Down to 19 days I believe? Counting till the 8th since I'm leaving the day before bootcamp for MEPS which is gay. All the same shit I went through last time I went to fort dicks, which really includes tons of standing around and doing nothing for 95% of the time. I think they tried getting everyone who was leaving for bootcamp out around 12 or 1pm, we leave for the base at 5am. monday morning from a hotel in NJ. Shouldn't be too bad....the hotel has alright food.
I think I need to take my own advice on some things. The other day I had a friend who was getting really pissed off about a supposed "cock-block" by another friends brother. Now, under circumstances where I see a friend trying to get with a chick I make sure to stay away and not interrupt, so I can see the frustration if he wants to get something going and someone else comes in and gets in the way of "action". The thing I didn't get was that this girl that he was going for was not at all the type of person he should get upset about. Like, she showed up to the party drunk and on pills. Not to mention her complete unattractiveness/obnoxiousness/ghettoness. We were all drinking a little that night so I can't get too much on her for that, but her personality in general was not what would usually attract my friend.
I'm taking him home later in the night and we were talking about this, he was still pissed. I managed to calm him down by just affirming what I know he already believes, that at the end of the day.... he would have regretted doing anything with this person. We are both pretty similar in ways we approach relationships so it was easy to talk him down and relate. We're both guys who get put in the "friend zone" all the time so I see his frustration and wanting to hop at something putting out. Even so, the advice I gave is advice I got from a friend of mine, and they said "not to settle". It's very easy to hold up standards and morals if they are never challenged. I could say I want this and that in a girl, or that certain traits are completely unnattractive to me yet go for that type of person out of convenience. It gets to the point that any attention seems like good attention but it should really never be that way. I'm not sure I can even keep the standards I set for myself. If I say "this is the type of person I'm looking for" the people I find don't match. It's so hard over time I come to think "we'll.....there arent a lot of people like that so I'll just drop the bar a bit.....then a bit more...". By the end I won't end up with the type of person I intend to. My friend just lost hope in what he wanted and I'm well on my way to joining him. My problem is just finding different outlets to meet people. Idk, I'll get to that.....
I've had a pretty strong urge lately to do aid work in different countries. Like I think it would be awesome to do work in the Peace Corps or working with missionaries through a church. I'd want to be part of groups that build schools or dig wells in villiages. Things like that, go into an area and try to improve it. This could include local work too but I think of it as most of the poorest people in our country still have it better off than many people in other countries. My biggest drive is probably to gain awareness. I don't think tv specials and news articles really do that sort of thing justice. Millions of people have completely shitty lives and I'm not sure what better thing I could do with my life than try to make a few better. I'd like to look into all this as I go through the military cause that would be another interesting experience.

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