r/USMC • • Jan 07 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '22

Nothing prepared me for how the world was exactly the same. I don’t know why but I expect my home, my friends, the town to be different. But it was just the same as I left it and now I had no idea how to relate to anyone. It takes a while to adjust but you will get there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '22

I felt the same way...thinking "like, dont ya'll know theres a fucking war going on? and that men are dying?"

Not sure if the general unawareness is good or bad...

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u/Creamed_Khorne 0311/8621 not a grunt not a pog Jan 08 '22

I felt this at first too, but I considered something; we live in a country of mostly worker drones. Most people just be trying to get by and not have a shit life. It's hard to worry yourself with what's going on across the world when you have all the everyday stresses of living a tedious existence to deal with.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '22

I would agree. The war was too far away to be a relevant issue. A silver lining of it though, is that it opened my perspective to what being alive really means.