Tuesday, August 5, 2008

NATE'S KNOWLEDGE

What is true happiness? What is your passion or the thing that drives you? Do you believe that your life will change once you get that carrot at the end of the stick? Would you believe that there are multi millionaires who feel they are poor? I mean worth three mill and up but because they are not worth hundreds feel like they are just OK. I know that money in today's time is relative and that you are only a bad investment away from the poor house but to look at your account see six digits behind any number and i think your OK. You mad cause you cant have a private jet when Its kids that cant have a meal tonite. Put some shit in perspective people. What is the difference between greed and drive? Its a fine line. I don't mind you saying i want to be wealthy enough to make sure my great great great great grand sister will never have to work but to be pissed that you cant have a home on each continent and and afford a fleet of the finest luxury automobiles is insane. I just watched a a woman who was unhappy because her ten million wouldn't buy her a butler and a penthouse in Manhattan. And people wonder why the world looks at America like spoiled assholes with no sense of culture and reality. Its the selfishness of our culture. Its the superfluous nature that PF3 and Sheree talked about in "Overdose". I try to be the man that lives unselfishly. We complain about so many frivolous things never being thankful for what we have. Every day is thanksgiving and we don't need to forget that. Kinda makes me think about this whole system of capitalism. I love America, but Dave Chappelle said something so true. This is the greatest country by default. We could be so much more powerful we could really change the world yet we still have homeless people and billionaires. We have hundreds of food companies throwing away imperfect products with people die of malnutrition and starvation everyday. So what drives you? Greed? Is your passion in anyway going to help someone other than you. Do you even care that systemic racism impairs another generation that will be labeled as learning disabled or delinquent? Do you even think about what classism does to the structure of our educational system? Of course you don't cause you want to hear Rickety Ross studio personality drop the next hot one instead of make a difference in this world.

4 comments:

Austin August 5, 2008 at 9:24 AM  

Thanks Nate...there's nothing like getting a whooping in the morning right before you go to school, just to make sure you don't act up today! Being wealthy, or rich is kind of like living in a false or fake world...you think you have no problems, until you're diagnosed with a terminal disease...money only cures problems in the natural world...we all know who the true source of happiness is...and if you dont have HIM, you will always continue to search for more and never truly be happy...

Unknown August 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM  

man.. That is so real. I think thats why black folk can be so happy poor. not content but still can maintain without killing themselves. well let me clarify that as weel, cause we kill ourselves slowly with drugs and alcohol like civilized people, and each other for the sake of pride and a false sense of loyalty

SAUCE August 5, 2008 at 2:19 PM  

and fried chicken "aint that some shit im going to eat some shit till what im eatin kills me....why?....cause thats just what niggas doo."