As a 21 year old man what do most people have to deal with?  Some deal with a car payment and insurance, or a cell phone bill.  Some are in college and some have a job.  While still others do nothing at all, quenching their thirst on the teet of american society.  Regardless of what you do, ethnicity, race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, or any of that, just realize that what you do now with roll forward and affect you at a later time.  At the age of 21 I have dealt with more than some will in the entire lifetime, seen more than some people will ever want to see, and yet I get up everyday with the full knowledge that today I could possibly see someone die in my hands.  But I don't despair because I know what has been bestowed upon me, I have the strength and the ambition to conquer any situation no matter what the cause.  I can create the anvil that stops an issue dead in its tracks, or I can be the electricity that helps move the car down the tracks.  All in all I guess I'm saying, is know what the outcome will be before you make a decision.  Yes life will throw you a few curveballs in the beginning, but out-think your outcome.  It's the only way to truly know yourself and understand your meaning.  I know that the ripples from my past are now rocking the very boat that I paddle in, don't make my mistake.......

v/r...... bb

Josh