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You live & you learn


Don’t hate yourself today for what you didn’t do yesterday,

Don’t blame yourself for the bad that happen to you at a young age , 

Don’t talk down on you , 

Don’t talk bad about yourself, 

Stand up for yourself ,

Don’t try & save everybody only those who choose to be save , 

Don’t take extra risks for nobody that wouldn’t give you the clothes off their back if you needed it , 

Don’t give out more than you received,

Always match Energy , 

Always stand on what you say your word is your bond , 

Don’t worry about what the world may have to say about you , 

Don’t worry about what the next man doing , 

Don’t watch another man pocket , 

Never put your hands on nobody if you don’t want hands on you , 

Don’t blame everybody for your actions,

Take responsibility, 

Take ownership,

Take action ,

Make a change , 

Everyday a new day ,

Everyday you can start over , 

Everyday is a start of new beginnings, 

Everyday you can take a step , 

Nobody said it’s going to be easy , 

Nobody said chasing your dreams is easy , 

Nobody said begin at the top & begin on top is easy , 

Nobody said life is prefect, 

Nobody said you going to no problems in life , 

Nobody told you this, 

You have learn this , 

Because you are living & learning , 

Don’t nobody wake up in the position that they are in today over night , 

It took them sometime , 

It took hard work ,

It took dedication, 

It took strong mined will power , 

It took patients.

It took practice,

Soon you will be where you wanna be , 

Soon the light will shine again , 

Soon you will be on top , 

Soon you will be living a better life , 

Soon you will reach all your goals , 

But In due time it will happen , 

See life have a way of hitting us ,& it’s either it makes you or you let it break you , 

I never knew what that truly mean until I started growing up ,

Learning from my mistakes ,

See life is full of life lessons, 

Everyday you learn a new lesson, 

Only if you paying attention you can catch it , 

You live & learn , 

You learn from your mistakes, 

You learn from your past , 

You learn from people around you ,

You learn from school , 

You always learning something new , 

New skills ,

New ideas , 

New goals ,

As you plan you are learning your way around to do it on your own & to master it , 

As you age you began to see things differently, 

You began to see what really matters ,

You began to get focus on what’s important, 

What truly matters is you give this world all you got ,

You live & you learn 

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