I’ve got promoted to CIC today. We, 5, officers got promoted today and had a small ceremony. Everyone’s parents and friends were there but i was the only one all by my self. I didn’t invite my friends because i knew they all are busy in exams and some are at work. As for my parents, well it is so dis hearting. I asked dad if he could give me a ride because the place where they were holding the ceremony was really far, i wanted to go on train it would’ve taken me about 2 and half hr to get to the place. So my dad agreed that he is going to drop me, in the morning he asked mom to come along with him. All the way to that place mom was trying to do my brain washing.
Mom and dad want me to go into law school after i finish my bachelor and they want me to quit cadets. For some reason they don’t think air cadets could be a career option. Its true that i have joined air cadets because of my personal interest and i didn’t join to make good money or anything. We all know you cant make good money in military. I agreed that i am going to law school after i finish my degree. I don’t mind taking up law as my career besides i am not wasting any of my credits. (In order to apply in a law school, you first have to do a bachelor in any field, which i am doing right now, and than apply to law school.)
My mom first asked me to give them a call and tell ‘em that you wont be able to continue cadets and fully concentrate on your studies. I didn’t say a word, all this time i was thinking that today was suppose to be a big day for me, they should congratulate me and wish me but instead……… At one point i told my self i’ll quit just to make my parents happy but i couldn’t. They have no idea how much i have gone through to get to this point. All the paper work, interview after interview, medical checkup than another interview. All those days and nights that i have spend for past 3 years working, sometimes i would go straight from school to work and often i would miss my lunch and wont be able to do dinner till 1 in the morning. Guess your dreams, your ambitions, your devotions doesn’t matter at all. My dad dropped me in front of the Field Regiment building, i was so mad i didnt asked my parents to come with me nor they bother coming with me. I knew they don’t wana come in because they don’t want me to be there in first place.
It was a very old building even the front door was like those big thick wooden doors. I had to rang the bell couple of times before they opened the door, which was odd. One of the officer opened the door and i stepped in, i asked him where the ceremony is being held and he told me to go to the 2nd floor to my right there is a conference room. I took the stairs and went to the 2nd floor. I saw another officer who than asked me to fill out a paper and led me inside the conference room. It was noting like those conference rooms with big windows. As i said the whole building was old, the interior decoration was antic too. It was a huge rooms with old style sofas for guests on one side of the room and on the other side there were chairs. All the officers were socializing, i found my CO there as well who was there because of me. I was the only one getting promoted from his unit so he had to be there.
After the ceremony began i was the 3rd one when they called me. I went there took an oath, given a shoulder flash and signed a paper took some pictures and came back. After the ceremony, all the newly promoted officer had to stay and fill out some more paper work :S. (eeekkk) It took me us more than 2 hours, we had to do measuring for our new uniforms and stuff. After we all finished our paper work, we had a one-to-one interview with an officer. After the interview i came outside of the building where dad was waiting for me. I said sorry to my dad that he had to wait for so long, he was like “no i just came like 5 minutes ago, your mom and i went for shopping.”
I sat in my car, mom didn’t ask anything about the ceremony nor she me. Guess it wasn’t big of the day for me after all. Who cares if i got promoted today to CIC, who cares if i was excited for all this thing till yesterday, who care i am going to be able to wear a blue uniform, who cares i’ll be able to go for courses, who cares after i successfully finish the courses i’ll get promoted to higher rank and most of all who cares what i want!
