So a while ago, I got an email from somebody asking me about my blog and some of the things that I write, here it is...

“So I was reading some of your blog's posts, and I just had two questions. What exactly is it that you want from life? And, what do you mean by you, "dream big"?”

I was shocked to get this email. I guess I just wasn’t expecting someone to email me about my blog. Then I started to think. This person is destined for greatness! They want greatness in their life, and are seeking out other people that want to achieve greatness as well. It makes perfect sense. Well, I went on to reply, saying…

Question 1; What exactly is it that you want from life?
I just want to be able to achieve all things that I never saw myself being able to do. This may be to overcome my own self doubt as well as the doubt that others have in me. Like growing up, the only thing I saw in my future was basketball. Basketball was that one thing that I was good at, and the reason why I interested people…but I want more than just that. Growing and wanting to reach my full potential, I now want to write a book, I want to give back in every way, shape and form, I want to help my family and friends, and most importantly I want to help youth realize that they can do anything if you set your mind to it.

Question 2: What do you mean by you "dream big"?
Dream big means DREAM BIG!! Like sometimes we dream, and we start to take things out of that dream. Why not leave everything in the dream and see how far you can go. I feel like the biggest obstacle to overcome is in our head (our own doubt), and after we get over that, nothing can stop us.

The person then went and replied to me saying…
Yeah, apparently we are bound by speech, you know, as in we say "I can't do this...I can't do that..." So, if you believe you can't do this or that then you can't because that's what you set your limits to. There wasn't really a reason besides pure curiosity. I just like learning what drives determined people.

Why aren’t more people curious these days? When we see people where we want to be…why don’t we ask them how they go there? Doesn’t it make sense?

What are you doing to get to where you want to be?

One Love.

Power Of Happiness

I truly believe that there is a great power in happiness in this world. Happiness can bring you joy in this world that no one can even come close to stealing from you. Happiness is something that every person in this universe should be able to experience, because you find happiness from within…

When you truly think about happiness…there is no doubt about it that you have to think about freedom. Freedom of your mind… thoughts… expression… actions.

‘Loose as a goose…free as can be..’

To my basketball teammates…you have heard this before. It wasn’t until as of recent I truly understood the meaning of this

When I was a youngster, I made a lot of decisions based on my friends, family, what people thought was cool.

Now as I grow older and wiser, I understand that all decisions should be made to better this universe and to keep happiness and freedom within one’s self. If I lay my head down at night unhappy, I have no one else to blame but myself.

As you travel through this beautiful life, seek freedom! Be happy…

“Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make” -Ruslan Karablin

One Love.

Life is beautiful…

To be honest I don’t even know where to start, I might be venting right now, so bare with me…

I feel like for the past week or so, I have not been giving life my all! Like I just been going through the motions. I think it’s very easy for us as humans to get caught up in routines and not actually pay attention to what we are doing. A lot of this is directed to my school work. I have finished the social work program at my school and now I’m trying to finish up some gen. eds in this last year and I’m not even going to lie, they suck! Lol. I’m taking classes that I have no interest in at all.. O well, that’s just how it goes sometimes. Balancing school and a full time job is a lot different from balancing school and basketball.. I think that has been my biggest adjustment this year…it’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. When I was playing basketball, it was easier for me to find time to study and get my work done because I could study during travel time… I can’t study at my job!!

So let me tell you about my job anyway.. I freakn’ love it!! I work at a company called Faith, Hope and Charity. It’s a home for kids with special needs. If you know me, you know I love working with kids… But I have never seen myself working with this population. I swear everyday these kids keep me sane… They live life and enjoy it to the fullest! They don’t have a care in the world…all they want to do is be happy. I swear that’s a great outlook on life!! Since I started working this job, these kids have made me learn so much about myself..I only been there for about 3 weeks now and they have already impacted me for a lifetime.

The point that I am trying to get out to you are, don’t go through the motions…but live life as if every moment may be your last moment.

And when it’s time for you to start your career, do something that you love. It will make the universe a better place!

Peace & Love to all the warriors out there!

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Change your Cool!!

Nas breaks down his open letter. This is a must watch...God's Son Nas speaks knowledge!

Nas Speaks Again!!

*UPDATE*
Your fight should to be about becoming bigger and better. To have your own businesses. Real businesses Not Hustles. To have careers not jobs. Not selling mixtapes. You have the resources to do anything you want. There's no excuses. We have no one to blame but ourselves.. We have so much great work to do!!!

-Nas




Just to make you scratch your scalp a lil more... check out what someone has to say about Nas speaking out

NAS I FEEL U I UNDERSTAND AND AGREE WITH EVERYTHING U SAYING. BUT WHEN RAPPERS GET ON TV AND TALK ABOUT THE STRUGGLES IN THE HOOD THATS ALL THEY DO. HONESTLY THAT SCRIPT IS PLAYED OUT. DONT MISINTERPRET THIS AS ME SAYN UR DOING SOMETHING WRONG BY SPEAKING OUT TO THE YOUTH, IM JUST SAYING TAKE THE NEXT STEP. IM A "YOUNG WARRIOR". AND IM FROM CHICAGO, CABRINI GREEN PROJECTS TO BE EXACT. MY FATHER JUST GOT SIXTY YEARS FOR 1ST DEGREE MURDER. BUT ME IM IN COLLEGE, IN MY FIRST YEAR AT SIU. IVE BEEN THREW THE STRUGGLE. IVE DID SOME THINGS IN MY LIFE THAT IM NOT PROUD OF BUT NOW IM TRYING TO BETTER MYSELF. IM NOT GOING INTO THIS WAR BLIND EITHER. I HAVE A VISION I JUST NEED AN ARM TO HELP PULL ME OUT THE STRUGGLE. IF U TRULY FEEL LIKE U SAY U DO THEN REACH NAS!!!! HELP A YOUNG WARRIOR BECOME A GENERAL. WELL SEE HOW MUCH U REALLY CARE ABOUT US!!!!!!!! P.S. LOVE

Be Full-Time!

Hello Beautiful People!! I hope all is doing welll…

So as most of you know…during the past summer I was working at a camp in NY. During the summer I kept a journal.. this would help me keep all of the great memories close to my heart. Well, here is what I wrote July 12th, 2009.

So a couple of days ago I got to spend the night with my boys, the senior boys here at camp. This would be the first group of kids I had my first summer here at camp in 2008. I was setting in the tent with them one night just talking about life. One of my boys has always called me father, he even did so last summer. I always noticed it but never thought about it too deeply. This night he told me the reason that he calls me “father”. He says, “Dre, I call you father because I don’t have a positive father figure to look up to!” He went on and continued to tell me about the situations that he has to see and deal with on a daily basis. We were in this dark tent at night so he had no idea about the tears that were just rolling down my face. Everything that he was saying touched me so deeply.

I try my best to appreciate all that God and the universe has blessed me with in my life; but sometimes it takes stories like his to put life into perspective.

I had no idea that he was looking at me in such a way that he did, nor did I know his story to the full extent that he explained.

Being a Man of Character forces me to be the best man that I can be when others are not looking, watching or paying any attention. That’s what character is all about. If you are living a LIFEstyle of what you want your character to be seen as…no matter who is watching, when they see you, or what they hear.. it will always have something positive in it, because you are being the best YOU!.

Knowing that you are being watched at all times… are you proud of what others see in you?

“There are eyes and ears everywhere; and if not, the universe see’s you… we have to manifest into full-time”