TIME

The wealth that people use so poorly

The most I’ll spending on ANYONE is my time. Money comes and goes so if I spend time with you, that means you must be important in my life because that time I spent with you I’ll never get it back. This is what makes a relationship with someone precious, yet we take it for granted. When I look at celebrities or especially the “Black Bourgeoisie” and their “philanthropic” efforts I feel pity on the people that’s receiving the “help”. They get gifts and/or money thrown at them, a little camera time with someone famous not for their benefit but for publicity purposes only. I look at what we today see as philanthropy as similar to a horny man at a strip club. You give money away to someone less fortunate to fulfill some sort of internal pleasure. A couple days ago I read an article on Chris Brown and his recent “Blood Gang” affiliation. WHY? His reason for his affiliation is due to him hiring a few Bloods as his security guards and he provided some of the neighborhood youth with some new sneakers and blah blah blah. What pisses me off about this is that why do you have the desire to be affiliation with a gang? For what they call “street cred”? The streets can give two shakes of a fat rat’s ass about you unless you financially feed them. If you really care about “giving back to the community” then instead of dropping gifts off, how about going back to that community and building real relationships with the people in that community. It could be in the form of mentoring, and not the typical go into a classroom with a prepared speech, but I’m talking about actually building a relationship with someone to the point where you see great potential in them and it makes you want to take them up under your wing and contribute to developing that potential into some great. You know what you’re doing there? You’re investing your time instead of spending it. I wonder what my life would be like if I invested my time more than I spend it? When you invest your time, the return on it is guaranteed to be great. Your return could be whether in the form of a lesson, appreciation, or even in a great financial result. But what type of return do you get if you just spend time? I can almost guarantee that is perishable/temporary. See this is a reason why we as black people never tend to think long-term. We worry more than we think.

Time = Work (not money)

“Everyone wants to be famous, but don’t want to put the WORK in….” — Kevin Hart