Not Searching for Something, Anymore.

This blog was born almost three years ago. I began it for many reasons. The most important of which was it gave me a place to gather my thoughts, talk about what I'd done that day or how I'd felt, and was sort of like a best friend in that I could open up as much as I wanted on a daily basis and it was always there to listen.

For the longest time I was searching for something, something that I guess in its simplest form could be referred to as love. Although I thought I knew what it was, I wasn't sure what it truly felt like or how or even if I would find it.

This blog has helped carry me through lengthy periods of lonliness, during which I was entirely uncertain on whether I'd spend my future romantically or in solitude. There were also periods where I questioned what I was doing in life, and whether I'd be happy doing it for many years. Eventually this blog followed me through some major decisions, and detailed the changes I went through as a result.

As I see it, the original major purposes for this blog are no longer factors. I no longer have the urge to sit down at my computer and babble on for pages and pages. Now, I yearn to pick up the phone, or flip on the webcam and bust open a chat window, and talk to an actual genuine human being about all I would have babbled about in this blog and more.

For those who have used this blog as a learning tool as they go through the process of joining or living out their lives in the USAF, I apologize for preventing you from continuing to do so. I do invite you however to contact me via any of the methods to the right with any questions you may have although I currently am only just under halfway through the JSUNT program, including future aspects of the program or USAF that I will eventually discover. As time passes I'll always be glad to entertain queries about life in the Air Force and as a Navigator in particular.

Six months ago, I made a decision to begin a relationship with someone I felt was a perfect match for me. On the date of this post, I realized a lifelong dream of proposing to someone whom I loved; someone I knew loved me equally in return. The final portion of that dream is of course that individual's affirmative response, and as it turned out that happened in real life as well.

I've rarely used names in this blog, but for once I'd like the world to know how special Cheryl is, and how happy I am that we'll be spending our lives together. Never have I been more sure of anything.

Following my JSUNT graduation in February, sometime between then and the end of spring will be the official ceremony, taking place in Orlando, Florida, for reasons obvious to most.

I know not what else to say, other than I wish all of you luck in finding that special someone if you haven't already, and congratulations if you're as lucky as I.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a pleasure.

This is Matthew P. Wilson, signing off.