please read and let the advice sink in for a bit
okay well let's start with the obvious. my last entry was true. liz is pregnant so i'm gonna be a daddy. yes i am happy. i would have liked to wait but it's too late now. i'm just glad i'm as stable with my life as i am. i havea good job, going to school, a rent-free place to live, reliable car, and actually have a high ambition to succeed in the future.
i guess realizing that you have someone in your life that you have to support really opens your head to whats really important in life and what you should be putting your time and money to. not drugs. not car parts. not designer name-brand clothes. but i nice place to live, a good car to drive, people to look to when you need them. moving to tampa and almost dying in a car accident helped too. that's why the past 4 months i've been saving money out the ass. if i had never spent money on making my cars look hot or buying cars that looked hot or were faster, i would probably be looking at another $12,000 or so in the past 4 years that i've held a job. advice to you guys now to your friend who's matured further than he's needed to: save your money, save your time. yeah, you only live once, but money can only be spent once, and life is too short to be spending it on stupid shit. i mean look at me and cars. i had 2 cars in high school : an eclipse with $3000 put into it, and an SRT-4 with $1000. i've gotten pulled over 8 times and flipped my car. that's cost me over $600 just in tickets along with my insurance doubling. and be a grown up. don't get a job to have mall-spending money. get a job so you can go up to your parents and say "hey, i'm making enough money now to pay for my cellphone and car insurance every month, here's the money for this month." you do that and you're one real step from leaving middle school. cause think, none of us had bills in middle school, and a lot of you guys don't have bills now. you make that step into being an adult and you won't be like every other college student graduating with your bachelor's at 21 and starting a $20,000/year job waiting tables at chili's while their parents still pay for their $50/month cellphone bill. money is power. there's no power in buying a nice $200 jacket, and no power in buying an ounce of good dro. everyone just look back at your life now and compare it back to freshman year when you were 14/15. what job were you holding then, and now? how much money did you have saved then and now? what did you want to be in life then and now and how did you plan to get there? what were you spending your money on then and now? if the answers to those questions are "part time minimum wage job then and now", "no money saved then and now", "don't know what i want to me then and now or how to get there" and "spent my money on clothes, beer, drugs, and random shit then and now"...then you know what, you're still a 14 year old but taller. that's it.
i guess i'm just saying that with a new life coming into this world, i'm proud to say that atleast i'm stable enough to support myself. i don't ask my parents for money to buy food, don't ask them for their credit card to buy stuff, or $20 to fill my car up with gas, and haven't asked them those things in years. and as my friends, i want you guys to be able to say the same. to be proud and say "i pay my own bills, my own shit, and have ambition to succeed in life because i don't waste mine and my parents' paychecks on alcohol, drugs, and stupid shit. why? cause i'm not 14 anymore".
i guess realizing that you have someone in your life that you have to support really opens your head to whats really important in life and what you should be putting your time and money to. not drugs. not car parts. not designer name-brand clothes. but i nice place to live, a good car to drive, people to look to when you need them. moving to tampa and almost dying in a car accident helped too. that's why the past 4 months i've been saving money out the ass. if i had never spent money on making my cars look hot or buying cars that looked hot or were faster, i would probably be looking at another $12,000 or so in the past 4 years that i've held a job. advice to you guys now to your friend who's matured further than he's needed to: save your money, save your time. yeah, you only live once, but money can only be spent once, and life is too short to be spending it on stupid shit. i mean look at me and cars. i had 2 cars in high school : an eclipse with $3000 put into it, and an SRT-4 with $1000. i've gotten pulled over 8 times and flipped my car. that's cost me over $600 just in tickets along with my insurance doubling. and be a grown up. don't get a job to have mall-spending money. get a job so you can go up to your parents and say "hey, i'm making enough money now to pay for my cellphone and car insurance every month, here's the money for this month." you do that and you're one real step from leaving middle school. cause think, none of us had bills in middle school, and a lot of you guys don't have bills now. you make that step into being an adult and you won't be like every other college student graduating with your bachelor's at 21 and starting a $20,000/year job waiting tables at chili's while their parents still pay for their $50/month cellphone bill. money is power. there's no power in buying a nice $200 jacket, and no power in buying an ounce of good dro. everyone just look back at your life now and compare it back to freshman year when you were 14/15. what job were you holding then, and now? how much money did you have saved then and now? what did you want to be in life then and now and how did you plan to get there? what were you spending your money on then and now? if the answers to those questions are "part time minimum wage job then and now", "no money saved then and now", "don't know what i want to me then and now or how to get there" and "spent my money on clothes, beer, drugs, and random shit then and now"...then you know what, you're still a 14 year old but taller. that's it.
i guess i'm just saying that with a new life coming into this world, i'm proud to say that atleast i'm stable enough to support myself. i don't ask my parents for money to buy food, don't ask them for their credit card to buy stuff, or $20 to fill my car up with gas, and haven't asked them those things in years. and as my friends, i want you guys to be able to say the same. to be proud and say "i pay my own bills, my own shit, and have ambition to succeed in life because i don't waste mine and my parents' paychecks on alcohol, drugs, and stupid shit. why? cause i'm not 14 anymore".