I got accepted into my top choice for grad school and I'm finally moving!
I love and appreciate when someone loves me enough to challenge me.
I love that endings are also new beginnings- I'm happy that I'v matured enough to know that.
That's just great, in any economy. I don't even know you personally but I am happy for you.
You know, this is a good thread. It is more than necessary, it is essential to well being. What you personally put out into the atmosphere will come back. May be like a boomerang or may be like Haley's comet but it gets back to you...trust.
I really just want to shout out my dad. If there was a picture in the dictionary of what one should be like, he is it. From riding my first bike, to tying my first tie to coordinating my first suit, to coming to my away games in high school when I wasn't even starting, to coming to see me in college even when things were going right, to making sure I got well adjusted when I moved to the "A."
I don't know what just made me say all that but he is the reason I vibe well. He is the reason I have great friends. He is the reason women LOVE me. He taught me how to be a man, a gentleman, and a scholar. He is the reason I made it this far without dyin'.
I want to give a shout out to all the elementary, middle school, high school and college classmates that have shown me REAL love since meeting me day one. I try to give them nothing but that "good, good" back. I never knew when I would need to lean on them so I let them lean on me. It all works out in the end.
I want to thank all the members of this board when I first got here in '02. HNIC, Duke, kayanation, D Town Redd, members who slip my mind at the time, and all the mods. I have learned more about black history, African history, Jesus, God, Christianity, Islam, religion, and of course porn, than I ever would have learned in class or in a library or an an adult movie store. My knowledge base has grown exponentially.
I want to thank circumstance. Circumstances have forced me to really understand what hustle means. It is a never ending grind until you have reached a pre-determined goal or desire. So, therefore, I continue to grind. I don't know where this grind is going to take me but I know BGOL will be a part of it.
WHEW,

, I had no intention of writing all of that but I guess that is why this thread was created. Thanks, fam.