Know Yourself and Seek Self Improvement Options

[fameONE]

Being able to freely roam around with worrying about a Drill Instructor bustin' my chops is a lovely feeling. Even better, being able to freely roam about the world as a United States Marine is like a natural high. I love every second of being part of the Scarlett and Gold. But last night, I was hit with a harsh reality...

Even though I finally got myself together, moved on and decided to do something positive with my life, I find that a lot of my so-called "friends" and acquaintances that I've met over the years aren't doing shit with theirs, and, have no ambition or motivation for betterment.

At this point, the last thing I want to be around is a bunch of pothead drunks. I grew up a hell of a lot in Recruit Training, thats for damned sure, but I'm fully aware that there is so much more to life than working a menial job, easing your way through junior college, occupying the same lame parties and not really seeing a better way.

This isn't meant to target anyone specifically or offend anyone. However, if it does strike close to home then, f**k, do some soul-searching or some type of ill reflection eternal type shit. Right before I left the Depot (Marine Corps Recuit Depot, that is), my idol (Guns DeLeon), made it perfectly clear that, now that I've earned my spot in the brotherhood; I'm better than most people.

I didn't really buy into that. Yes, civilians are nasty, disgusting creatures that don't know the meaning of physical fitness, but I don't walk around with a superiority complex. But lemme tell yous, after witnessing firsthand that many of those I use to kick it with aren't going to amount to anything, I understand that, well, I am better.

My question to everyone now is; What are you doing with your life? If you read this and realize that you're not on the up and up, then what are your goals?

[danginja]

I'm doing a lot with my life actually just being the last year of my high school career. Engineering job making/test missiles such and such. I know what you mean when you say people are just wasting there lives right now just doing nothing. My brother is in the army right now and I bet when he comes back he'll have the same mindset as you do right now.

The hardest war is the war in ourselves.

[*Kathleen*]

The hardest war is the war in ourselves.

Ah yes, and that reminds me of this quote:

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

:x ANYWHO to actually respond to the first post, it's funny because I won't ever hear the end of rants/tirades/schpiels like that from my dad, who served the Marines for ten years. I told him I was thinking of joining after high school, and he laughed at me. Anywho, I don't know.. I think I'm fairly content with how my life is going.. I don't drink or waste my time with drugs.. My only problem is the fact that I've set my goals so high in life that the possibilities for me are slim, and my parents see through that and try to avert me from them. Bah. I guess I'll figure it out. I'm only seventeen.