I AM A POGUE

[kamudas]

i found a friend on myspace. i was supposed to join the united states marine corps with this friend. we were in chemistry class. we were bored of hearing about stoichiometry . we were thinking. he looked at me and said "do you want to join the marines?" i said "sure. shit yeah"... we went to the recruiter's office after school. we stood outside the

Comments

[anonymous]

You can't ever put you and yourself first, for one. You're too afraid to admit what you really want and potentially disrupt the rhythm and fuck up the status quo of your life. And you're afraid of failing. Everyone is afraid of failing, but you're going to fail and keep failing if you never try to do anything in the first place. You'll be safe, in all senses of the word, but lame as hell. And you'll keep kicking your own ass over it, making yourself perpetually unhappy, and hating everything you do that isn't the thing you want to do or think you want to do. If you don't take control of the goddamn situation and get some balls and ACT on what you want, you're going to wake up one day and realize that your life is not what you thought it would be, what you wanted it to be, what you need it to be. And that's applicable to so, so many things

[eugaira]

join the military, already. if you really want to do it, it is not too late. christ, you're only 22. i'm just finishing college and i'm 28! my point? life is not always a direct path. sometimes it takes you longer to get to where you're going than it does others, but that doesn't mean you can't still get there