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Moved around a lot after my parents divorced when I was 4. Lived in central Illinois for a few years.
At 18, I was a redneck who's only travel in the Midwest. Was about to take my first plane trip and to out of the US too! My world was my family - literally.
I think I've become even more redneck lately. My usage of "y'all" has increased dramatically in the last two years.
Sortelli wrote:Fell in love with a woman twenty years older than me over the internet and it all worked out. That was weird
Due to my advanced age (*barf*) I've had lots of curve balls. I am a military brat married to a military brat, so moving around from place to place is growing up prepared me well for the same in the real world.
My good curve balls include marrying my first love and starting a family with him. I think that works out much more than people think! Our 19th anniversary is this December. I've been married longer than some of you young whippersnappers have been allive!
I didn't think I'd end up a Stay-at-home Mom, that's for sure. I went to college to study Marine Biolog, but ended up being a legal secretary, as that paid the bills better at the time.
As for me, while I'm still young at 19, I've had a curveball or two. My life would've turned out differently had I not started down certain paths:
1. In Middle school, I was a pretty angry and pissed off kid, oversensitive and easy to bully. This was a year after Columbine, so in seventh grade a rumor went around that I had made a bomb threat. It wasn't true, of course, but concerned parents were calling into school and I had made the problem worse by making sarcastic comments to people who asked me about it. The school decided to suspend me for three days (bear in mind, I hadn't DONE anything and I was a good student) out of school for things to calm down and even have me talk to a psychologist briefly. Needless to say my parents were pissed and entirely on my side, almost ready to pull me out and put me in private school. Now, the reason this is really a curveball was that during this time I decided to watch Sailor Moon and got hooked, thus putting me on the path to anime, fanfiction, and my eventual novels. ^_~
2. In ninth grade I was still bitter about the stuff that happened in middle school (still kinda bitter about it. ^_~) and I realized my life wasn't happy. I was unhappy with school, with my relationships with people, and my general outlook. As such, I decided to MAKE myself happy. I became an Optimist and I haven't looked back since. ^^
Quote of the Moment: “Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.” ~Criswell~
One thing about being older is the recognition of the TRUTH of this statement. Whatever curves are thrown your way (or whatever Dutch called them!), what they do to you is what YOU make of it. I recall when I learned the "fake it 'til you make it" rule...If you aren't happy, ACT as if you are. (not that you should fake how you feel, but only what you feel like doing about it) Pretty soon, the state of mind you are striving for will come to be because you have made a place for it in your life.
Personally, I don't really think of events in my life as being "curve balls". I let things come as they may, and deal with them as appropriate. I can't really say that anything extremely unexpected has happened to me, since I don't base my life around any particular expectations.
Toxic wrote:My usage of "y'all" has increased dramatically in the last two years.
Keep up the good work!
Existence is a series of catastrophes through which everything barely but continually survives.
