Peace...I'm Outta Here
So....This just may be the last post to LJ for a while. Your little Boy, Little Jolie Wolie is about to take his final flight and final test at Western, as a college student, make that a 7 year not even a doctor college student. In the next few weeks I will be a certified Multi and single engine commercial pilot, moving back to my home town with good ole Momma and Dadda for a while, and looking for that one job that will make things happen. The last 7 years has been a ride, many many many ups, with the occasional downs here and there. Started out at WMU for about 1 month, met some cool people, and than dropped out, came back to Monroe for community for three years. Community was, well, nothing more than the glorified high school. I already knew most of the people in my classes. I did know what I wanted to do with my life but since I wasn't quite there, I didn't take school seriously at all. I would take maybe three classes a semester which would end up as dropping one of them, failing another, and maybe squeaking by with the third. I met some unique characters during that time, thought of myself quite the rebel, and didn't really care too much for anything. That I started to get my act sorta together and got back into Western. I will never forget the feeling of my first day back to WMU. Nervous as hell, wondering what my roommate would be like, wondering what classes would be like, wondered how it would be to solo my first time. The last 3 to 4 years have been truly amazing. A lot of stuff has gone down. Whether it was throwing shit out a window at 4 in the morning, taking late night drives just to get put of the dorms with the roommate, friends surprising me at all times of the night with a happy birthday blueberry cheesecake, staying up all night listening to Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd with a good friend, stealing shit out of the dorms, taking long walks around campus listening to my CD player, protest rallies, crazy 1203 and 418 parties, car sledding in the back streets of Kazo, Trey sledding, spooky nights sneaking into the insane asylum, my first solo, which came my first tattoo, all of the classes, ohhhh all the classes, the millions of aviation classes, and the classes that wont really help anything like my jogging class, my failed attempts at flight, my successful flights, heading out to South Haven to stroll on the beach at Sun down, the awesome roommates I have had, which leads to the fights about dishes;), the trips to Buffalo Wild Wings, eating in the Caf, going through break ups and while your world seems to be crashing down, God offers a church that helped me see true Grace, which in turn helped me go to Philly, Nawlins, and Biloxi for mission trips and made me grow as a young adult. Realizing that your in Love with one of your best friends, and that one girl....made everything worth living for. God had to do a little slap to the head for the one;)....the trips home for the weekends, the trips to Chicago, the trips with rommies to Pennsylvania listening to The Killers new CD the entire way, all of the thunderstorms and snow falls, the works bombs, the countless hours I ate hamburgers, drank beer and played NHL hitz after class, the countless hours I made the plan to start exercising and made if for like a day, and finally, doing what I did best...day dream....day dreamt all day, all night, through class, even through church. Dreaming of what my life will be like, what kind of people will I meet, what will my home look like, what will my wedding look like, and kids, will I get the chance to fly all of the crazy planes and jobs I want to??....I really don't know about any of them I guess, but I am going to keep dreaming my heart away....the world is our Oyster my friends, lets make those dreams come true, strive to do what we have always thought about in the back of our heads. I have learned a lot in the past 7 years, maybe I should have learned more....but its been a damn good ride and I will miss it. To my friends, thank you for everything, whether you read this or not, I couldn't have gotten anywhere without ya. I really don't know when I will post again, maybe soon, maybe not, going to try to lay off the computer for awhile.....but until than, I will ride off into the sunset and tell ya I Love Ya All!!!!! Clark Out!!