Thanks to many as I was growing up I have learned patience and decision making in such a way as to avoid the biggest troubles in life mostly. I was taught as a child to watch what I was doing and what others were doing observe first, make sure it is safe, then if it will advance me, do it too. The copy, but watch what you copy method so to say.
I also learned over the years to reach back in my life and use experience to make decisions in the present that would affect the future. Both of these methods combined have gotten me to 61 years old, decisions must be made in a proper way or you will make the wrong one that is for sure. Never rush an important decision, for if you rush it, it can destroy any chance at it working for you or anyone around you. Personal decisions on your health, you need to make in such a way as to benefit yourself of course, and never give up on anything, keep at it folks, you can do it.
I learned as a boy, what my stepfather taught all of us and said a million times in his short life, You Can do whatever you put your mind to, just make up your mind and do it and you will accomplish it. He was right and it carried me through my life and helped me maintain in The U.S. Army, then, the U.S. Army National Guard and finally in The U.S. Navy. Yes I served in all three branches and I was discharged on at least 4 Honorable Discharges, the last one under medical conditions from the Navy in 1989. Yet I didn’t let that stop me from accomplishing many things in my life. I have two daughters who are beautiful redheads from my first marriage, which ended badly, but, I also have 4 grandchildren through them and two step-grandchildren also I love from my second marriage. I persisted in my first marriage and it lasted 12 years and my second marriage has just past 17 years and counting and the relationship has passed 25 years now with the same woman. SI I learned from the first one of those too. Never surrender, unless, you can’t win and you know it for sure.
I was a High School drop out folks, I dropped out in my Junior year, and left, went into the Army at the time on a High School Equivalency . yes I earned it one year after I left High School and used it to enter the Army. I then went on to the U.S. Army National Guard and Navy as I stated earlier,, when I was medically discharged from the Navy in 1989, my first marriage was ending and I was broke and out of it. I fell into a kind of depression I fought through and found my second wife at a SIngle’s Dance I attended. With her I recovered living in her home and loving her as I do today. The journey took me to The Veteran’s Administration and back to school, Yes I got into College folks, and Graduated Magna Cum Laude , Phi Theta Beta and with a 3.7 Grade point Average at 40 years old. I recieved Awards for my studies, in Hotel Management from the School and State. I moved on to manage Hotels until I couldn’t due to my back injuries. I persisted as my stepfather said I should have. Today I am 61 years old, living on Veteran’s Disability and Social Security Disability and taking care of my second wife, who has been a breast cancer now turned to bone cancer victim since 2006. I have survived Lung Cancer also myself, in 2013, I had a lobe and one third of my right lung removed. It saved my life, I know and have faced not only my own mortality folks but my wife’s also.
I pursued writing next for a way to get out all I had to say about my life and for therapeutic reasons, I have written many over 70 Short books, they don’t sell much but they are there and I consider them accomplishments, especially the few that did sell some. So Persist folks, fight, believe and live life to your fullest, find who you are even if it takes you a while, for in the end it is what life is really all about. Persistence, and honor and honesty will get you through it all, as long as you remember what my Stepfather told all five of us he raised, You Can Do Anything you Put Your Mind To, if you just Stick To It and Want it Enough!
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