As you may or may not know depending on how well you follow me. I am currently deployed. I have been since April of this year. When I got over on this side of the world I had a lot on my plate. I was deploying for my final time in my military career, I had a girl that I wished was mine but was never truly mine and just kept giving me the slip, to top it all off I had no idea what I was going to do when my time came to end with the Army. I have been doing this since I was 17. Now, so close to my exit of the military, the outside world just looks a little daunting.
To help keep my mind off things I had one thing here on this deployment. My best friend R.S. He and I have been through middle school and high school together. So to find us in the same unit and let alone the same deployment has been a great experience. He and I were never really close in our high school days but I can say with out a single doubt in my mind I would take a bullet for him and know that he will do what ever it takes to be there for my loved ones in the case of my death. He is my brother in arms. Yet, I still felt like I needed more.
With that I signed up for this program I found online. It looked pretty legit. It offered service members who were deployed a pen pal to write back home to either through slow mail or or e-mail. Shortly, after I signed up I received a number of different e-mails introducing themselves to me as their my new pen pal. Now, I only talk to two of them still. But one of them has changed my entire life.
I'll never forget June 1st 2013. That is the day that E.A.C walked into my life. Well, technically she e-mailed into my life. Regardless, I'll never forget the e-mail she sent me. She told me how weird it was to say she was "adopting" me as her pen pal since she and I are the same age. She hoped to hear from me soon, and I immediately e-mailed her back. That conversation carried on and moved forward into what we are today. We talked about all the small things in life, favorite colors, favorite animals things like that. We started text messaging and calling each other. Then we started video chatting via Skype. It is great how technology works these days.
Little did I know that fateful day that I decided to e-mail this woman I would be e-mailing the woman of my dreams. It is like a story out of the movies. Rather lame movies that have terrible actors in them usually on the hallmark channel or something but none the less one of those types of stories.
She is an amazing woman. She is thoughtful and caring. She is always thinking of ways to make me smile, but not just me everyone that is blessed to have her in their lives. She has had it rough with a lot of let downs, even within her own family, but she still manages to care about everyone she ever crosses paths with. When she loves something she loves it with her whole heart and is forgiving.
She has a strong work ethic. Always working to better herself and the world around her. She is in school right now even though she already has a great career. Working through college as a nurse at a local hospital she is determined to become a doctor. Not just a doctor but a cardiologist. She has a lot of school left ahead of her but is still working steadily as a nurse and she volunteers free time to coach the younger generation of youth soccer athletes. The little time she has outside of these events she dedicates to her friends, family and me. She writes other military members down range who need someone to talk to. She hardly finds enough time to rest and sleep with all the tasks she has set but still drives on.
With all that she has done and continues to do, she is my inspiration. This beautiful woman came into my life for a reason and I am sure of it. She inspires me to be a better man than what I am, she inspires me to conquer all of life's little and large challenges. With out a reason of doubt in my mind I love this woman more and more every day. Her Virgo soul grounds the Aries in me. Though, I haven't been the perfect man in her life, I know that one day I will be. She keeps working at me like a boxer works on his opponent. Pounding and pounding away until I become the man she deserves in her life. I will continue to work just as hard to do the same. She's the reason I have no fears anymore and will just jump head first into what ever follows. Frank Sinatra was right... "For once unafraid I can go where life leads me, and somehow I know I'll be strong. For once in my life I have someone who needs me. Someone I needed for so long."
Now I know that she will just say that this is all just an exaggeration but in my heart and soul I now know that for once I can tear down all my walls and truly love again. All because of that fateful day of June 1st 2013. I will be proud the day she agrees to become E.A.G, together forever and always.
A.G
