but regardless your religion you believe in a supreme being.  So why is it so bad to say "under God" in the pledge of allegiance and why does that offend people.  Those that choose to be atheist can stand and not say the pledge.  Easy as that.  But for those that still believe in some supreme being and want to remember how our country was won and where the pledge came from we should be able to still stand and say it on a daily basis.  Why do we pull it from our schools because people are offended?  After all this is America.  If you lived in China, you would be forced to do what they say and that is that.  So really, stand your ass up and say the pledge, show your pride for the country that allows you to be who you want to be.  And when the word "God" is said, think of your supreme being and what you believe in.  Don't be a pussy and let those that are just ass holes win.

More Broken Personal Promises?

For most people, New Years Eve comes with making new New Years resolutions.  For most these resolutions only last for about a month or two if lucky and then they are done.  Why is it that they never last?  Do we make them to hard?  Do we make them unrealistic?  Or do we just give up?  Which ever it is, I urge all of us to actually make resolutions that will be something that we can do for a full year.  It could be as simple as making sure that you don't sleep in all day, or that you pick up after your kids in public places.  Other's have work out goals, make them realistic.  Don't say I'll lose "X" amount of pounds, just say that you will work out 5 days a week.  It's inevitable that if you are working out that you will lose weight.  All I'm saying to everyone is make goals that you can achieve and stick with and everyone will have a great year.  Hope you make your New Years a great one.

So This Is Christmas?

Christmas, the biggest holiday for most people of the year.  Oddly I just said year and years are something that keep coming without fail.  So why is it that every year, on the 23rd and 24th of December people decide to start shopping for Christmas.  That is just a bunch of crap.  They have over 360 other days in the year to go shopping and to purchase gifts.  Why wait to the last two days?  Well...cause you are a dumb ass.  Yet being a dumbass does not give you the right to yell at the innocent employee at whatever store you are shopping at because the popular toy is out of stock and your little girl needs that toy.  You should have thought about that before the last two days before Christmas.  Please people, don't punish others because you can't be a responsible adult and do things in a timely matter.  It's amazing that during the remaining 363 days of the year you are not a responsible adult and ignore your family and then all of the sudden when it comes Christmas time you need to be a parent.  Really, gifts are just gifts.  If you really want to give your kids something special, pay attention to them during the rest of the year.  Oh, and stop being rude, hurtful and just plain disrespectful to others during this happy time of year.  Eat your own shit and get over it.  You missed the deadline and that's your problem.