Learning to take life seriously has been an interesting journey for me. My life started out basically as a vacation. I began traveling the United States in the back seat of my moms Buick at the age of four. From surfing the bright windy beaches of southern California, to panning for gold in the quiet unpopulated backwoods streams of New Hampshire, along with hundreds of popular tourist attractions, there are very few places that I …showed first 75 words of 1220 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1220 total…who blamed everyone and everything for their downfall, but never worked for anything in life but the moment, these men were hustlers, drug dealers, thieves, and murders. These were my comrades, this is what I had been working towards, never in my life had I looked at life with any meaning, but it took this to happen to make me realize that I want a future, and the seriousness of my life starts with me...