HAWAiiAN 808
September 15th, 2011, 03:56 AM
Basically, today has been probably one of the worst days i ever had in about 9 years. Only at school for about 40 minutes when i get a call to the office. Walk into the principals office, and then i find out my aunty who has been battling a form of cancer for about 5 months has passed away before i got to school. After talking to my parents and the principal, i decided to stay in school and just ride it out until i school finished.
But about 2 hours later during my 5th period class, i get another call to the office. I walk in and i see 2 army commanding officers waiting in front of the main lobby desk. After we get settled in the conference room, they begin to tell me that i have been disqualified because of my tattoos. They said my first tattoo of my grandpa's name on my lower leg is to big and would cause distractions to other people in basic training. And then they said my second tattoo which is the "rasta star of david", is believed to be an extremist tattoo because it symbolizes people who smoke weed and dont want to conform to anyone. After debating my case on how my first tattoo would not be a distraction, and my second tattoo having nothing to do with extremist ideologies, they still said i was disqualified, and getting a waiver for my tattoos would not make a difference. After they said that, i just stood up, shook their hands and told them "sorry i wasted your time", and left the conference room. After another 30 minutes of talking to my parents and the principal, i decided to leave school and just go home.
But then as we are pulling up into our driveway, i catch a glimpse of a flatbed tow truck lowering my truck off its bed. It is at that point that i find out my brother took my truck to a mall, and then while there, it got vandalized and my front window got smashed in. I guess its because my brother used my truck last night to go to a party, and during the party, some people got into a fight and people said that my brother and his friends started the fight, and they seen him leave in my truck.
After everything thats happened to me today, my hopes and dreams have been crushed into a million pieces and i feel like their is no reason for me to even finish high school, let alone try to pick up the pieces and figure out what went wrong that everything came crashing down today. I already told my parents that i will not be going to school for a week just because i am emotionally drained and i know i wont be able to concentrate while at school. And i told my friends to not contact me for a while because i know everyone will be asking the same old question of "how are you doing?". I just feel like nothing will ever come through for me and i am wasting my time in trying to make myself feel better.
But about 2 hours later during my 5th period class, i get another call to the office. I walk in and i see 2 army commanding officers waiting in front of the main lobby desk. After we get settled in the conference room, they begin to tell me that i have been disqualified because of my tattoos. They said my first tattoo of my grandpa's name on my lower leg is to big and would cause distractions to other people in basic training. And then they said my second tattoo which is the "rasta star of david", is believed to be an extremist tattoo because it symbolizes people who smoke weed and dont want to conform to anyone. After debating my case on how my first tattoo would not be a distraction, and my second tattoo having nothing to do with extremist ideologies, they still said i was disqualified, and getting a waiver for my tattoos would not make a difference. After they said that, i just stood up, shook their hands and told them "sorry i wasted your time", and left the conference room. After another 30 minutes of talking to my parents and the principal, i decided to leave school and just go home.
But then as we are pulling up into our driveway, i catch a glimpse of a flatbed tow truck lowering my truck off its bed. It is at that point that i find out my brother took my truck to a mall, and then while there, it got vandalized and my front window got smashed in. I guess its because my brother used my truck last night to go to a party, and during the party, some people got into a fight and people said that my brother and his friends started the fight, and they seen him leave in my truck.
After everything thats happened to me today, my hopes and dreams have been crushed into a million pieces and i feel like their is no reason for me to even finish high school, let alone try to pick up the pieces and figure out what went wrong that everything came crashing down today. I already told my parents that i will not be going to school for a week just because i am emotionally drained and i know i wont be able to concentrate while at school. And i told my friends to not contact me for a while because i know everyone will be asking the same old question of "how are you doing?". I just feel like nothing will ever come through for me and i am wasting my time in trying to make myself feel better.