Sometimes you wonder why people with too much potentials to succeed in life tend to screw everything up. Sometimes it appears as if those who want it so badly don't get it, and those who have it act like they don't need it. Crazy shit, right? I know; been there, done that, is probably the reason why I am not PhD today. But I guess John Milton was right when he said that "the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
Growing up, you have so much time on your hands that you spend a considerable amount of it on inconsiderable things, like that foolish hunt for street credibility. You want to belong so fast that you forget that there are smarter ways of getting there, until that life you think you're leading ends up playing you. Personally, I am just so glad that I am speaking in the past tense, because it's a sign of survival.
If you're reading this and by God you're young enough to change the way you live, ask yourself if your survival is guaranteed. If not, start getting your act together; take advantage of the piece of good life you have, no matter how boring you think it is, because the saddest thing you wouldn't want to inflict on yourself is to sit in your tomorrow's moments blaming Obama from afar, or harping on what you might have been if you had played your cards right.
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