Mark Allen Barger-05/14/2025

Journal Entry

Not sure where to really began here with this journal. I have so much to share. Have been through a lot over the course of the last 30 plus years. I am 49 years old and have no direction in my life. My internal compass points in all directions. I don’t know what I will do when I get out or what will become of my life. All I’ve known is prison since 1995. that was the year my nightmare with legal system began. I was 19 years old from Long Beach, Ca. Had just graduated from high school the year before. tried a semester at Long Beach City College, but felt it just wasn’t for me. I was lost and depressed. Hopeless and angry. I just existed. Felt like an outcast and thought very little of myself. Time and opportunities past me by.