“You’ve changed man” That’s what a friend of mine at work told me the other night as we were chatting about my experience during the two hurricanes. I asked her how I had changed in the five weeks since we last met, she said I’d gotten a bit bolder an outspoken, not that it was not a good thing and all but just surprised a lot of my co-workers. My family told me when I asked them about that, was that I seemed a bit more mature than I was. Now I wonder to myself how much I have changed due to my experiences, I know that I have changed in my way of thinking. Certain things I use to worry about at work and in life just don’t bother me like they use to, when I did get back I took a few days off of work to well get used to being “civilian” again. This was the first time I have ever deployed out for such a long time, so my world view is way different that what it was while I was out. I”ll give an example of why I took a few days off when I got back, I “am standing in line at the local waldo-mart grabbing a few items that I dearly missed while I was away. Behind me two women start up a conversation about how pissed off they were because a certain brand of coffee was out because of shipping problems with IKE. At that moment I really wanted to turn around and let them know they should be happy that they even have some @^&* coffee to buy. But I was being civil as best I can and just bit my lip payee for my stuff and left on out of there. Another thing that has changed as I’ve noticed is how I’ve really simplified a lot of things; my room for instance was cluttered up with various junk I never used. So I cleaned it up organized it and made it look nicer than it was, another one is my choice of food not as picky anymore when I go out to eat and everything served in front of me gets gobbled up. So I have changed, in a few ways in other still the same I “am afraid but working on it
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What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself
29 Sep 2008, 2:39 pm
