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So i log in today to find that it is exactly 1 year from my last post.... kind of weird. I'm not exactly where I thought I'd be, but I'm pretty close. I got through boot camp, qualified as an AO (I finally got my dream job of building weapons), am at the top of all my classes, will probably be given an advanced promotion to Petty Officer 3rd class by the end of next week (August 28th) which takes a normal person 2.5 years to get too. I'm proud to be serving my country, and am very good at it. I got my weight down from 245lbs to 190lbs in the last year, have bigger biceps now than when I played football - i bench ab==just over 200lbs, can dead lift a 500lb bomb, and run about 7 miles 3 times a week. I feel good (except for the sun burns from this hot Florida sun). I've made really good friends in the past few months, but still miss all th ones I have back home. Sometimes I stop and think about how happy I would have been if certain "events" never happened, how I could things would have been different or perhaps better; but things did happen, and events did occur, and there's nothing I can do about it but learn from my errors and try to better myself. I'm constantly told that I am a honestly good guy, one of the few out there that are dying off; if that's who I am then so be it, but why do the nice guys always have the worst luck?
This isn't some "whoa is me" type of monologue, but rather a peaked point of interest and provocation of further thought.
My friends find it peculiar that when posed with the question of "what if they apologized and asked for you to take them back" I always answer "yes, because I loved them and still do to this day. Love has never been the issue, its trust. How badly can loyalty be betrayed before its impossible to forgive? If you can look them in the eyes and see that you still love them, then nothing else matters".
Like I said, good guys are hard to come by.
AO/AN Hinton, USN
This isn't some "whoa is me" type of monologue, but rather a peaked point of interest and provocation of further thought.
My friends find it peculiar that when posed with the question of "what if they apologized and asked for you to take them back" I always answer "yes, because I loved them and still do to this day. Love has never been the issue, its trust. How badly can loyalty be betrayed before its impossible to forgive? If you can look them in the eyes and see that you still love them, then nothing else matters".
Like I said, good guys are hard to come by.
AO/AN Hinton, USN