8 years? No way.

I remember my first shoplift of a cd. The sympathetic stares of the onlookers, cold feel of metal around my wrists, the warm hands moving up my leg.....................

emptytomb1 wrote:

I remember my first shoplift of a cd. The sympathetic stares of the onlookers, cold feel of metal around my wrists, the warm hands moving up my leg.....................

The way you closed your eyes and arched your back, followed by the ringing in your ears as the cop clocked you upside the head when you asked him if he was a member of the Village People............

Seeing as my 10 year High School reunion is comming up, yes I do feel time slipping away. When I look in the mirror I see what everyone else sees, a man in his early 20s but it hits me that I am almost out of my 20s. 10 Years since graduating, 8 years since the birth of my niece, 5 years since getting out of the navy, 2 years since losing my best friend; it all becomes overwhelming. Add to it the fact that I still have no idea where my life is heading, the years are going by WAY too fast.

Most people that will be at the reunion will all ready have families and careers while I will have no close friends, no companion except my cat, and two retail jobs and no social life. It begins to overwhelm me to the point of depression, the only solice I have is my relationship with my Lord. If it wasn't for God's promise no never leave nor forsake me I would have no reason to get up in the morning. I sometimes feel that if I was younger things would be better. I don't mind getting older but just not yet, let me have more time to get my affairs in order, you know?

Oh well, forgive my rambling. Because no matter how frustrating my life seems right now, there are people worse off than me. I should be thankful for what I have and not worry about what I don't have.

DallasBlack wrote:

Seeing as my 10 year High School reunion is comming up, yes I do feel time slipping away. When I look in the mirror I see what everyone else sees, a man in his early 20s but it hits me that I am almost out of my 20s. 10 Years since graduating, 8 years since the birth of my niece, 5 years since getting out of the navy, 2 years since losing my best friend; it all becomes overwhelming. Add to it the fact that I still have no idea where my life is heading, the years are going by WAY too fast.

Most people that will be at the reunion will all ready have families and careers while I will have no close friends, no companion except my cat, and two retail jobs and no social life. It begins to overwhelm me to the point of depression, the only solice I have is my relationship with my Lord. If it wasn't for God's promise no never leave nor forsake me I would have no reason to get up in the morning. I sometimes feel that if I was younger things would be better. I don't mind getting older but just not yet, let me have more time to get my affairs in order, you know?

Oh well, forgive my rambling. Because no matter how frustrating my life seems right now, there are people worse off than me. I should be thankful for what I have and not worry about what I don't have.

Take it from a guy who just finished having his 20 year reunion last year, it's never too late. Do something NOW, don't wait, or ten more years will go by in a flash....

Tall Tyrion wrote:

Take it from a guy who just finished having his 20 year reunion last year, it's never too late. Do something NOW, don't wait, or ten more years will go by in a flash....

Oh, don't need to worry about that. Once my debt is payed off at the end of the year if I haven't decided on a career I will just go the route my dad did after getting out of the insurance claims business and become a truck driver. Also I have a feeling God isn't going to leave me a loner for long-I have no solid evidence for believing that, it's just a gut feeling I have had for awile now. "Call it what you will, a hunch, women's intuition..."-Lieutenant Frank Drebin