Why I left San Angelo

Our family never in practice selected where we could live, the US Air Force made that decision with my father. In other words, we “ended up” in San Angelo, Texas. When considering college, I don’t think I ever even entertained the idea of going to school in San Angelo (ASU), I applied to UT-Austin, A&M-Corpus Christie and UT-San Antonio; the only viable option was UTSA, as my mother lived there, I already had a friend there (Nick) and my brother (Rod) was there soon after. I was excited about leaving San Angelo and nervous to be new in San Antonio – and the truth is I never once had the idea of moving back to San Angelo; put another way, the question is, why didn’t I want to stay in San Angelo? Although I was perhaps unable to articulate this at the time, the truth is that I just did not fit in. My name, my background, my culture, my frame of thinking, my aspirations and maybe several factors contributed to the feeling that I was not to stay there and that my destiny was to leave.