Our Childhood

[GoldenRivet]

i underperformend scholastically as a child, though, moving into high school and into my college / tech school years i came into my own within the education system. largely because as a kid, i was simply not interested in disecting sentence structure, doing long division or writing history papers.

behaviorally, per my mother, i was an ideal child, who never really gave my parents much in the way of trouble. When i was asked to do something i could generally be counted on to do it. I was affectionate toward my mother, and respectful of my father.

I kept few close friends, a very small circle of perhaps 2 close friends and still today i can be this way. I had a quiet uncertainty about myself, and suffered from a lack of confidence and self esteem, but as i became a young man in my early teens i grew out of this, and especially as i learned to fly airplanes at the age of 18 and 19 my manner of dress changed, and i adopted a sort of swagger typical of my fellow aviation peers and instructors and finally felt part of something that was bigger than myself which shaped me tremendously into adulthood