It’s my last night in OCS tonight. One last rehersal tommorow with Cmdr OCS, book out and then it’s Parade on saturday baby. *happy dance*.
I think I’ve changed quite a bit in the last year. Intrinsically. Like the way I feel about and react to things, people, myself. For starters I write short, concise sentences now, not the long winded, superfluous, adjective filled circumlocutions that used to plague my earlier posts, blogs and history essays, making you wonder what the hell he’s trying to say and why couldn’t he have said it in half the amount of words he did because that will save oh so many trees in the Amazon.
Or at least I try.
I think I’ve earned the commission on Saturday. Don’t wanna regal you with a glorious recount of the past 9 mths but I think it’s fair to say that I tried to the best of my ability to lead, to excel and to overcome (2nd best motto alive, the best is still always yet to be) and it will feel really, really really good to have my mom and dad put the 2LT rank insignia on my two shoulders on that day. I’ve grown closer to my parents too, my dad coz he’s the only one in the family that can go “I’ve been there son, and I know you’ll make it through” and my mom because she’s the only one at home with such an extensive knowledge of cures for abrasions, heat rash, foot rot and abject homesickness.
I’ve learnt a fair bit this 9mths. I’ve learnt that people whom you thought were friends actually are strangers and vice versa, accquaintances can become friends, brothers will always be brothers and girls will always be girls. The rest of the things that I’ve picked up in OCS are more fitting for a self-improvement seminar entitled “wake up your bloody idea cadet is that clear so far?” than a blog so we’ll leave it at that. Ask me though, and I’ll tell you.
So I can’t wait for the future. Post commission, Post ORD, post everything man. Started reading regularly again, am alternating between Good Omens, What You Don’t Know Can Keep You Out of College and ACS School Magazine circa 1996 – 2007. Gonna charge up the knoll of higher education in the US soon enough anyhow. It’s not like I haven’t done that kinda thing before.
And with so much to look forward to, my spine tingles. I think I’m done for tonight. One more day baby, one more day…
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 3:52 am
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