You know, I don’t think you’re really in it to win it. If you were, you’d be up earlier. You’d be watching less stupid ass YouTube videos. You’d probably be smoking less too, but you know what, none of that bothers me. What bothers me is the way you talk about it, like you’re the pinnacle of commitment, like you’re the boss, on his way to achieving greatness. But I think you’re full of shit. You don’t say anything that I haven’t heard before from some schmuck who thinks he’s got the world at his fingertips, and acts like he doesn’t have to do shit to win the game. But you do. You gotta practice, and you gotta compete, and you gotta feel like every second that you’re not fighting the good fight that you’re gonna lose it all. Nothing is free, you hear me? You hear what I’m trying to say?

I guess.

I feel like you’re not listening, like you tuned me out the second I started speaking. Like you think what I got to say isn’t as important or as valuable as whatever the fuck daydream you’re wandering around in, like I don’t really know what I’m talking about so why the fuck should you listen to me. But you know what, I know a couple things. I’ve been through the ringer a few times, I’ve figured out what it means to get knocked down and struggle to get back up again, to rediscover what it’s like to stand on my own two feet. I know a thing or two.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah, you know. Sure. But there’s a difference between knowing and just saying you know, you know?

I guess?

What are you trying to do, huh? You wanna make me shut up? You want me to go away? You want me to leave you the fuck alone so you can get back to whatever the hell you’re doing in here, like I’m interrupting some important meeting, like you gotta get back to business, like the second I leave here you’re NOT just gonna go back to trolling Reddit and commenting on some other asshole’s comment about some OTHER asshole’s comment, right?

Uh…

You want me to go? Because that’s the difference here, I’m waiting for you to hear me and then get to WORK, like, MAKE something, doesn’t matter what, just stop consuming and consuming every second of the day. Take the potential that’s sitting somewhere in there and spark it up, learn what it feels like to turn nothing into SOMEthing.