Journey We Call Life

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Journey we call Life You would have never convinced me eight years ago I would be trying to complete my bachelor’s degree right now. I had planned on riding my twenty years out in the military and to start my own farming operations when I retired. Little did I know that education plays a huge role in military progression? I had intentions on completing my degree but it was going to be at the ladder part of my military career. So now I’m writing about the “Journey we call Life” to sum up my life and some of my future goals. I can remember my early child life when I was growing up. My mother and dad divorced when I was a baby and don’t remember any of that. I can remember staying with my grandparents when my mother would work late. She worked very longs days to provide whatever we need for us. I had a close relationship with my dad’s parents I called them “mamaw and papaw” it was similar to the ones that Levinson talks about in our text.( text input) My dad wasn’t really around much until I got in middle school. My mamaw and papaw worked a lot and my other grandparents where retired and live right next door. My mamaw and papaw would come get me whenever they got off work and I would stay with them until they had to go back to work. They worked three days one week then four days the next. I did a lot of things with them before I started school. We would go on vacation to Florida or where my aunt’s husband would be stations. My uncle was in the Navy so I got to see firsthand all the military ships and planes at a very young age. I can remember saying that’s what I want to do when I grow up. As I got older I started realizing that I could be that person to work on planes and be like all the military people that I had seen in the past. In middle school I would have pictures of airplanes in my room and I always wanted the cool back packs that had planes on
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