The Road to Success

Everyone, for the most part, goes to college to be all they can be. Having dreams and aspiration to receive a degree is what you go to college for. Being all you can be, however, may be achieved through another means of discipline and self management. The marines, similar to the college life, also requires a self discipline where you need to grow up and get tough. Not always just mentally, but physically as well, for the marines at least. Going on my second year of college, and moving into the big city life, I quickly adjusted myself and realized, I had to get tough, or go home. Being amongst hundreds of people everyday, can get rather irritating. You can feel a sense of privacy through the unfriendly sort of personal space everyone gives off towards one another in public areas, and so in the class room, or the training filed. So you learn to sort of keep to yourself in a new surrounding. You need to understand your training yourself to become a weapon in the marines, and weapons aren't necessarily "nice". You need to adjust yourself in order to be "all you can be", and make it easier as to follow the proper attitude of conduct. Your teachers, just like drill instructors, can be illiberal, and sometimes try and get a scare out of you, sometimes taking it too far, but proper adjustment and direction will get you over the edge towards making it to the next level. In the end you should feel a sense of gratitude, and realize that you've become a better person for it.