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[willelena-blog]

The Army - Basic training at ITC Catterick

I started at ITC (infantry training center) Catterick on the 23rd of March 2008, a Sunday. I turned up around early afternoon and was escorted through the camp by a para recruit that had broken his ankle in the first week of training 6 months earlier. He had been in rehab (the term for the place broken soldiers went to get fixed) and was ready to re-join a platoon. My initial impressions were…

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[anti5piral]

Two weeks to the day till i start my 6months training in the army! its been such a long process(about a year now) but its going to be well worth the wait, just got to keep cracking on with the fitness and time will fly!

[goodthoughtslikesunbeams]

Cuddles and spoons and asdfghjl please? 

Missing Dom like crazy. A lot of my friends are going into LDRs now because they're leaving for Uni and are asking me for advice and I don't know quite what to tell them?  Like, do I be honest? And tell them how cripplingly, soul-destroyingly, heartbreaking it is when you snatch a weekend here and there together and then your SO leaves again? How nothing feels right when they're gone and it's only when you get to see them that you feel a weight that you didn't know was there lift off your chest? How weeks into the separation, you will STILL turn over and reach for them in the middle of the night only to find empty space.

Because if I'm honest with them, I'll have to tell them how shit it is the vast majority of the time. 

But then I'll have to be honest and tell them how fucking incredible it is when you do get to see them. 

This is going to sound so cliche, but it's like everything's better when they're here. Like everything before was black and white and when you see them it's like colour has returned and you appreciate it all the more. 

Yes you need trust, and honesty and communication but you need that in any healthy relationship! You just need a little bit more when you're in a situation like this. 

And you WILL feel shitty, and hopeless and lonely, no matter how many people surround you. But if you're with the right person you'll feel loved and adored and beautiful even when you can't see them. And all the shit? It won't even matter. Because they're worth it. Always. 

So fuck the people who don't understand. Who sneer and criticize and belittle your relationship because 'if you can't see them, it's not a real relationship' Because you're happy.  And at the end of it all that is all that will ever matter.