Quote Originally Posted by withonor View Post
I can tell were not going to agree on this, now or probably 50 years from now (Not literally, figuratively), so I'll refrain from doing battle in someone elses thread.

I'd like to say two things not because I care for a response, but hopefully you can think about them with an open mind.

One, you made a lot of assumptions about me.

Two, "old people" speak, not with experience, but based on their experiences that are unique to them and created at times with unique circumstances. If you spend your time with people who all live life exactly like you do, you can say with experience, but a millionaire, a middle-class family and a lesbian couple all have different experiences with the same life events. Getting married, having kids and buying a house would be interpreted VERY differently by each of those groups. An "adult" with "life experience" in the U.S. can go live in Afghanistan and find that probably a lot of their "experience" doesn't do them any good.

The world is a big place and there is no "right" way to live in it.
So have I made assumptions. And it's that your theme is "You don't realize how tough it is" and you seem ever ready to make excuses for disorder and mayhem.You defended rape during combat in another thread as an act that we should have sympathy for. Now you are telling a guy who counsels someone that " Your situation is not as bad as it seems" that he is bitter. Most people do not have their lives in order at the age of 19. I certainly didn't. It is actually tough to be that age. And like you I was in the military at that age from 1969-1972. I didn't quite have my life entirely straight at the age of 28 either but I was well on my way. I think that in your posts you are justifying your own problems. It looks to me as if you harbor the bitterness because you don't yet have your own life straight. But this is only my impression. More foolish "Old people speak."