Well, time for my .02 cents.
On the positive side:
I've always gotten everything I wanted
I have the best parents an 18 year old can ask for
I'm getting educated to get a better job
We live in an excellent neighborhood
My health is in good condition. (I could loose about 20 Lbs though

On the negative side;
I have no friends
I have no girlfriend (Haven't for 5 years)
I'm usually either at work, school, or my other job, so I have no time to sped with my family.
I do (most of the time) get very depressed because of the no friends/no GF thing

I guess my point is that everyone has their "down" days. It seems to me that everyday lately has been my down day. I find it very boring with no friends, no one to hang out with on the weekends, and do normal "teen" stuff. I was always bought up in a very adult world. Hell, I even acted like an adult when I was in High School. (1 detention, never smoked, blah, blah) It seems to me that us good guys get the crap end of the stick, and the "cool" kids (with the nose rings, and the ricers) get everything else. Sometimes I don't even know what I'm so down all the time. I have a cool truck to keep me company, but yet I have no friends that ride in it with me.
I'm just starting to be friends again with the my ex. (moved, but still lives in the same town, VERY long story on that one) so who knows.

 

i was reading the classifieds just a little bit ago looking for a winter job. right next to the employment section theres the "personals" i really learned how good of friends i have when i glanced over and saw a section that said "seeking friends" i feel for the people who have to place a classified ad just to meet a friend.

right now im watching MTV's "True Life" and i feel like my life is really normal compaired to most of the people on the show.

 

Hmm....I htink the truck alone would keep me happy. Come on down to Arkansas in a few weeks. (Thanksgiving weekend?) We can party, get drunk, what not.....(p.s. I am moving and need help) And maybe we can get you into a one-nighter?.....
You ex? umm...you wehre 13 when you dated right? And there were actually hard feelings? All I cn say is that you are working yourself to hard...but I guess you work two jobs to pay for that nice truck? That sucks....try and take some time off, go out relax, find a nice gal who is not into all the parties and crap...just my .02, however, I am also depressed, and today got worse, seeing as how I jst pissed of a friend on the site...so much that he may have left for good....

 

Jimmy - Maybe I will take a break from work. I'll come down and visit you I think we'd have some fun
When I get depressed, I try and think about the "good" my day has presented itself with. What usually helps is MUSIC. When I turn on the radio, and I hear a song that I like, that makes me feel better. It's hard to explain, it just does.

 

Well, if you are in for a trip, you are more than welcome, I will soon have a house on base all to myself. When I get the extra furniture from my gal I should have a guest room, until then I also have a cot and sleeping bag, you or anyone else is always more than welcome to come down jsut email me first please

 

Thanks It's good to know that a fellow FTE'er is welcome. Any of you guys are always welcomed to my part of the woods to. We have plenty of guest rooms. Heck, all you guys can sleep in the house, I'll sleep in my truck outside

 

Ahhhahaha ..that is my one rule..noone, and I mean noone is allowed to sleep in my bed except em and my gal. Regardless of the fact that we can easily sleep ten people in htat King size....

 

I was an officer in the Aussie Marine Corps. For the last ten years of service, I was attached to the UN. I was active service in every armed conflict that happened anywhere in the world from 1968 to 1993. I have been about everywhere, done most things, and being retired is so boring. I see no future as a poster on the FTE relating most of my experiences. There are women, and children here that probably would be grateful to be spared the gory details of my career.

If anyone tells you being a chaplain is not an active job, do not believe them. Chaplains are much the same as medics.. Skilled in one variant but required to excel in the profession of the unit. I carried the same weaponry as the unit, ate the same, slept in the same place, saw action with them and was in command after an action promotion left me the only officer available. After that it was rather difficult to be just a chaplain, so I transferred to full combatant roll with chaplain duties as a side line.

I hope I have not managed to offend anyone by relating this, people expect me to be a peaceful guy who would never do such things. But, I am proud of my service, and would return to do it again if ever they decided old guys were worth something. Now I have lost weight I am back at my service weight, within 1 inch of my waist size.

Theo