expectation

It is always a difficult process making new friends and bridging that interactive gap, especially for people seeking new dates and partners. But wishing, hoping and dreaming about finding our ideal partner, without any form of strategy will lead nowhere. Serious people do not leave everything to chance. They try their utmost to increase the possibilities of meeting that ideal person by doing something about it, even if it is to strike up a simple conversation. A lack of interest in others, exaggerated fears, a need for approval, a focus on ourselves and social protocol (especially for women) make it hard for us to communicate or use our initiative to bridge that gap with a stranger.

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They lure our children into joining the service with big promises and high ideals, pack them off to a foreign country to fight a war and then don't even bother to outfit them with enough key protective equipment including armored vehicles, roadside-bomb countermeasures and communications gear.

How many young men and women might have come home if they had been issued the right gear? What could be more important than equipping someone's loved one with the right gear to keep them safe and bring them home. How could our leaders not send enough equipment to deter roadside bombs with equipment designed to foil the roadside bombs by interfering with cell-phone signals that may be used to detonate them? What kind of people do that?

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So my trials and tribulations are well documented throughout the BP community. I guess it’s easier for me to talk to people I don’t know. To be honest, it’s all a little embarrassing because deep down I think there is an element of weakness involved when you complain.

Anyways, today I had an interview and it went okay, but the job does not start until June. I would love to wait because it is a really nice opportunity, but I am just not afforded that luxury at the present time. At the same time, I may not even be one of the candidates the compnay is considering. It' s a three step interview process so who knows. None of this is that important to what I have to say. What is important to me is that as I rode the bus in my favorite gold tie and square toed Steve Maddens, partially because I did not drive out to Cali where I now reside and thus do not have a car and partially because my license was revoked due to my own misguidedness let’s call it (spell checker says misguidedness is not a word), I realized it was time to man up.

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