I am 35 years old. I went to school in Marshfield while living in Elkland. I dropped out of SMSU and OTC to work and party. Not too smart. I was lucky enough in 2002 to have a son born. The odd part of that was my 20 year old wife had just died. She died at St Johns after a car wreck. She had been gone less than 6 months and I was in a new relationship with a baby on the way. After Elias was born my boss helped me buy and sell a house. I fixed the house up and was able to make over $20,000. With that money I started my own construction company. I specialized in seamless gutter. Everything was good until the economy went bad and my relationship fell apart after 7 years. I had too much time on my hands and started hanging out on the west side of Springfield way too much. All that led to me moving back home and rarely seeing my son. I drove my mother insane and disappointed mostly everyone. My life was up and way down for too long. Luck struck again. I met a beautiful 19 year old woman who was pissing her life away also. She couldn't believe the oportunities I was wasting. I felt the same about her. She had a perfect 2 year old son named Matthew. We three bonded as a family quickly. Slowly Corina and I straightened our selves out. Both our boys are around a lot. They are brothers now. Corina works 2 jobs and goes to OTC. I work and almost 20 years later I am back. We're buying and remodeling a house together. When we're not camping. floating, doing kid stuff, or working we're driving each other crazy about some stupid shit. Anyway hopefully school will help me with a decent career, be a good dad, and keep me from being too out dated.
That is some intense stuff man..
ReplyDeletesorry to hear about all that. in my short time on this earth ive learned that good things follow good actions so i think youre headed the right direction.
ReplyDeleteLife's hard sometimes man, glad to hear you're on the up and up at the moment. School seems like an exceptional choice on improving you life even farther. Keep it up, I like where your head's at. :D
ReplyDeletePerseverance is one of the hardest attributes of the human condition to conquer, you seem to be well on your way to mastering that art. Keep up the good work and you will reap the rewards of your labor.
ReplyDeleteOmigoodness. Renovating a house??? That's so nifty! I am so jealous right now. I would love to put life back into a home like that.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you have had experiences that you have learned from and are able to pick yourself up and carry on after all you have been through.
ReplyDeleteSounds rough but sometimes you have to lose it to get something better
ReplyDeleteWell at least we have all caught you on your up time. I wish you luck on improving your life, i think college is a good way to do it. I hope you are able to stick with it if not for anything else than your son.
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