Several weeks ago I made a pretty big decision. Despite the fact that I was already accepted to 3 different colleges, I decided to choose a path that I would never have expected myself to choose.

Everything happened so quickly that my decision to enlist in the Army is finally beginning to sink in. I could have chosen to go to college and have fun this upcoming year with all the freedom in the world but I knew that I wouldn’t be able to handle it. I would probably end up doing what I’ve been looking forward to be doing for so long and I knew deep inside that it wasn’t the right way. I knew I’d be a party animal and that I would drink and smoke my way through college and that by the time graduation would come, I’d probably be a degree-less bum who just wasted a shitload of money on college just to have fun.

It’s been really annoying hearing people trying to talk me out of it by saying bullshit things like “Dudee, you’re gonna go to Iraq” and “Seriously? You’re insane.”. But honestly though, so what if I do end up getting deployed? Big deal. I hate how some ignorant people think people who enlist in the army are those who failed at life and have no choice. That is true for some, but definitely not all.

Highschool is killing me and I need graduation to come ASAP. I don’t talk to half the people I used to talk to last year and I lost a lot of friends. It’s whatever though since I won’t be seeing 95% of my high school friends ever again as we all go our separate ways.

I’ve been running a lot lately to recover my lungs from all that smoking I did and it’s working out pretty well. I can finally run 30 minutes straight on the treadmill haha.

Now, who should I ask to prom?