05-27-2011, 10:21 PM
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I've been a member for a while now, but only recently have had the time to actually start posting. I feel as though I've found a special place in these forums, and would like to contribute to them. I look forward to getting to know all of you 
I grew up in Lancaster, PA, and had a relatively loving and stable upbringing. What I've read in so many stories here reflects my own past, in that I always felt like there was "something" unseen or hidden from plain sight, and that I was the only one who realized it! While I got along with my family and friends well enough, I would often find myself alone, gazing at the stars, talking to my cat, or becoming completely immersed in whatever I was imagining at the time. I had an older half sister who was my first teacher in many ways. She taught me to have love for others, even if they don't do the same for you. After years of failing to live by that, I'm finally realizing that same truth that as a child was second nature! Anyways, I lost her to cancer when I was eight, and that had a really profound impact on me. I began to detach and withdraw, convinced that human realtionships were doomed to fail or be destroyed. While emotionally distant, I was intellectually active. Around the time that middle school started I "got the itch". I would read everything I could get my hands on about lost civilizations, metaphysics, E.T.'s, etc. Ancient Egypt and Atlantis especially resonated with me. Through high school I was a good student, but would often smoke pot and experiment with psychadelics. You learn many things from those other teachers that you don't from those in the classroom
. By the time I was eighteen I really felt that I needed to get out of my comfort zone, so after I graduated I joined the Marine Corps. I always had an attraction to the "noble savage" archetype, and that warrior mentality was something I felt I could benefit from if I could keep it in perspective. It is now four years later that I stand before you.
I posted this a few days ago, but unfortunatly it was lost. There were a few comments from people that I never got a chance to respond to, so feel free to re-post them.
P.S. for all other wanderers out who happen to be grunts, I'm 2/1 Wpns. Maybe we have some overlap.
I grew up in Lancaster, PA, and had a relatively loving and stable upbringing. What I've read in so many stories here reflects my own past, in that I always felt like there was "something" unseen or hidden from plain sight, and that I was the only one who realized it! While I got along with my family and friends well enough, I would often find myself alone, gazing at the stars, talking to my cat, or becoming completely immersed in whatever I was imagining at the time. I had an older half sister who was my first teacher in many ways. She taught me to have love for others, even if they don't do the same for you. After years of failing to live by that, I'm finally realizing that same truth that as a child was second nature! Anyways, I lost her to cancer when I was eight, and that had a really profound impact on me. I began to detach and withdraw, convinced that human realtionships were doomed to fail or be destroyed. While emotionally distant, I was intellectually active. Around the time that middle school started I "got the itch". I would read everything I could get my hands on about lost civilizations, metaphysics, E.T.'s, etc. Ancient Egypt and Atlantis especially resonated with me. Through high school I was a good student, but would often smoke pot and experiment with psychadelics. You learn many things from those other teachers that you don't from those in the classroom
. By the time I was eighteen I really felt that I needed to get out of my comfort zone, so after I graduated I joined the Marine Corps. I always had an attraction to the "noble savage" archetype, and that warrior mentality was something I felt I could benefit from if I could keep it in perspective. It is now four years later that I stand before you.I posted this a few days ago, but unfortunatly it was lost. There were a few comments from people that I never got a chance to respond to, so feel free to re-post them.
P.S. for all other wanderers out who happen to be grunts, I'm 2/1 Wpns. Maybe we have some overlap.
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