Love You

Learn to be comfortable with yourself.  The more comfortable you're with the person you see in the mirror the more of an asset you become to someone else.  The most attractive thing in the world is a woman that I need more than she needs me.   A woman's confidence and how she carries herself is important.  I know that sounds mad generic but through someone's actions its easy to sense their insecurities.  Think about how many times a day you hear somebody say they want a boo, or they need somebody new in their life, but as a individual they're a complete mess.  Build yourself before you look for validation from someone else, as an individual you have to want and expect more from the person in the mirror. We live in a society where people feel validated by relationships, the sense of false confidence that you feel from someone else isn't exactly healthy.  To keep it 100 you can't depend on something that may not always be there for you.  Although you can't enter a relationship thinking that person won't always be there for you, you have to come to the realization that ultimately you come first, if that person doesn't satisfy criteria for you to grow, you simply don't need them.  Nobody on this earth will be there for you, the way you have to be there for yourself; no matter what happens in life you will always be you, therefore you must always have your own back.  As growing individuals we tend to focus more so on the criteria and standards that we hold for the people we get involved with instead of holding ourselves to those standards.  You have to fix you before you can work on fixing someone else, and once you're confident in what're your growth.  I know I emphasized the hell out of the word you in in this post but that's who this post is for.   

Currently Jamming:  4 minutes of Hell x Lil Herb

Late Night Rambling

At some point in time things just start feeling right. You can't predict it, you can't plan for it, you can only work and hope that the moves you're making correlate to a higher purpose.  I've always found myself stressing, in retrospect that's how I work best.  If there's no pressure on me I'm least likely to perform, and that's why I hate comfort.  At 21 I know I haven't really accomplished shit.  I'm two semesters from graduating a prestigious school, I have a couple nice internships and a decent resume but, to get where I want to be Im having to fully understand I've accomplished nothing. My biggest motivator is realizing and reminding myself I'm not shit, because some time in the near future that won't be true. Although I'm not the most religious person, I believe in a higher power, and I believe that the higher power I believe in has me on the right path.  To simplify it I believe in the process.  By process and to quote Talib Kweli I'm living the "beautiful struggle".  The struggle is some of you're purest days because struggling drags that feeling of hunger out of you. Nobody likes to struggle but in order to shine you gotta grind, in order to eat you gotta work.  You just don't wake up and eat steak and lobster, you gotta eat Top Ramen first and chicken flavored to be exact.  I really plan on having a hand in changing multiple aspects of the career's that I want to pursuit.  I've never been the person who liked sitting on any bench, I want to get in games, I want to make All-Star teams, I want to hoist that MVP award.  My Grandpa told me when I was young, "whatever you do in life be the best at it," I take that to heart because I hate the shit out of losing.  .  I will say this at this point in my life the picture's getting clearer.  We all move at a different pace, but most of us strive for the finer things, the difference is we're not all willing to put in the work to obtain those things.  If I'm able to obtain my goals and stay true to who I am, that paints a picture for the future.  Dawg I gotta get it.

Currently Jammin:   In the Mornin' x UGK

True Beauty of a Woman

Beauty is truly within the eye of the beholder, and honestly that beholder is you.  We live in a society where people have tried to define beauty and tell us what beautiful looks like, when in actuality there's no standard of beauty and there are no limitations on what can be perceived as beautiful.  The whole idea that man can define beauty is impossible, and this is simply because beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and looks.  Every woman on this earth has been born with the tools to be beautiful on the inside and out, the person she sees when she first wakes up and looks in the mirror is love.  Kendrick Lamar echoes this in "Poetic Justice" when he spits the line "I mean you need to hear this, love is not just a verb its you looking in the mirror." Women must understand everything about them from their complexion, to their hair, to whatever God has blessed them with that makes up their differences as an individual is true beauty.  True beauty is not what you see on the cover of the magazine or on your TV screen, true beauty is the image that appears when you wake up in the morning and you understand that no matter what you're the most beautiful piece of art crafted on this earth. The confidence a woman has in herself is what makes her sexy, its not arrogant and it can't be measured by anybody else other than you.  I must admit the sexiest thing in the world is a woman that not only embraces her outer beauty, but one who's inner beauty radiates on the outside.  Any secure man could tell you how much we appreciate a woman who is confident in the tools she's been blessed with, because that confidence should never wane no matter the circumstance.  As we must do a better job at empowering our women, just make sure that first and foremost you empower yourself.

Currently Jamming Dirty Projectors- Stillness is the Move