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I recently applied to the army and tried to sort my life out, you see I am not that smart and not that successful in life but self-aware and intelligent enough to hate myself for it. I want to get married and have children, but cannot do that without a decent income.
I decided to apply for the army, since it provides a salary and I’d earn more than I do now.

However I faile the medical because I wear glasses and have poor eyesight, I didn’t find out until a few months after applying, I got my hopes up after passing the first interview. I haven’t been to church since. I remember my priest asked about my application, so I told him God had a different plan for me. I haven’t been to church since and become very nihilistic.

I am somewhat glad that I didn’t get into the army, as I don’t support current Western values of liberalism, pro-LGBT and feminism and multiculturalism. So I would not have liked dying for those things. However, I feel just lost like I did before becoming Catholic.

Anyway sorry for rambling, I’m feeling a bit lost.
 
Fight the battle in your own soul. The wages are very high indeed, and the cause is good.
 
I’m surprised that having weak eyes would disqualify one from the British Army. (It never did here in the colonies; here the joke was “if you have bad eyesight, you go to the front line”!!!)

Be that as it may, God provided for your body and its visual ability, so you not qualifying for army service is just an instance of His leading. Don’t become discouraged.

Shalom and ICXC NIKA
 
You say that you feel lost. My friend, you are going to be much more lost without God and His Church, than with them. Go to church and go to confession. You will be better off. If you are young and relatively healthy and live in a relatively free country like Britain, you have everything to live for. Do you perhaps have clinical depression? Have you seen a doctor recently?
 
I’ll pray for you. In the meantime, go back to church! God will show you the way!
 
Blood_Angel said:
I recently applied to the army and tried to sort my life out, you see I am not that smart and not that successful in life but self-aware and intelligent enough to hate myself for it. I want to get married and have children, but cannot do that without a decent income.
I decided to apply for the army, since it provides a salary and I’d earn more than I do now.

However I faile the medical because I wear glasses and have poor eyesight, I didn’t find out until a few months after applying, I got my hopes up after passing the first interview. I haven’t been to church since. I remember my priest asked about my application, so I told him God had a different plan for me. I haven’t been to church since and become very nihilistic.

I am somewhat glad that I didn’t get into the army, as I don’t support current Western values of liberalism, pro-LGBT and feminism and multiculturalism. So I would not have liked dying for those things. However, I feel just lost like I did before becoming Catholic.

Anyway sorry for rambling, I’m feeling a bit lost.
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Praying for you.

May you get right on track.
 
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