TAKING THE LEAD..A MAN'S DANCE TO THE TOP chapt 6

at the tender age of 34, yes i can say that i am successful, but because of my hunger for success and the ability to gain more, hell no i'm not satisfied. i'm grateful but satisfied i think not. i think of the road i took to get here and how now i should feel like i'm on top of the world. but if i start to feel like that , that feeling in itself makes me feel like i have accomplished all that i can and for me thats never gonna happen. i could be 89 years old and i would still be trying to accomplish more things better things. and this drive started many years ago. i saw racism , i've experienced it first hand. i know what its like to pay more for a car loan than others because basically in some people's opinion i was never suppose to get it in the first place. i know what its like to be in bad relationships to give your heart to someone only for them to play soccer ball with it and score the winning goal like a fake ass jess in bend it like beckham GOAL! i have been through alot, and i took these experiences to heart so that i could learn from my mistakes and learn from the mistakes of others as well. and what i learned was that i was not only good. but i was DAMN GOOD! at that. and it felt good to finally start to succeed. i mean lests be real people, being broke is a bitch! i hated going through that. i hated getting my heart stomped on by girls that now want my number, you've got to be kidding me right. i hated being looked at funny when i would go to jc penny and charge a christmas gift and the manager would ask me for 5 forms of id, my social security number, family history, and a urine sample. its crazy man. but yet i've been through all of that shit and i am still able to keep a level head. the question is always how? but i'll answer that with why?

you see when climbing the ladder of life, you get to hear so many stories of others, some good some bad, but because most of the ones i heard were bad i put myself in 3rd gear when it came to my life and then i was off. yes i became a man. a man that we as men should have been from the jump. and i'm not bragging i'm convinced. what you want in life is always attainable. your goals can always be reached. set your sights high and climb for them because that is what being a man is all about.