I said, I'm gonna go Division one.

I'm gonna go to college and I'm gonna go to the league.

And he's like, You probably go to cellblock, Do you want?

And I was like, Man, you're making a mistake.

Like I've never met you a day in my life.

I got an uncle in jail, right on, uncle in prison, right?

And I was like, Yeah, he's like apple on far too far from the tree, right?

And what he was saying to me, Waas you're probably repeat the same pattern that they repeated.

You come from the same household, right?

And I could have looked at it and made an excuse and said, I'm a lower my standards to meet and accommodate my household.

My experience, my situation, my circumstance, Or I could take my situation in my circumstance and raise my standard and say I'm going to be an example.

I'm going to triumph and I'm gonna use my situation in my circumstances, my driving force in my my fuel.

If I do this well, I can get my family in a better situation.

If I do this.

Well, I could get my mother off the double shift that Wendy's.

If I do this, well, I could get my own bed if I do this.

Well, I could get my grandmother a better living conditions If I do this.

Well, maybe I could stop my uncle's.

I'm selling drugs.

This is my purpose.

This is what I've been put here to do.

And so the opposition adversity challenges is just a part of the process is gonna make me a better person.

But my purpose I can't let anything stop or detour me from tapping into that every single day.

Because for most people, when you go through something, persons natural perspective is okay.

What did I lose, right?

What happened to you?

Like I took a loss, right?

People never look at it and say, Okay, man, tell me, what did you gain right?

Even though I know it hurt.

You didn't wanna go through it.

But look at it in a way to where you could say, what's the lesson in this, right?

What would you say?

Life is trying to teach you from dealing with this, right?

Because I'm coming from this household.

So I sleep on the floor, right with Roaches with rats.

I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Right.

And I would go to school and I will compete.

I would work.

And so when I met a kid that I was competing against, the only thing I felt I had the advantage in my whole life was my work, I think.

And I took pride in that right.

I was never the biggest, the fastest, strongest never had.

The most resource is.

But I had a work, I think, and so my whole life, I want it different for my family ever since I was a kid, right?

And so never allowing the situation or circumstance to define your life and understanding that you've got something inside of you that's great in that situation in a circumstance.

But you have to constantly believe it, and not only believe it, you have to make decisions and choices every single day to put you a step forward toward what you believe your destiny is.

And so when I went through it, my perspective waas Okay, what can I extract from it To apply to other areas and aspects of my life that I feel can help other people.

And I firmly believe the quicker you can shift your perspective from yourself, toe others.

When you're in the midst of adversity, the quicker you'll get through it right.

Martin Luther King has a quote that says Life's most persistent on urgent question is, what are you doing to help other people?