It's been an interesting couple of days to say the least.

My mom thought that the dog might need to be put to sleep. But it turned out to be an inner infection. So the dog is going to be perfectly fine which is great news.

But the other thing that has really come to the fore front of my mind is joining the Air Force. I'm scheduled to have a meeting with the recruiter on Friday. I'm slightly terrified but I'm excited. I've been doing a lot of reading about Basic Training. It really doesn't seem all that horrible. I can only imagine how bad the Marine Corp Basic would be.

However, as the title of this blog says, I've found the right words this weekend. I watched a Master Theater production last night called "My Boy Jack." It was really quite good and I would recommend it to everyone. The story was about Jack Kipling, who was the son of Rudyard Kipling, going to fight in WWI and becoming his own man. He was killed the day after his 18th birthday. After watching this, I suddenly realized what I've been trying to tell my family about joining the military.

I need to become my own adult. At the age of 21, I still feel like a teenager, just a kid really. I need to separate from everyone and venture out of my comfort zone. I found the right words to describe this feeling I've had since I was 12 years old. It comes as a huge relief to be able to communicate this. Yeah, I might die if I get sent over-seas and I've considered that. But I might die here tomorrow, by accident, having never felt that my life was fulfilled. How can I not fill this need I have?

This is all of course extraordinarily heavy for a blog on a tv.com website. But sometimes just writing things down that other people might read is really nice. It's like scrawling messages on the bathroom wall and knowing that it's anonymous but some people will read it.

Well, hope everyone has a good week ahead of them.