Addie K...
Kubasaki High School
There are so many normals, are not normal. Being used to war planets flying over, over my dad being gone for months on end. That saying goodbye to kids in school is forever.
That wasn’t odd, it was just how it was. So, when you point it out, it doesn’t feel special. Every time this month comes it feels like you're pointing out a single fish in the sea. You act like this life is grand, or something so unknown. It’s not. Most of are lives are not all that much harder than the lives of kids outside the military system.
The US military is one of the biggest in the world. With every soldier there might be a child of theirs. Sometimes it feels like people over state the things we go through because of it. We’re used to this kinda stuff, stop being so excited about it please. When I’ve really had things to talk about in my life, it wasn’t just because I was moving. It was because of the state of how it was when I left.
I can remember that when moving from Washington D.C to North Carolina . That I was crying in my car, while driving there. Not because I was leaving those people behind, but because months prior at my school we had a bomb threat, adding to the rise of school shootings. I was scared that the teachers and students I knew would die after I left.
That's not something I can blame on being a military child. That's just the world being the world right now. So, before focusing on the one thing in our lives, look at where it takes us, and not just the fact we move all that time.