“Relax Boldly”

I even witnessed a fistfight on my way out of Brooklyn. Like I said, hard knock life. School of hard knocks. It happened right in front of me at a red light as I was coming out of Coney Island. The police let off their sirens from across the block to tell them or signal to them to knock it off. It was funny, but startling at the same time. But it’s nothing when you’ve been in your own fair share of fist fights like I have. But as scripture says, with hardship comes ease. Immediately after coming out of that scene, I end up here. The line between war and the school of hard knocks on one hand and comfort and luxury on the other hand immediately blurs and fades here in New York. And that’s the core divide in our modern world, isn’t it? War and the school of hard knocks on one hand, poverty and hardship, and comfort and luxury on the other hand. I know nothing but the school of hard knocks and war. My entire biography is shaped by war and the school of hard knocks. For me, it is still uncertain as to how I would feel about a life of comfort and luxury. I’m still at a point where between comfort and luxury on one hand and war and the school of hard knocks on the other hand, I probably wouldn’t know which one to choose. I don’t know any better at this point. But of course, and eventually, you’re forced to adapt and adjust. Plus, that’s what the women in your life will ultimately want.

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