Millis OTR journal

It's funny how things don't always turn out how you expect. There was one guy that lived in the same neighborhood as me. Growing up, his mom and siblings all lived in this rundown HUD trailer. The mother's boyfriend was a drug dealer and general miscreant who met his death one Sunday morning when somebody played sniper and shot him in the forehead. None of them ever bathed or had clean clothes. Yet he went on to get a Master's Degree in Mine Engineering and has done really well for himself.

On the other side of the coin, one of the "good Christian girls" that once called me a "devil worshipper" for wearing a Slayer t-shirt to middle school has battled drug addiction and repeated encounters with law enforcement for most of her adult life.

My kindergarten teacher's daughter who was also my first school crush became a doctor and is now my aunt's gynecologist.

 

I don't know dude. He looks righteous though. Lolz,,,,

 

It's funny, strange, queer how life turns out. Always thought I'd be a farmer like Daddy cultivatating 2000 acres In Middle GA. with a wife and a few kids. Yet here I am pounding the tarmac. Gots me a new girlfriend though.

 

I don't know what would have happened to me if I'd stayed in my hometown. I'm not really sure if I would have become a drug addict like the majority of my generation that stays around there has done, but there certainly isn't a lot of opportunity there unless you want to be a coal miner or the spouse of one. Dad was a miner and he always told me to find something else to do, so I didn't have much interest in that.

I'm still in a bit of disbelief that I once again have a CDL and I'm driving again. I did this very briefly back in the 90s, then things happened and I moved out of state and got into a career where I thought that I would never need my CDL again so I let it lapse. Yet here I am.

 

I have a strong dislike for the forum software they use on this site.