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You see it!
...Right there in your face.
***THE GLAMOROUS LIFE***
The two story houses with the garage big enough for five cars. The clothes, ladies, and jewels. The "carefreeness"...the so called "success."
While he's at this upscale dimly lit bar surrounded by smiling and laughing "friends." A young lady whispers to her friend, " giiirrrl, look at his watch." He catches them glancing and holds eye contact for a moment. As he slowly leans back in his seat sipping his vodka martini on the rocks. Coincidently the valet comes up and says, "Mr. Brown, your car is ready." As he hands him these shiny keys to his new Porsche. He then gets up, looks over once again as he slowly blinks, nods his head in a way as to say, " farewell ladies, enjoy the evening." Then he proceeds to walk off in slow motion while buttoning his Hugo Boss suit jacket.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
"SNAP BACK TO REALITY, OOPS THERE GOES GRAVITY" Eminem
Like all things success has a DARK SIDE.
There's a lot of sleepless nights. Deep pains that we cover up with smiles. Insecurities that we fight at every moment. We get hyped and motivated. We are strong and seemingly bullet proof, but some of those shots get through. On our knees, alone, crying, at night in those times when no one is looking. Close relationships cant get any farther away at times. Finding out that you meant more to me than I did to you. Not because they're better. But because they refused to see me as the champion I am...Just blatantly RUFUSED.
The fact that they walked away is not the problem. Its that I cant turn back because I chose this path. And I chose to win. Looking back stops progress. But you promised to be here.
But we wake up early and GRIND anyways. Yeah we've been shot. Yes we've been abandoned. Of course we hurt. But we continue LEADING WHILE BLEEDING.
I remember crying one night as I watched my children sleep. Feeling like a failure. Couldn't take them anywhere that day because I didn't have the money to even get a burger. While my mom was down stairs locked in a room on a cold winter night with the heaters broken. Living off food stamps. Child support on my back. Name ran into the dirt by my ex.
But me in my seed season. The dirt was exactly where I needed to be. My mentor Jarrod Wilkins always told me. "You're being planted not buried."
Look at the irony of that. Even though you may be at your lowest point in life. I hope this reaches you at the perfect timing. Please understand that "You are being planted and not buried."
It's not over! You have work to do! Pick yourself up with BOLDNESS AND SURITY.
If you don't like how it feels there in that state. GET UP! DUST OFF!! FIGHT BACK!!!
You must NOW have what I call the "bet it all on black" moment. Like in the movies when you're in Vegas, all odds are against you. You are down on your luck, but you have nothing to lose, and you bet it all on black. Because this is the point where it HAS to work.
There comes a time when you believe in yourself so much that you are willing to take everything you have even if you think its not enough and you do it anyways.
Yes there's a dark side to success as I've mentioned. But its only there to put it in the proper perspective. The light wouldn't be appreciated with out the darkness. Health wouldn't be appreciated without days of sickness. Success is sweet tasting and should be glamorized. After all you've fought through it would be a slap in the face to be seen as the people who have chosen to be mediocre. Its simple, not easy. If it were easy everyone would do it. If everyone did it there would be nothing special about it
In closing, Thanks once again. I know where you are, and see where you are going. Even though I don't know you personally. I still believe in you. Here is the picture of success.
GO WIN ANYWAYS!!!!
Sincerely,
Malcolm Brown
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