A former drug dealer from the 1980s explains how he escaped that life by deciding to become better and imagining a future where he actually survived. He tells people stuck in dark circumstances to ask themselves one question: what if I do make it?
to those who are in dark spaces, those who are struggling, those who are like, that, that sounds good. But it's like, you have to decide, right? Are you going to be better than you are in the near future, right? You have to visualize your future self. Visualize. I know I struggled with that because I didn't think I was going to live for a long period of time, right? Coming up, you know, I started selling dope and in '86, right? '87. So yeah, that's when those hit. Straight through the mid-'90s. Wow. So I didn't think I was gonna live, right? Because I didn't— a lot of my partners around me wasn't living or going to jail. So a future self, if you talk to me about my future, you talking about 5 years. I'm talking about what's up in the next 5 minutes. So I have to challenge those who may feel that same way. You might be right, you might not make it, but what if you do? What if you do?
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
