A Hustleman Introspection: Fold or Function

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I sit back and think sometimes about where I’ve come from and all the dues I’ve had to pay to get where I’m at. I mean I’ve been through a lot, I’ve been homeless; engaged twice and never married; my mother and I don’t get along for a number of reasons which keeps an uncomfortable distance between my little brother and myself. I’ve had nice things and lost them all piece by piece. My life in my early and mid-twenties was so unstable that I never thought I would get out of the hole I dug for myself.

I’ve fought throughout all of this because I knew that deep down this was not my life, feel me? When we’re young, I think we all have a vision of what our life will be like when get older. We have goals, dreams and aspirations that very seldom develop and come to pass. Hell, I had a hard time seeing myself even alive at age 30 and now that 32 approaches this year I consider myself very blessed and thankful. My life, just as everyone else’s, is a direct reflection of my thoughts and perspective on things as well as my actions. When you look at your life you have to take responsibility for the way it is and either fold or function. Either curl up, punk out and continue living in frustration and stress, or push with everything inside of you to make things better.

The idea of fold or function isn’t mine, it was a name given to the concept of give-up or fight by a close friend of mine some years ago. The concept always stuck with me because it represents choice. As a matter of fact we make a fold or function choice every single day of our lives.

Do you continue trying to make your love relationship work, or do you give up on it? Do you choose to apply yourself to becoming better at your job or business or do you just continue to do enough to squeeze by? Do you fight to keep your children on a good and honest path or do you let someone else raise them and teach them? Do you trust that that the food you got from that fast food restaurant was prepared with your health in mind and not dropped on the floor or something worse? Do you fight to get the things that you want out of life or do you just settle for a close second or third?

Fold or function; the constant choice that is in our face to go left, go right, make a way up the middle or to not move at all. The ability to keep going despite all the bullshit that seems to be piling on top of you. The strength to live life on your terms and not fall into the trap of what’s called “normal”; what’s normal for the next person may not feel right to you. To accept that every thought we think, everything we say and everything action we take will at some point come back to us and we will have to deal with its results whether positive or negative. You can lie to anyone except to yourself and to the Higher Power. Bottom line. Simple.

So do a favor for your Hustleman; the next time you are faced with a decision to take action to improve your life, do it! Push the fear and doubt aside and move forward. Some say that the window of opportunity open and closes, if you miss it, you may never get another chance. This isn’t true! There’s always opportunity around us if you are focused on the greater good. While not all opportunities are right for us, there is always one that is. Take it from someone whose been there and back, went there again and is back this time to stay. There is no burden placed on you that you cannot handle and there is no greater feeling than facing all your opposition (internal and external) and still coming out a winner.

My Hustle partner New York once said this to one of his people, also a fellow Hustler. “You don’t have shit because you have the game wrong. You hustle for you; you only hustle for yourself. You don’t hustle for your family; you don’t hustle to make things better. All you care about is what you can get right now. You don’t even look out for people who look out for you.”

I bring this quote up because it’s another fold or function principle. The more you focus on your survival (and only your survival), the harder it is to survive. When you get selfish and stop caring about others, they will stop caring about you. This life is built so that sooner or later we will eventually need to involve ourselves with other people to help us, assist us and advance. This is yet another choice to make as you go throughout your day. More to all and less to none; I hope you’re hearing me.

Be good all. Peace and blessings Fam, until next time.


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