be the reason someone in your community dreams a little bigger

you’re scared to post or share your story— whole time someone from ya neighborhood needs to see your lifestyle and success so they can dream bigger so they can break cultural norms and generational curses 😤😤 #fyp #foryoupage #advice #makeitoutthehood #motivation I think survival's guilt shows up in a lot of different ways. I'm gonna be real. For me, I feel it terribly when I come back home. Um, I mean, the way I'm living right now is not how I was living five years ago. I was scared with my grandma. I shared my room with like my grandma, she had it with my aunt, like, this was before I even had a sister. So yeah, grew up with a single mom. She remarried a lot of things have changed in my life. And I remember, I think between high school and, um, maybe end of middle school, but mainly high school, I had to break a lot of rules. I was talking to someone I love about this. I had to break a lot of rules and not the rules that you would think. There are people who broke the rules as they didn't show up to class in high school or the teacher would talk and they would be on their phone the entire time or they would fight with the teacher. Or they would go get into gangs. Like things like that. There were like hidden rules that people would break. For me, I had to break the rules of culture. I used to think I was so weird and so alone because no one could really get it. Like everyone in my age was having sex, I wasn't even, like, there was only one guy I would talk to for most of high school. And he was crazy. He was older than me, like he'd been talking to me since I was in middle school. It was wrong, right? But I still wasn't doing what most people my age were doing. And I used to think I was so weird and so wrong. But now, I'm about to graduate college and most of the people from my middle school, high school or just community aren't gonna graduate with me. Most of them dropped out, I heard. And I cried. Like, it's not a flex. Like I want all of us to graduate. I want all of us to get jobs and, you know, financial freedom and financial stability and mental health as well. I want that for everyone who grew up with, but that's not the case. And I used to want to hide and not post about it. But the thing is, when I do post about it, and I post advice and I post my journey, you never know who's watching. You never know. Someone from your community needs to see you doing your big one so they can get out of bed. So they can leave that relationship so they can go to school. So they can see you do it. They don't want to see another white person doing it. They need to see you. From your community, from your hometown doing your big one. Okay?