Will at least your honest about it. Women your age tell me to just wait until menopause sets in kid
and you will know what getting older is. I guess that's a woman thing and its seldom mentioned
around here . But I saw my mother go through it and it was hardly the end of the world for her.
I'm sure my dad knew about it
. But they don't make men and women like that anymore and
your generation handles things a lot differently than they do now.
You guys would tuff things out without the kids ever knowing anything was wrong. The forgotten war
generation I guess, who as toddlers saw what WW2 was really all about. Doing without and then
later dealing with the Cold War themselves. Mom used to say it was like the only set of clothes my
Dad had was his uniforms the kids got everything else. Im the youngest so by the time i came
around things were getting a lot better. My Dad was a lot like you say you are. He had no intention
of getting corralled especially by a foreigner. Born and raised in the WV back woods he took the first
opportunity that came his way when the Army approached him at 17.
So he was pretty wild back then until he ran across an expat woman from Egypt who could speak
better English than he could. Mom was working as an interpreter for an American contractor in
Naples Italy who was doing some work for the US Army. She was a tough nut to crack according to
Dad and told him to get lost many times . But Dad says she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life, but she made him feel like a hillbilly with the education she had. But he was
persistent and was willing to forego his youthful years to win her hand. Which he eventually did but only after a run in with an Army Officer who was there before him. It nearly landed him in the
stockade !
But I guess the moral of this story is our youth was never waisted its just the way it was. For the
most part youth lives for the moment until responsibility catches up with it. For whatever that
responsibility may be or the events that we encountered. That is what eventually will be what
will define our lives and what we become. For some it will happen faster than it does for others, but
the end result of that is always the same for good or bad. Or for better and for worse as the case
may be. But it's all within Gods plan for what he wants from us and we can't change that.
No matter how old you get that never means he is finished with you. It may just be a different
chapter in our lives unfolding in how he wants things to be .
