
Somehow, though friends all throughout life preached the gospel of happily “playing” these women, I didn’t get it. “Be a player, bro,” they’d say. Right… if I stick to playing Video Games, they won’t eventually need Child Support checks.

As we grew, we definitely grew in our own directions. Soon after our father’s passing, younger Sibling moved to Grandma’s, which was unfortunately located right next to a Rocketdyne plant… in a gang neighborhood. David Hojak’s sibling was outright more prepared to dress like her local, surrounding Hispanic friends…

During my youth, realizations that my life was more complicated than that of others came quickly. It wasn’t long before I realized that my own parents stayed up way too late…

Endurance of the elements will teach you a lot about your own fortitude. Lessons about your biological physicality, paired up with with realizations about limitations of your psychology, become painfully, yet so quickly obvious. Nothing will break both points to you as brutally as suddenly being thrust into sub-zero degree…

There came a point in life where I was at my absolute lowest, thus far… to start, an ex-girlfriend was covering rent for me in a roommate situation that she’d found for me. She’d also helped me leave Baja (Mexico), where I stayed with someone who proved themselves dishonest. Nonetheless…