Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. ~Frederick Douglas
I ran into an old friend today. I was so happy and excited to see her because I don't think I've seen her since '94. I remember her to be reserved and polite...I liked her, but we got outta touch over the years...mostly because we never really hung out...anyway...when I saw her and she opened her mouth; she was BRAND NEW!!!...OMG! The first words outta her mouth was 'you see my car'...In 20 minutes of talking I found out that she's sleeping with some ladies husband and he's leasing this car for her...I found out that she hates, 'ghetto girls'....she only shops downtown...she hates kids....(yada..yada...yada)...I won't be calling her ass---for real! It turned me off---People brag to me all of the time about what they have --big house, big cars...I don't care. I really don't. What matters to me the most is my family. If anyone really knows me that can tell you how close we are as a family....my husband called us "hill-billies" because we all spill out onto the porch at my Grandmother's house on most weekends....that's what makes me feel good, and that's what I'm into...When the weekend nears, I can expect to get a call from my sister Snook, or my brotha, Mav...they want to know if I'm headed to the city...It's like clockwork, that's what we do...see each---we enjoy each other's company...Since my sista Nikki lives in Mississippi, she just wants to call to see what going on---and if something is popping, she in the CHI in a hearbeat because she loves her family and the bond between us is undeniable --THAT'S WHAT IMPRESSES ME---A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS! No grandiose display of wealth or circumstance is enough to make me say WOW!!! Unless you tell me something of true meaning I'm usually not impressed...(Okay...you may get a rise outta me...I just can't think of nothing right now...lol)
Anyway...I've done a lot of STUPID things growing up, believe me I've had to pay for them; I sit here and cringe at how immature I was coming up...I didn't make clear choices, but we live and we learn right? Like Fredrick Douglas said, 'we must certainly pay for all we get'---usually everyone will somehow, and someway...So the next time someone gets in your face and brags about what they have and how they are better than you...show them the back of your head! Why? Because ask yourself...how did they acquire the things that they have --did they sell drugs to our people, did they de-fraud some unsuspecting person on their mortgage loan, did they murder someone and just take what they have...Sleeping with some one's wife/husband....Did they get it from the parents, did they lie, cheat, and steal their way to the top...think about it...If they got it honestly...without hurting anybody to get there...more power to them...I don't think someone should call themselves successful if they can't back it up with a chronicle of their lives...the struggle and strife of what it took to get there. (Not who you knocked down to climb to the top)
Not to discredit the people who have turned their lives around---started doing things for other people or things in the community....
Everybody has a story, but the ones who brag about only want to share part of it!
People who are really "rich" (not just financially, but morally) don't usually brag....If you got there by stepping all over people then you'll pay for it! Some type of way....So when I get these conversations that evoke materialistic, unfeeling things its kind of a turn-off...
I'm no saint...I'm far from, but damn....I'm not an a$$ either...She was an a$$...A BRAND NEW A$$...So much so she made me write about it! Lol...
Anyway...I've done a lot of STUPID things growing up, believe me I've had to pay for them; I sit here and cringe at how immature I was coming up...I didn't make clear choices, but we live and we learn right? Like Fredrick Douglas said, 'we must certainly pay for all we get'---usually everyone will somehow, and someway...So the next time someone gets in your face and brags about what they have and how they are better than you...show them the back of your head! Why? Because ask yourself...how did they acquire the things that they have --did they sell drugs to our people, did they de-fraud some unsuspecting person on their mortgage loan, did they murder someone and just take what they have...Sleeping with some one's wife/husband....Did they get it from the parents, did they lie, cheat, and steal their way to the top...think about it...If they got it honestly...without hurting anybody to get there...more power to them...I don't think someone should call themselves successful if they can't back it up with a chronicle of their lives...the struggle and strife of what it took to get there. (Not who you knocked down to climb to the top)
Not to discredit the people who have turned their lives around---started doing things for other people or things in the community....
Everybody has a story, but the ones who brag about only want to share part of it!
People who are really "rich" (not just financially, but morally) don't usually brag....If you got there by stepping all over people then you'll pay for it! Some type of way....So when I get these conversations that evoke materialistic, unfeeling things its kind of a turn-off...
I'm no saint...I'm far from, but damn....I'm not an a$$ either...She was an a$$...A BRAND NEW A$$...So much so she made me write about it! Lol...
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