Never Settle

     I've never been one for settling. Throughout my years of growing up I have moved four different times and have lived in nine different houses. It all starts with being born in Alabama and living there for my two first years of life and then moving to Annapolis, Maryland. Not to exciting there with those state, but I have traveled to places that some can only dream of. In August of 2007 I moved from a city in Maryland all the way to the city of North Yorkshire in England. What a move that was. I lived in England just four hours north of the infamous city of London. My family and I moved when I was nine years old and it was much harder then it might seem. I lived in Maryland for seven years of my life and made some great friends and even some people that I still call family. Just imagine

yourself leaving those kind of people at any age... It is difficult. Being nine years old and moving over seas is a crazy thing to think about, especially with that time being some of the most critical times in life. I'm here telling you now... education in England isn't half as "complicated" as it is in the states, it was a huge change for such a small kid. It is a lot of emotional and mental stress, leaving behind the ones you love in to a foreign country with out any help. It made me sick to my stomach for the first week of being there, but like they say; you don't know what you had until you have lost it... It is very true. I only lived in England for three years and it is honestly one of those things that you can't wait for it to be over when it first happened. I was a young and scared kid with no friends at the time, because I was the "new" kid. However; I soon developed great friendships with everyone in my grade which was only fourteen of us (lived on a R.A.F Base). I said for a short amount of time that I couldn't wait for it to be over until I developed those bonds, then I didn't ever want it to end. Being a military kid isn't easy, the moving is the most painful because you develop some unbreakable friendships and then you have to leave them to start on a whole new adventure with people you don't know, things you have never seen, and places that you have never been. It has been one of the hardest things in my life, but I wouldn't change it for the world. I got to go to places some can only dream of and I got to travel Europe before I even hit double digits.After three years I finally found myself in Virginia where I have made new friends and become close enough with some that I can now call my family. My traveling experiences have made me a  more educated and better man. You sometimes don't realize that there is more in the world then the United States. It is my favorite country by far, but I liked to have lived in places that expanded my education and made me more culturally knowledgeable. It is one of those experiences that some will never be able to have and I was blessed to be in that situation even thought I didn't feel that way at first. Just one of the things I would say is to never get to comfortable in any situation, because you never know when something can change. Never settle.