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Where do I begin...?

To anyone bothering to read this....this may very well be the last entry I make in a long time. And if things don't work out...ever.

I have a small glimmer left of a chance at graduation. Well, in all honesty, I could take the 'easy' route, but that's not me. This trial is going to test me, test my will, and WHEN I make it, I WILL be there clad in a black gown, hat and paper in my hand, saying to the world, 'I did it,'. After that will be collage, EMT training and someday, a proud member of protectors and heroes, Fire Rescue..

Life...it's just one big trail after another. I really did feel like quitting here...school and the stress of it all, I was thinking of quitting..in more ways that one....if you catch my drift. But what kind of man is that? I will not be weak when others need me to be strong. I will not cave when life throws me another trial to brace. I will not bow to becoming a better person, a man, more of a man than my father claimed to be. I WILL NOT BOW. I will take these into stride, rise up from the rest and close my hand around my prize, I will have victory, and NO ONE will stop me from claiming it. Not even my biggest enemy as of late:

Myself...

So if this is goodbye to Gaia, my friends here, and to my years of childhood, I bid thee farewell, for this summer, this short 74 days of freedom, fun and future, I will enter a boy, come out a man. And though I feel as if this chapter will be the 'Latest Big Thing', I know more will come, and I will be ready for it when it does.

I leave you now with my new creed:

"Come what my, come with it all. I shall stand, and never fall."

So long Gaia,

Robert Fullmer aka Fate Ryku