My life in Quotes

 I walked through a doorway every day where there was evil and adorned through the house were skulls, the air was thick with evil and it was heavy with pain. That is the feeling I felt for almost a year of living with my former friend Nicole. She carried a heavy burden that I've never told and won't tell for it's not my business to tell her pain. We stopped being friends during the time that I lived with her. She made it very clear that when I lost my job paying rent was the most important thing to her and not how I felt. She constantly told me it's just business and I felt like a tenant that was torn between a shitty friend and a shitty landlord. She was so condescending towards me from day one where she was worried about all of her stuff that might get damaged from me moving in. I had to pay for the cover for the guest bed that was to be put in the garage because I wanted to sleep on my own bed. She was so concerned that I would ruin the garbage disposal that she flew...

This is just a bunch of thoughts. They are interconnected on the basis that Facebook has a thing called timeline and it made me think at 2:30 am in the friggin morning. It helped me be grateful for where I've been and where I'm going. I've been in Charlotte since 1995, wow! I love this city and I've had a wild time here. I've made a ton of friends and if you ask this shy kid in 2003, would have ever touched so many lives and met so many amazing people, I'd have shit myself. Hahaha! I've worked for companies, left and been asked to rejoin them. I've had three recommendations to the police academy before I started CPCC. I've graduated high school from United Faith and I struggled with college and I overcame obstacles to get two Associates degrees and I'm working on getting a bachelor's degree again because it just didn't happen. I've had my heartbroken and had it pieced back together, a handful of times. I've played for the Jun...

A Learning Experience By Joshua Paul Harke "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison I would like to believe that there is more to life than just suffering and feeling like we are in constant pity. We have to thrive, if we give in to the pain and suffering, we will perish. This is my take on the Thomas Edison quote. I am writing this to share my higher education journey while developing mental health illness. In 2001 I graduated from high school and I was one of Who’s Who Among American High School Students. I was a great kid; I was voted most school spirit at UFCA my senior year. I played ice hockey, soccer, baseball and I was the mascot in my school. I was very loved according to my yearbooks and senior memoirs. In my freshman year of 2001 that all changed. I went from a small Christian school to UNCC, which was a culture shock. Thousands of freshmen enter the halls...