So I'm riding on the bus today (yeah public transportation. I didn't know so many people rode the bus in Chicago like its nothing. In Atlanta, people who ride the bus are normally ghetto folks. For some reason, you just will not fix your mouth to tell someone you rode the bus there. Stuntin ass city...) and I'm in Chicago....so you know the weather is not pretty.  It's rainy and cloudy and all that jazz. So I'm riding and looking down State Street like, "MAN it's foggy outside. Look like something straight outta movie....like Constantine or some sh*t. It literally looks like Godzilla is going to come out from around dem buildings and step on this bus." I then looked around the bus to see who I'd knock down first or use as a shield. In the middle of my innocent bystander search, I looked up and saw something that looked like a flashing light out of a window.  Thinking, "what the f&#! is that..." I started looking up...and up....and up...and WHAM there it is....THE FIRE! Then as my eyes began to focus, I saw countless fire trucks and police cars. Why I didn't see those in the first place is the same reason I was always last to run from danger when I was little (dont get it twisted. last to run but always ALWAYS first to safety)....I don't pay attention to my surroundings. So me not seeing any kind of excitement like this since I've been in Chicago, I jumped up out da buuuuus turned my swaaaag onnnnn....LOL! Nah just playing. But I did get off the bus to be in the midst of it all.  Firehose water spraying in the air, thick lung absorbing smoke, firemen/police pushing trash cans inside of stores....then I noticed, "Damn! The damn Footlocker and Bakers is on freaking fire!!" I was supposed to go shopping today at 10 to get some shoes and an outfit for my birthday! Ain't this bout a bit....!!! F&#!ing swine flu!!" Even though no one mentioned it...I just KNEW the swine flu was the cause of that fire and NO ONE can tell me different. Then I thought, "Man if this was Atlanta folks would be stealing shoes....lame Chicago .

I kinda wish it was Godzilla or something like that movie Constantine....nah that thing off of Constantine was kinda fast. Godzilla moves slow....just to my liking. I had a dream last night that was similar to that.  I loved it because I outran everybody and had the best hiding spots. I guess it's just me wishing I could run track again. Damn swine flu....

What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become?

Well when I was a child, I wanted to be an artist, a mad scientist (I had to be mad. If you're gonna do it go all out right?), an icecream truck driver, a boxer, etc. Nothing normal. One thing for sure I knew dag on well I didn't want to go to the Olympics. I started running track at the age of 5 or 6 and I just stopped in college. I loved winning but I hated the pain. Running hurts!!

aaaanyhoo,

By the time I was in middle school, I had my whole life planned out.  I was going to graduate from hs at 18, go to Morris Brown and play in the marching band, run track, and major in Business Mgmt, graduate from there at 21 or 22 depends on the date, get married by 23 lol, have my first child by 25, and so forth.

Yikes!!! Like hell would I want that now! With that plan I wouldn't have time to breathe.

I planned on having 5 or 6 kids (which I still don't mind doing...ok maybe 3-5) and I knew all of their names. Dynasty O'Cean (pronounced Oh Shun), Kia Mai'Chonn (pronounced My Shon), Kentarius and Kionne (twin boy and girl), Rashad, and Junior. Wooooo! Talk about ghetto. Good googly moogly what was I going through.

So the child me would probably be a little disappointed....ok she'd get all gangsta on me. I quit track because of an altercation with my college coach, I'm not married (playuh playuh), and I daaaamn sure don't have any kids. I did go to an HBCU like I wanted to though!
   

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