These Coins From These Days
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11/26/2025
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From my early teens to the middle-aged anomaly I am today: these 25 years have both impressed me, and made me cringe. All I know is that I’m glad I was born when I was, and therefore won’t ever be studying for a high school history exam on the first quarter of this century.
But one thing is for sure: we are in the golden age of shipping efficiency. I’m actually on the front lines of that; driving a tow tractor at the Cincinnati Airport, for one of the three global hubs of a top-tier shipping company. We stay busy all year; and there’s never a moment when we don’t have both planes in the air, and trucks on the roads.
Interestingly, my experiences during this first quarter have enough content to make up a book, which I might write some day. At 15 years old, in June of ‘01, I started a 14-months stretch at a troubled-youth boarding school. That school was shut down in 2004, after some of the correction tactics rose to the surface of the attention of child welfare services. The last two years of high school were centered around my junior-staff job at my local church in Las Vegas, then I was off to Bible College to prepare for a future that I often regret not seeing through to the end. (But wallowing in regret is a poor way to live, so I try to pull myself out of that muck before I’m in it for too long.)
After dropping out, I was off to the Marines for a tumultuous, short-lived career. I made mistakes, then spent the rest of my 20’s blaming my former command for not retaining me; while spiraling into a bad gambling addiction (amongst other hindering vices). During those years, I worked eventful graveyards at 7-Eleven that could comprise their own volume of writing.
Then rolled around the age of 30. In July of 2016, I moved to Cincinnati in mutual pursuit of a relationship with a lady who had attended my boarding school on the girls’ side. That didn’t work out, but I decided to stay here after meeting the lady I’m with now. We’ve been together for six of the happiest and steadiest years of my life so far.
Like this set, I certainly still have a ways to go. I wish I had caught up with my age sooner, but part of me will always be that troubled young man in those hyper-structured environments; while currently striving to navigate freedom.
Nevertheless, freedom is the state in which I belong. Though a struggling nation, we are free. We are free to reside in whichever area suits us best as individuals, and establish ourselves in our own pursuits of happiness. That’s what I have accomplished so far, however late I may have been, and my growing collection represents much of what I have to show for God’s grace in the development of my life.
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These Coins From These Days
By Danny1986
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