Make Believe.

Pretend.
That's the word of the day.
Pretend you had everything you ever wanted.
All the women/ men.
All the money.
All the dope whips and houses in
countries like Belize and Switzerland.

Would you be happy?
I mean.. of course you'd have all
the material things and people
falling all over you hoping for a piece
of the aesthetic pie but would you
really be happy?

Would anyone really be your friend?
Would they love you for you and not
for what you could do for them?
Would they treat you the same and place you
on a pedestal if you were nothing..
Living in the projects with mice and roaches
as pets.. With no hot water
or no elevator in a twenty-story building.
Would they still want you?
Would they take you for face-value?
No.
Simply put, no.

It's either you have something that someone
wants or you provide a service that
they need now or will need inevitably.

Your "good qualities" wouldn't matter.
You'd be on Cribs throwing dollars at the camera
with 400 close "friends" hooting and hollering
but at the end of the day.. do you love yourself?

Think about it.. could you love yourself
after making it out the hood and not helping
those that helped you?
I couldn't.. that's for damn sure.