Serving?

I just got home from work and I felt like typing about a topic we talked about at work so here we go.

As you may know I am attending UH for college. As excited I am to begin, I always wonder what life would be like if I went with my first idea, to enlist into the military.

You see, this idea didn’t pop into my head until I started high school. I thought the military was just the army, I didn’t know the other branches existed. From there I started looking into the different branches and instantly fell in love with how the marines carried themselves. So I marked myself interested, but I never told anyone because I knew that they would’ve been negative about it.

I never got the courage to talk to a recruiter, instead I would watch YouTube videos on training, life in a day, living, and etc. I invested more time in looking up stuff for the marines instead of actual schools like UH or A&M lol.

The only real reason why I wanted to go to A&M was to not only get away but to be in the corps of cadets. I don’t know but it’s something about having a group uniformed and in line that has me interested in it. I love the way the discipline is shown off and how through hard work/ membership you go up the ranks. Although you could experience that in a regular job, I find it different when it’s the military. And with the corps of cadet I felt like that was the closest thing I could’ve come to that feeling.

A lot of things had pushed me to not go through with it. The first thing that led me to not go for it was leaving my family behind. I know I would have to do it eventually but when I brought it up to my mom just one time, I could see it in her eyes how much she didn’t want me to go. The other thing that was dragging me was that I didn’t want to start school in five years. I know it doesn’t make much sense, but I want my degree as quick as possible.

I would’ve loved to been in the marines. If I could handle serving, than I feel like I could take anything that comes my way. I would’ve loved to travel to new places. But I could do that while I’m in college. Well that’s enough of that. Thank you for taking your time to read dis (: means a lot ❤

Ciao!- Jenifer