ANSWER: THE GOLDEN NUGGET, KIDS

The powers that be are the most influential people on the planet at any given time. THE ONES WITH THE MONEY, IDEAS, EDUCATION and TALENT and combinations thereof are truly the people in power. ]] **nvm who signs their paychecks or if they get one at all**

btw your skills are basically worthless unless you do something good with them.

It is a choice to rise up and actualize your true potential once you’ve realized it.

I’ve been sucking on gingerbread mans in bed thinking about this at night in relation to Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” and my attempts in the Houston poetry scene (specifically at Avant Garden).

That’s when I got this symbolic metaphor of an exclamation point. There was this poster hanging in my therapist’s old waiting room and the last one said, “Live your Life as an EXCLAMATION, not an EXPLANATION.” I’ve referenced it here before.

So explaining things to yourself or to others buries you. You’re literally killing yourself. But maybe you really need to...for a time. That’s the humility. Go home. You’re drunk. Spent.

So you’ve cried it all out and made your amends and spent some time with yourself. Now what?

Don’t hurt yourself, kid.

Get that dirt off your shoulders.

You follow?

You are the point on the bottom (all inside your own sphere)...

Until you stand up and the dirt falls off !

But you still need to go take a shower and wash your damn clothes.

Maybe you’re never washing that shirt again. Up to you. You feelin’ lucky, punk?!  But put some clean ones on after you’re finished walking around naked in your living room. I hear that comes highly recommended. ;)