When you were a child you were expected to bring home good grades, and if you didn’t there were consequences right? Were you ever asked why you’re struggling with your grades? Were you offered help? Did your parents talk to your teacher to see if she can do more? Or did you just receive your punishment while continuing to make poor grades? This is the case for many African American children, parents making their children sit at the table for hours staring into a paper they need help with, and then wonder why their grades are poor. Here’s what you can do to break this cycle;
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It’s 4:14am and I’m up thinking about the life I want to give you. In the short time we’ve spent together you have opened up my eyes to soo much. You have shown me that life is bigger than going to work and coming home, it’s about LIVING your BEST life. Before you I didn’t care about living my best life, school, work, and Home was satisfying. But each and every day I look at you I learn a little more about living my best life, and what that TRULY means.
Well!! Let me tell you son. Providing a happy life for you, showing you the world beyond America, investing in your future, creating opportunity for you, providing a worry free life for you, giving you all the things I didn’t have growing up, being your biggest advocate, and letting you make mistakes but also allowing you to learn from them. You truly give me a new meaning of this thing called LIFE. We were not created to work and die, we are here for a purpose, and you my son have shown that purpose. In the early hours on 10-07-2015 I received a random phone call from my brother at 1:16am, which was not normal. I remember him being upset about something that had happened at work and just calling to vent. Mid conversation the call dropped, but I didn’t call back because I assumed he was soo upset that he was done talking. After the call ended I walked to my dorm room and went to bed.
Later that morning I got up and headed to my 8am English class like normal. I sat in class and scrolled through twitter as I waited for class to start, then something caught my attention. My cousin tweeted “Please pray for my family” and mentioned my brothers page in the tweet. So I immediately called my dad to see what was going on, only to find out my brother had been killed in a tragic car accident. My entire world went completely dark, I felt like my heart had been broken into a billion pieces . Storming out of class hollering and crying, I made my way back to my dorm room. During this time I was a Sophomore in college, and did not think I would finish school, and my grades would start to slip. Once I returned to school I became very weak, quiet, and secluded from the outside world. I was not ready to except the fact that I had loss someone very near and dear to my heart. Knowing that I had 3 months of that semester left and the entire spring semester left, for weeks I grew careless and started missing class. I couldn’t sleep at night, and did not want to sleep alone, soo for months I had friends and residents sleep over at my dorm, because I was terrified to close my eyes. This went on for 7 months, until I decided it was best I live off campus. So I moved and slowly started returning to my normal self. I ended up finishing my sophomore year with a 3.5 GPA, and returned for my junior year. On May 4th I graduated from Northern Kentucky University with my bachelors degree with a 3.1 GPA. After loosing my brother I did not think I’d ever see that day, everyday for 7 months all I could think about was wanting to be with him, nothing else mattered. I share this with you, because I want you to know that if god brings you to it he will bring you through it. Life throws all kinds of things at us during the worst possible times, you will feel broken and weak during these times, but I want you to know that you can pick up the pieces and keep going. Never let life’s disturbances allow you to lose sight of something you’ve worked hard for. Yes I lost someone I was very close to, but he was my motivation to grind even harder, and that’s what I did. I know that my brother is proud, and I know that one day we will see each other again. Are you at a point in your life, where you feel like you’re not doing enough, or it’s taking you longer to reach your goals?
Well that would be me, I’m constantly reminding myself that I’m only 22, and I have time to get a great paying career and to buy a beautiful home with my future husband. Social media has made my generation rush into things they’re not ready for, buy featuring young people bringing in big money, and buying their dream homes with what seems like the perfect man or woman. That is a fairytale, and what god has for you it is for you. Stop letting that couple on YouTube that you watch everyday have you thinking you need to do more, no you don’t, you’re doing just fine. Stop letting that person that’s always traveling have you thinking that you’re doing something wrong, you aren’t your time is coming. Stop letting those who you went to school with that have graduated or are working towards their degree have you talking down on yourself, school is not for everyone and maybe that’s not your calling “God has something else in store for you.” All in all stop beating yourself because you see somebody else doing something you think you should be doing, we are young and everything we’re working for is to come. BE PATIENT Have you ever sat and thought about how much money some of your favorite artists, singer/song writers, actors/actresses, professional fighters, and athletes make from your support?
Were you aware that they make a good chunk of their money from your support? Have you ever gotten anything in appreciation from these million dollar individuals? Do you support local, and small businesses like you support these people who 1. You don’t know. 2. You’re likely to never meet. 3. Spend their money on things like an eight million dollar watch (Mayweather). If you answered yes to the first three questions and no to the last one, this is specifically for your eyes. Now that I have your attention, think about everything you’ve read up until this point. You’re probably thinking “Man she hit this right on the nose.” Society is set up for the rich to stay rich and the poor to stay poor. All of the professional sports teams you have bought tickets to go and support do not make you any money, they take your money and keep taking it. All of the Beyoncé, Chris Brown, etc. concert tickets you spent your bill money on, multiple times, to sit in a seat that provides a terrible view, DON’T make you any money. I think by now you see where I’m going with this. We spend to much time, and energy making sure the rich stay rich, meanwhile we’re out here living paycheck to paycheck. Stop giving these people your money, and start supporting your local business owners, your friend who’s started a YouTube channel, the woman on Facebook selling jewelry, and small businesses. Your money will be soo much more appreciated if you do these things. I really hope that after reading this you will take this advice with you. |
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