Organizational Members |
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Erika Rodriguez |
Jason Martins |
Maurice Robinson |
John Kane |
Carl Anderson |
My Interests |
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Family |
Star Wars |
Collecting |
Recovery |
Thrill Seeking |
My Pets |
ello there! My name is John and I hate to sound cliché but I guess the best place to start is at the beginning. I was born in the state of Florida in the good ole’ U.S.A. on September 17th, 1967. I am married and have three children, a boy age 15, a girl age 15, and another girl age 13.
In 1977 when Star Wars came out (did you notice I didn’t call it ‘A New Hope’? It’ll always be Star Wars to me.) I was a ten year old with an imagination that took him to planets like Tatooine on grand space adventures just like Luke Skywalker. I loved Star Wars, had a crush on Princess Liea, I thought R2-D2 and C-3P0 were cool as hell, I thought Obi Wan was a bad ass for being able to bend the wills of the ‘weak minded’ and I didn’t mind being the bad guy as long as it was Darth Vader. The next two movies were just as awesome and I still judge every sci-fi film I see against The Star Wars Trilogy. Then there were the dark times, the sixteen years in between the Star Wars movies. A lot was to happen in my life in the years to follow. Some of which I kinda wish I could say they never happened. Both things that happened to me as a kid and things I did to myself as an adult. I had allowed drug addiction and alcoholism to bring me to such a low point in my life that many that know me are surprised and amazed that I survived. In part I blame my inability to and lack of having someone to talk to about what I feeling.
Anyway.....fast forward 20 odd years and I found myself re-introduced to the love of Star Wars collecting when my Uncle Jeff gave me a box full of some old Star Wars stuff from when I was a kid, including the entire set of BK glasses from the original movies. This coupled with the hype of the new release of Star Wars to come and I was hooked all over again. Here I am, 36 years old being able to do the things I always wanted to, whether it's shooting pool at home or playing one of my full size arcade games or doing the family stuff it's only because of N.A. and A.A. that I've gotten this far but it was my Higher Power (whom I choose to call Jesus Christ) that brought me to N.A. and A.A.
My life has gotten better by ten fold. I’ve opened and closed a business (and I’m ok with it) and I met a very beautiful woman at a ZZ Top concert whom I married on March 17, 2002. I've gone back to school for my second obsession, computers! I’ve been able to take several trips that I never thought I’d be able to, hell I never thought I’d live to be twenty four to be honest. I’ve been able to go skydiving, ballooning, gone to washington D.C., lot’s of Disney trips and I’ve been able to get back to what I love.....Star Wars! But seriously it's because of my past, being abused as a child and because of my present life, being a recovering drug addict, that I devote my time to Outreach, Inc. I will do whatever I must to save just one child or keep them from slipping through the cracks.