Life is not fun all the time but WE deal with it –
That is a thought I have just about every day lately, not sure why I am letting gloomy thoughts bother me each and every day lately, but we all get gloomy thoughts now and then. Guess I will blame the gloom on the weather…Smiles.
As I get older I find my days tend to be visited by gloom more than I want, guess that is due to getting old and all that comes with getting older. These are the days I tend to look back on my young...er days and remember what my parents and grandparents were saying and how they dealt with life and realize I am just like them.
That is a thought I have just about every day lately, not sure why I am letting gloomy thoughts bother me each and every day lately, but we all get gloomy thoughts now and then. Guess I will blame the gloom on the weather…Smiles.
As I get older I find my days tend to be visited by gloom more than I want, guess that is due to getting old and all that comes with getting older. These are the days I tend to look back on my young...er days and remember what my parents and grandparents were saying and how they dealt with life and realize I am just like them.
The only difference is just a different day and different year with some minor differences due to my being in the military. Seems like the times they are a changing but the facts of life tend to stay the same or something like that. What do you expect in the way of wisdom from a shadow who never thought he would see the ripe old age of 26 and now finds himself at the age of 63?
If you read my entries in ShadowSleuth on rememory.com and JournalThoughts on opendiary.com you will learn that I lived a very quite and secluded life in the way off land of Texas until my 19th birthday. Just days before my birthday I was spirited off to military life at Fort Lewis, WA; Fort Gordon, GA; Nah Trang, Viet Nam; Can Tho, Viet Nam, and Fort Hood, TX, where my life changed dramatically.
The 1970s were upon us, the world was or seemed to be coming to an end (sound familiar), we were at war in far off lands, we were having unrest in the U.S. and I was sure my life, like the lives of many others would end over in the jungles of Viet Nam.
Check out the many military memories I have written about, real and not so real or something like that, and you will see what it was like to be 19 or so in 1970s and how weird life was in those war years.
One must remember my early years were filled with the Waco Tornado, Atomic Bomb testing, Duck and Cover Atomic Bomb Drills in school, Backyard bomb shelters, Cuban Missile Crisis, Assassinations of the Kennedy's, Viet Nam on TV and for real and so on.
Living life in the military like it was the last days was fun and exciting but those times take a tole on your body and in my case I felt the ripe old age of 25 would be the last year I would see due to living life on the edge, and the type job worked.
My 25th year arrived and I was still around so my thoughts on life changed and had to come up with a new plan for living life past 25!
Since I turned 25 some 38+ years ago, life has been good but my life has gone in so many different directions, none of which I planned. Do not get me wrong, my life has been wild, exciting, fun, hard, weird, tragic, and yet filled with love, friendship, family and friends.
If you read my entries in ShadowSleuth on rememory.com and JournalThoughts on opendiary.com you will learn that I lived a very quite and secluded life in the way off land of Texas until my 19th birthday. Just days before my birthday I was spirited off to military life at Fort Lewis, WA; Fort Gordon, GA; Nah Trang, Viet Nam; Can Tho, Viet Nam, and Fort Hood, TX, where my life changed dramatically.
The 1970s were upon us, the world was or seemed to be coming to an end (sound familiar), we were at war in far off lands, we were having unrest in the U.S. and I was sure my life, like the lives of many others would end over in the jungles of Viet Nam.
Check out the many military memories I have written about, real and not so real or something like that, and you will see what it was like to be 19 or so in 1970s and how weird life was in those war years.
One must remember my early years were filled with the Waco Tornado, Atomic Bomb testing, Duck and Cover Atomic Bomb Drills in school, Backyard bomb shelters, Cuban Missile Crisis, Assassinations of the Kennedy's, Viet Nam on TV and for real and so on.
Living life in the military like it was the last days was fun and exciting but those times take a tole on your body and in my case I felt the ripe old age of 25 would be the last year I would see due to living life on the edge, and the type job worked.
My 25th year arrived and I was still around so my thoughts on life changed and had to come up with a new plan for living life past 25!
Since I turned 25 some 38+ years ago, life has been good but my life has gone in so many different directions, none of which I planned. Do not get me wrong, my life has been wild, exciting, fun, hard, weird, tragic, and yet filled with love, friendship, family and friends.
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