Quote: Originally posted by tibobdenazareth on December-18-2003
Ape_Man, you need to be very prudent. Honesty is a good thing when displayed it to the right people in the proper situation. Otherwise, you're positioning yourself for destruction.
Remember, every piece of truth -good or bad- you give to somebody is a weapon he/she can use to destroy you.
Your truth should be EARNED by the people you grow to trust. There was no point telling your life story here on HX. That's very immature. I just hope you learned the lesson and NEVER ventilate your truth left and right again just to be fair with people. The world is not about fairness. Life itself is unfair.
Tibob, I have a problem with this reply...I understand your points but you do speak in a way as being above the audiance you speak to...are you a teacher, you sound like one...
all this I needed the attention I dnt understand...I was asked something and I talked about it...big deal...do realize I am a 26 year old man who reflected back to a time when I was about 15 and that time ended when I was about 19...I gave you an insight of some events that occured during a 3 or 4 years span of my life...and those three or four years do not dictate my life...they dont even come close to telling you anything about me really...so dont see it as me posting my life story...alot of things happen in a span of a day, a month a year...just because I tell you I have been incarcerated does that mean I am a criminal, no...those guest are giving this attention that I didn't ask for, it's not me, it's them...they are haters and find something on me they think they can get under my skin about...problem is, like everything else in my life, I dont really have shame...life is learning and I grow from things I learn everyday...
what do I owe to these folks?...you think them ridiculing me can affect me? think you know some of my goals for this year, now someone stand in the way of that, then it's a different story, why should I get angry over things that happened a decade ago that someone chooses to be hung up on...lol...I know many Haitian youth around my way today that are trying to walk the same path that I have and I try to talk them out of it...those same kids listen to me because they use to look up to me...if I can tell them I have been there and am lucky to be out, then I know one of them will listen to my experiences and choose a different route...so my experiences are not a bad thing to me...a bad thing are those that we lost who are no longer with us, a bad thing is those that are in prison because they never got out those ways...a good thing to me is the fact that I am here and can help reach out to those that dont have noone to reach out to them...
Tibob, to be frank with you, I think you are the only person on this site that can actually post something that gets a reaction out of me...that's respect...though you post in a way that seems to always discredit me even when standing up for me, I do have a level of respect to the point I read what you say over to make sure I am not jumping the gun...I know you can see what I am saying so I wont stress it...but do understand, I wasn't looking for attention, it was brought on to me...and no matter where I got whether on or offline, I always get attention, so it's nothing big to me... |