by whyamihere 85 Replies latest jw friends
Garry bus
I enjoyed your post in which you share yourself and your experience. It is a cruel way to spend a youth. It seems you had to leave the Jehovahs Witnesses to claim your right to grow up. Deciding what you wanted to do next was another challenge.
Love the hat - I thought you were the Lone Ranger!
Mapleleaf18, is that "precast" as in concrete?
jt stumbler,
what a coincidence. my boyfriend works for old castle precast in manchester NY. he does finishing, dry and wetcast
Well, I didn't want to be anything. I just wanted to make sure I made it into the new system in '75. I remember telling myself over and over as a child and teenager living the miserable jw life, "this had better be worth it, this had better be worth it!" Well here we all are, it was NOT worth it!. By '75 I was married with children and a damm hairdresser! dreaming of what I could have been. A research oceanographic scientist.
when i was a kid i wanted to be an engineer.....now i am one
What kind of engineering do you do?
When I was very young (pre-kindergarten?) I wanted to be a "wild Indian", in my mind that meant being a warrier and medicine man but I didn't want to be chief. I just liked being outside in the woods and exploring places and things.
In Kindergarten I discovered dinosaurs and other long gone things, so I wanted to go to the desert and find fossils. (Paleontologist?) Bones were OK, but I was interested in the fossil plants and bugs.
By the seventh grade, I was aware of chemistry and mixing compunds for reactions, and so the chemistry of explosions and acid/base reaction interested me.
Sophomore year of HS, I blew up my face with acid, so my interest in that branch of chemistry ended. I was very interested then in the pharmacological chemistry of plants; medicines, poisons and materials for use.
I also at this time thought about going into forrestry or geology, but couldn't reconcile this want with the JW "no school rule".
Now I'm in massage school, interested in healing myself and then reciprocating that to others. I've stumbled onto the philosophy of Taoism, and like the fit.
Growing up, I thought I was an odd little person--I atill am--but now, I like me.
I re read my post above and it does come across kind of down. I wrote it in a factious way but it didn't really come across that way.
At times my Witness childhood is like remembering a wreck and in many ways it was a wreck. It wasn't all bad but it's like the auto trip that ended in a crash, we don't remember the beginning of the trip as well as we remember the crash. As time passes all we remember is the wreck. It's too bad, but that's the way it is.
Yesterday was a perfect summer day and my 22 month old grandson came to the chair I was sitting in outside and gave me a rock and gave me a kiss on the lips. That's the best moment in my life up to this point.
Now I just wanna be the best grandpa in the world.
I gotta wear a hat in the sun and my picture without the hat is on freeminds and on my real estate web page at garybuss dot com.
I actually turned out more personality wise like John Wane, than the Lone Ranger. Now I'm more like John Wayne that got run over by a logging truck:-)
I wanted to be a high school teacher. But you weren't allowed to go to Uni were you....
awesome posts everyone.
gary, really enjoyed reading your rundown. i like the way you write. what was the years text for 1974?
i feel that there are a lot of super bright people on this board, as there are probably a bunch of poor, super bright people still in the org. it seems to me like the org really stopped a lot of us from realizing our potential, or as gary said "daring to dream".
I was a full-time pioneer for about 3 years - looking back it was precious time wasted Boy am I making up for it now
