I'm not going to say that my story is better then anyone else story but my story is still my story. If I am making the time to write about my life then to me my story is worth telling. I can honesty say that I have came along way to be who I am today and is very proud to have turn out this way. I would never thought that I would ever be like this meaning people from the street, would call me a "square" but I am so proud to be a square because I'll never have to look over my shoulder anymore. Square is a street term for being a goody good or sometime boring person but I am find with that because people that are from the street or ghetto that call me that, don't really bother me.
I have turn my lifestyle upside down and have become a square that I am very proud off because if anybody that have seen all the thing I have been through would never think that off me. Ever since I have moved to Washington state my goal was to not let anyone know about my past or how I use to be. I came out here to start a new life and to make a new me.
I will not go into to much detail about how I use to be but all I can say is that I am not the same person that I use to be as a teenager but I don't think anyone of us really want to stay the same way forever. I knew that my lifestyle back then was not getting me anywhere and it was all bad. The street life was not the life I wanted for myself and being ghetto was not what I want people to think of me.
People from the street would probably call me white wash now but like I say I don't really care what they think because street credit, I've learned is not a credit you would want as an adult. Ghetto talk and ignorant point of view on life was how we see things from the ghetto point of view. Most of us can't control our emotion and will act out in violent because that is the only way we know. I know now that it is not the best way to solve anything.
I am grown, married and we have three kids together. I am now trying to give my kids all the opportunity that is out there and to teach them that they can be anything they want to be. I can tell you that I would never think that this is possible for people like me but I know now that anything is possible because it is truly up to us and us alone to make it but you have to understand what it take to get there.
I have learned in order to make it anywhere in life you have to first understand where you are living and know your environment. Just like Tarzan the boy that was raise in the jungle by animal and became king of the jungle. Learn the enviorment and then adapt to it. I am from Laos but now live in America and so to become successful in America then I have to be American.
The best thing about being in America is that you really never have to give up anything from your past if you don't want too because here you have all the freedom you need and that is why so many come here for that American dream. Crazy that you have people from around the world that dream of moving to America and that is all they really want. I am grateful everyday that I am here. I didn't understand it at first but now I know everything I need to know to make it here. Be American and understand the American value then the American dream is out there for the taking and this is real talk....
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