by Michael Brumfield

Created on: April 22, 2008

I grew up going to church with my mother and grandmother. I spent every Sunday sitting in a pew listening to the preacher and waiting for hymns. It is a fond memory for me but in my teen years something changed. I began to question all of the scriptures I had so blindly believed in before without question. I started to see holes in the bible and in the very corner stone of Christianity itself. I started to wonder about other religions and how they to thought that they were the one true religion. I studied as many religions as I could to the fullest extent of my capabilities only to end up confused altogether.

I gave up on religion entirely and decided that the only thing that I could count on was myself and lived my life in that manner for a long time. I mocked God and made fun of the religious students in my high school. I got many laughs from the other kids and smiled as the holier than thou kids walked away from me with their shoulders slumped in embarrassment. It made me feel good to tear down their happy little world. I regret doing this to this very day. It seemed like the more evil I was to everyone the more popular I became so I was evil to everyone.

I didn't just pick on the poor kids or the unpopular kids; to me everyone was fair game. I would plan my acts of evil in advance most of the time. If it were game day I knew the cheerleaders would wear their uniforms to school that day so I would take blueberry topping with me to school. I would fling it on their backs and wait for people to start laughing and they always did. There was this one kid who was over weight that I went out of my way everyday just to slap him in the face and tell him he didn't need to eat anymore at lunch. If a school shooting had happened at my high school I probably would have been the first person that they would kill. I was horrible to everyone; even my friends were not safe from my actions.

I graduated and joined the Air Force immediately there after. I left home with the same arrogance that I had had in school and arrived with it in basic training. My mother told me that the military would straighten me out and she was right but not in the way that she thought that it would. I made it through basic training with little effort at all and with almost no incidents and although I was unruly I was not stupid by any means. I scored high on my ASVAB test and was recruited by all the branches of service.

I then made my way to tech school to learn my job and made friends easily.

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