Shawshank

I'm an open book, most people just don't take the time to read the pages. Instead, they quickly look at the pictures and think that's all there is.
I like to have fun and enjoy life. Making the most out of life will make the most out of us as people. I have always been the type of person that spends a lot of time and effort trying to improve upon what I've been given. I believe in potential and actualizing that potential. It is not what you can do, but realizing that you can usually do more.
People can be shaped as much by their own will as they can by their biological structure and environmental surroundings. Therefore, with a great deal of effort, it can be said that one can overcome anything. That also includes many parts of one's own nature. Whether it's the good or the bad, people can and will change. However, it is up to you to choose the correct path.
I'm originally from Indiana, out in the middle of nowhere. I had a relatively good childhood and was a quiet kid up until just before I became a teenager, then I began to emerge from my shell. I was a hard person to control, but that is because of my independent nature. I did a lot of stupid things and learned a great deal of lessons. After years of practice and hard work, I'm now the well-rounded person I am today. Just after high school, I went into the army as an electrical technician and repaired a variety of different electronics. I spent four years in the army, including a year in Iraq and got out to go to college. I'm now working on becoming a radiologist. Being a full time student, training regularly, dissolving the ignorance of those who care to listen, uniting people for the common good of the human race, modeling, and working part-time makes for a busy life. I enjoy leading my busy life and being a responsible man.
Many people have mentioned over the years that it is possible to be too nice. Frankly, there is no such thing. Only this society has created such a belief. I believe in kindness, caring, consideration, compassion, and freedom of choice. What about you? ^_^
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Life is a balancing game
Sides and scales to measure
Nothing stays the same
Happiness, pain, or pleasure
Know that time is only an illusion
That creates past, present, and future
Growing and learning, a parable fusion
Stability holding us together like a suture
Wisdom will come with time and experience
Along with effort and an open mind
Knowledge can close the door to ignorance
And release us from the chains that bind
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Armor
The past is my armor
I am the blacksmith
Uncaring people, the kiln
Pain, the fire
My mind, the hand
My heart, the finished product
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Stone and Mortar
The castle stretches from the sea to the clouds
Towering so high above me and all else it shrouds
Creating a shadow over those who helped build it
Walls hiding all that it is filled with
No matter the strength of the stone
Weak mortar made from lies, cracks and crumbles
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Candlelit shadows play on the walls of our dreams...
Time's boots tracking mud on our silken loving ways...
Cry until ducts bleed red tears of losses...
Crimson acceptance of a love that sadly cannot ever be expressed....
Touch the Weathered walls that withstood the test of time and seasons of rain...
Watch them turn to dust and fall to the floor, raining down, over, and between your fringers...
A sword in the stone which few could ever pull from the dust of lost hope...
Christmas wrapping paper crumpled, torn, and twisted beside a box full of love you've always dreamed of...
Pulled from within, a soft, warm, and fuzzy sqeaky puppy with a wet nose..
only to lick your lips with a loving kiss of acceptance...
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I edited my profile with the help of your mom.