My Life in a nut shell

[zanias]

Have you ever been deployed? Heh, well I guess I would call it a deployment. For some of us in the military a deployment can meen absolute hell. For me, it was 6 months. I spent 6 months in a country I didn't even know existed, and yet never had a chance to know or understand. I was in a bubble. The lonely fish in it's bowl swimming around looking at the world outside of itself and its cage.

I had time there. Plenty of it. I thought, evaluated, analyzed myself. My friends... my family... I was fortunate enough to call them but for what? I call home and it's the same story with my dad. Always fighting with the woman he's been with for the better part of 7 years now. The constant he's out, and yet never leaves. I call my brother only to be greated by "Oh just sitting here playing 11" as if I never left. It's always been the same with them. Numbed by what they're dealing with, with what they go through on their day to day life.

I've fallin into that same rut that my brother lives in today. I've spent my life playing video games. A life in a fantasy where I didn't have to deal with anyone. I was afraid. I shackled myself to an existance where I would never have to get close to anyone. Always hearing that we were out... always hearing that we were going to move somewhere else. I didn't want to get close to people. What would it mean to have any relationship with anyone just to move away?

It's a sick game that woman plays with my dad. A constand strain at your will, and so I chained myself to what I knew best in hope that it would make it easier living there. I hid in my room, played video games, and pretended that everything was going smoothly. I went through highschool, always trying to be proactive and friendly, but never getting too close to anyone.

I finally do something to get out of this rut. I join the Air Force. I needed an out, a way to get away from that place. All of it. Watched as all my other friends in high school were doing the same thing as everyone else does in that place. Stuck with dead end jobs, going no where, and spending 6 years in college with no clue of what they want or where they want to go.

I was proud. I was going out there, doing something different. My training made me feal confident about myself. Made me happy. I connected with the fellow trainees during that time in a way that I can't explain, only to move onto new training, with new people. Finally finding myself in Washington, with no one that I knew since joining the Air Force I started to fall into the same old pattern. The only thing that I had known to do with myself. I hid away in my room, playing my games, keeping myself locked away from everyone else.

It was second nature to me. sure I've gone out, partied a bit with everyone in the dorms here. But I never connected with anyone until I deployed.

I pulled on those chains. Pulled on them... Strained them... So hard that I thought they would snap. I've been back for 2 months now and see that those chains still hold me back. But there's the rub. The chains hold me to who I am, or who I was. A Lonely kid sitting in his room playing his games afraid to get too close for fear that it will all be gone. But there's the thing. This isn't going away. Sure, I might move, my friends here might move. But we all see each other, deployed, or passing through our stations wherever we are. It's a small world out there. I've

I've come to realize after spending 12 years hiding... In my clam shell... A hermitage of a life behind a wall of video games, computers, and friends who were never really friends, that I'm ready to come out of that shell. Break the chains holding me to a numb existance watching this screen watch me as I waste my time away. I'm ready to move on and do something with my life. Meet people and connect with them. Know that no matter what the cercumstances are that I'll still have good friends out there. But How can I do anything when I don't really even know what I want? I have no direction to take in my life, only options. So many options that I can't even begin to think of them all and it scares me. Pushes me back into that shell. It's too big, and I know I'm just going to let it all slip by if I don't make a change and take that first step.

[BackHand]

Wow Zanias long time no see, so you joined the air force!? I joined the Navy! 2 years ago in april 2007. It's been an awesome experience and I hope you break those chains! Keep moving forward because in all reality, family will be family and friends come and go. I know you've accomplished many things and I know how being on a deployment can be frustrating. Being out here in 7th fleet is the worse cause were the pretty much at sea 300 days out of the fiscal year. Well hope all goes well and thanks for visiting! It's glad to hear from an old player!

[zanias]

I feal like such an ass right now. I don't remember who you are x_x

Hi How's it going!!

Yeah, I joined the AF in August 07, right out of high school. The deployment was fun for the most part. The frustrating part was not being here to help with everything going on outside of my life there. I learned a lot while I was out there.

[Kenshiro-san]

._. Hello.
Similar stories in a way o_o
Well, I use internet/games/stories to get away from the reality that I'm a disturbed depressed kid who is afraid to be happy. xD
I don't seem it online, so, welcome to my world!

[mahawirasd]

the first step always seems the hardest, but nothing ventured nothing gained!

it's better to make mistakes and learn from them rather than not learn anything...

so by all means go and think about life. Think what it is you want out of life. Think what do you want to do that once you've done it you can say to yourself: "i'm happy, i've lived a full life"

most of the time it's better to regret something you did than something you didn't do.

So take that first step, journey into a new world with all the possibilities open to you. Just remember that with great power (the power to choose) comes great responsibility

and remember, in life (as in games) GL and HF!


-w-

[Kenshiro-san]

<3 I know what you mean -is doing a massive reboot of herself this year- xD