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Originally Posted by Chad
As of lately, my girlfriend/fiance left me about a month before we were supposed to get married, which completely flipped my life upside down. My grades dropped in school, and my work performance didn't exactly hold up to par. But I did get a raise last week which was nice.
But that's not why I'm writing now, I still seem to be in a rut. Here I am, about to turn 20 on the 29th this month, and I feel my life is going nowhere.
I don't have the same output on life like i did before. Before the break up I could play SH3, work on my little indie game, and watch Das Boot 20x a month. Now I can barely even get on the computer without feeling like a low-down, piece of **** sloth that has no life.
When I'm not at school or work, I'm home alone, and that's probably the worst thing for me. The quiet just makes me feel lonely and depressed. I have friends yes, but due to their schedules usually conflicting with mine it usually takes some planning and time to get together, and it's not altogether that often.
Basically I've decided to make some changes in my life, and this afternoon I called a Navy Recruiter to come out and sit down with me and my family and talk about joining. This is where I'd like your guys opinions, what do you think about a college student with a part-time job at Wal-Mart in Electronics still living at home with his parents joining the navy?
I'm not altogether out of shape, I used to play football in high school but lost a lot of my muscle mass and weight, and couldn't run a mile under 10 minutes anymore. But I'm still "in shape" if you get what I'm saying. I could start running again, and get back in shape before boot camp, or whatever the navy has. So the physical part wouldn't be that difficult. Also I'm good at making friends, so in training I could make and meet friends, and since we'd be together almost all the time I wouldn't feel lonely.
I'm a good fast learner, and have always loved the military, from the civil war onwards, and I think that this would be a good direction to head my life into. The more i think about it the more excited I get, but I know a lot of you were in the navy before, and want to know what you think.
Thanks for your help,
Chad
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