As I sit here and write this post on my mini vacation, I wonder is this the life? Since I was in junior highschool I dreamt of the day that I will finally have the money and lifestyle where I would be able to get out the hood and move on to so called better things and places.
More and more I realize that a little bit of me is afraid of leaving my hood. To me my hood is my culture my upbringing and with out it I will lose a part of me. People like my mother and my girlfriend always say please because they left their countries (Grenada & Panama) for a better life and if they were to think that way then they would be stuck there. So it is an official year since I been back home from graduation and I am a different person and have been exposed to so many things my peers haven&rsqo;t yet in their lives. Since I am always thinking I always dream of a nice home to finally call my own, no roaches, rats, overcrowding the whole nine, but most of the time that will equal giving up a persons culture, family and some friends.
So my question to everyone is if you had a chance to escape your home, hood and etc, where would you set up your life? You finally got that big paying job, but its in another state are you willing to leave close friends behind? If so where and how far are you willing to go?
