When You're Building A Life

 You have to know how to roll with the punches. With corporate property management hiding fees until you read a lease agreement, with "ghost job" postings, managers who don't show up when you go to a scheduled interview, property managers who don't show up to a scheduled viewing, homeless shelters, going to the wrong campus, and so on and so forth. You have to keep going. When you hit a brick wall you climb. When you hit another one you jump, amd claw, and scratch. You have to grind. But to have the motivation to grind you need to know why you're doing it. Its been hard down here in the city. But I have purpose here. I'm so grateful to be away from Idaho. The gossip, the shit talking, the two faced hypocrisy. I feel as though I escaped a dead end existence and purpose has been infused into my life. I can't even understand why I wanted to drink so much. Well... maybe I do. My life was going nowhere. So through it all? I'm thrilled to be independent again. I always was in the past. 

And it's HOOPFEST BOOOIIIII

-Joe 🦋 

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