Feels like yesterday I was 10 with no worries man. Getting to 20 is bittersweet for me. Recently lost an old friend to gun violence, he was 19. Neighbors car got firebombed the other night. I saw a man dead at 11 on my old block. I've seen overdoses. Any of them could've been me.

I made an agreement with myself years ago that if I wasn't successful by 25 that I would kill myself man. I have no idea how I got out of that situation and where I'm at now. Life has felt like an alternate reality for the last two and a half years. I don't even know what to say.