Just Chance

Well, I was born and raised in Bridge Creek. It's a real shame I didn't get to graduate out there. I spent my last three years of High School at Westmoore. I don't claim Westmoore... it's just where I ended up. I had some good times at Westmoore, but deep down I'm still a Creeker.
Living in the city I've found that I'm not so much the city type. I like quiet star-filled nights with the sounds of nature. And, recently, Ive become General Manager of Love's #52 in Ada, so I'm found a home like place since coming here. It's not quite home but it'll do until I make my way back to the Creek.
So I suppose we should cover the basics. I'm not the same guy you grew up with. I'm not the same guy you went to high school with. I'm not the same guy you went to college with. I'm not the same guy you might of dated. I'm twenty four years old. Old enough to know better but still too young to really care. I'm living the single life, which is good and bad. I've heard tell I'm a relationship guy, but you know life happens.
Some people think I'm an asshole and that's cool. Every is entitled to their own opinion. Sometimes I talk about myself in the third person or refer to myself as "Poppa", and some people don't like that. But I don't care what other people like so I do it anyway. If you think I don't like you... I probably don't. But those who I actually let get to know me, know that I'm pretty much a dork. I don't mind it so much.
Most of the time I entertain myself by taking random pictures of things and myself. I used to hate taking pictures... I'm like a picture whore now though. I usually entertain others by telling really corny jokes and making up random stories, quoting funny movies, and dancing badly... very badly, and well just being me. Lately, I've developed this habit of singing Linkin Park songs in a Scott Stapp-esque voice. It's quite entertaining if I say so myself... and I do.
I'm an Aries if that stuff means anything to ya. Sometimes I'm loud and obnoxious. Sometimes I'm quiet and reserve. I can come off as cocky and arrogant. I'm probably the most honest guy I know. Bottom line, I'll tell you like it is.
I pretty much hate summer because it's so effin' hot, and I pretty much hate winter because it's so effin' cold. Spring is... too wet. So that just leaves fall and it's my fave. Why, you ask? Because everything's so pretty and colorful. Yeah, I just said that.
I wish I had more time for my hobbies. I'm not sure if I remember what it's like to have just me time for hobbies. But, the interest in them is still there. I'd love to take a trip by myself for about a week. Find a nice spot to pitch a tent, do a lot of fishin' by day, and a lot of writing by campfire at night. That would be great, but probably isn't in the near future.
I have myself a pretty good career going. I'm one of the youngest General Manager's in a company that's ranked like 42nd in the Forbes 500 for privately owned company. So that's cool. I'm not sure how I pulled it off but I did. I'm not rich by any means, but if I play my cards right with my Love's Shares and 401K I just might be able to retire a millionaire by the time I'm 40. So here's to that.
This is how I feel about the world. From 'The Change' by Garth Brooks...
"I hear them saying you'll never change things,
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing,
But it's not the world that I am changing,
I do this so this world will know,
That it will not change me."
Live for the moment. It's all you really have.