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To The Negative Role Model Who Has A Positive Impact

Thank you for showing me who not to be.

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To The Negative Role Model Who Has A Positive Impact
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To the Negative Role Model who has had a positive impact on me:

Thank You.

If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be the man that I am today.

Now, a lot of my upbringing has to do with my incredible Mother, but, when there are people like you who were in my life, it made it hard to follow what she has taught me to do.

But, that doesn't mean that you haven't taught me anything either.

Without you, I would not have learned that I do need to be in College in order to have a strict schedule around me.

Without you, I would have learned how to take control of the choices that I make and the consequences that come with them. I learned how to act like an actual man rather than whatever you call yourself.

Without you, I wouldn't have an image of something that I don't want to be.

Without you, my writing voice would not have grown the way that it has and my dedication to the craft would not have grown the way that it has.

Without you, I wouldn't have learned how to not act to people, I am grateful for everything that I have been given while you act like people don't stick their necks out for you and you treat them as such.

Without you, I wouldn't have learned common sense and what to do and what not to do as a grown man. I sometimes think that I'm ten years older than you, even though you are ten years older than me.

So, I guess, all I can say to you is, Thank you.

I don't want to be like you ever, and knowing who you are and the type of person you've become and what you've done to get to the depths where you are and how to not get there.

My drive has increased so much just by seeing all of the things that you have done, and I know that what you've done and how not to be the same person.

You have shown me so many things that I am thankful for. Don't get it twisted, though, everything you've shown me is the worst things that you can show to a young man.

You've shown me how not to treat others.

You've shown me how to not to act like an adult.

You've shown me what will happen to me if I don't keep going and pursue my goals.

You've shown me the exact type of person I don't want to be.

Without you, my insatiable drive would not exist, I would not want to reach the heights that I want to reach and I would not want to put the work in.

A lot of the pain I've had to go through is because of you and your immature actions without thinking what the consequences that come from it. You put yourself and your stupid ways above other people and their feelings and emotions.

I'll be happy once I get there and while you're still in your perpetual rut.

So, in closing, Thank You.

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