In life everything you do leads you on to the next phase, what ever you are going through now is just to prepare you for what is to come in the future, no matter how difficult your condition is today just keep pushing and holding because one day you would look back on all the things in the past and see they were necessary for you to get to where you need to be.
To understand what I meant by the statement in the previous paragraph share with me the story below.
A girl left her family who were working as farmers so she could join the Marines, at first she thought it would be hell but she just had to try it out because she was tired of working at the farm all day and every day. Back at the farm she and her siblings work for old man minch to earn little rewards.
After she joined the Marines her parents were scared because they didn't hear from her for months, they wanted to go over to the city to look for her but it was quite a journey that they probably couldn't afford and they wouldn't even know where to start looking.
On Saturday morning they got a mail from the daughter Alice who they thought must have been enduring a lot on her own while working for the Marines.
The mother was so happy when she got the letter, she quickly took it to her husband so he could read it, he took the later and started reading it:
Dear Ma and Pa,
I am well. Hope you are. Tell brother Walt and brother Elmer that the marine corps beats working for old man minch. Tell them to join up quick before all the spots gets filled up.
When I got here at first I was kind of rest because I had to stay in bed until about 5am, but I am getting used to it because I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer that all you have to do before breakfast is shine some things and smooth your coat. There are no feed to pitch, hogs to slop, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. That's just it, practically nothing.
Men do have to shave though but that's not so bad. There always warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereals, egg, beacon, etc but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, hams, fried eggplants, steak, pie and other regular food, but also tell Walt and Elmer you can sit by the two city boys who live on coffee. If you can work it out with them, their food, plus yours, holds you out until noon which is when you get fed again. Now I know why these city boys can't walk much.
Every now and then we go on "route marches" which the platoon leader says are long walks that's supposed to harden us. If that's what he thinks, it's not my place to tell him any different. The funny thing is a "route match" is about as far as our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.
The sergeant is just like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't really bother you one bit.
The most funniest part of all is, I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't even know why. The bulls-eye is as near as big as a chipmunk head and it doesn't really move, nor does it shoot back at you like the Higgett boys back at home. All you have to do is just lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Also we have something they call hand to hand combat training. On this you have to wrestle with them city boys, but I am always very careful though because them city boys are quite fragile and break very easily. It's not even as close as fighting with that ole bull at home. I am about the best they got in this except for one other guy from silver lake. I have only been able to beat him once, we actually joined the same time but I am just 5'6 and 13 pounds while he is 6'8 and weights about 300 pounds.
Ma and Pa ensure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry up and join in before others at home know about this setup and all the slots gets filled.
Your loving daughter,
Alice".
Hope you understand the story line, initially all she wanted was just to leave the farm and she decided the Marines was her best option and when she joined up she discovered everything she had done or encountered in the past while working at the farm was what made being a marine so easy for her, because the stuff they do are nothing compared to what they normally do back at the farm, so she was pretty much able to scale through it all like it was nothing or just another day at the farm. She had to even reach out to her brothers at the farm who I presume must even work more than she does and tell them to come join her as Marines so they could all live better lives because it was childs play to them.
What ever comes your way is for a reason, every hardship you encounter, you are meant to learn something from it and use that to propel yourself into your future.
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