Hey guys. It's been a really long time. I just have a quick favor to ask of you.
I carry Amark Patra's book, Breaking The System, with me in my backpack almost wherever I go. I didn't know Steel very well when he was here. I think I was too much of a kid back them. I miss him a lot.
Recently I have been wanting to revisit the message he left the world with, and the advice that went along with it. I'm sure many of you were as touched as I was when reading it. I only have a small segment of it, which I have saved in my online journal, so to speak.
"As for me; I'm not ready to die. I don't want to. I'll go into this surgery prepared to survive. I'll fight cancer with every last bit of strength I've got. You can shoot me and I'll keep going. But if I do, do not mourn me. I have had a decent life so far. I'm only 22 and I've already gotten so high I've felt the rhythm of the universe around me. I've gotten so drunk in a parking lot that I started singing for no reason. I've known pain, both emotional and physical, that most people don't know till much further in life. I've fallen in love and had my heart broken. I've seen the inside of a jail cell. I beat someone up once to protect a friend, even though I was outnumbered and about five years old. I have done both great and awful things in my life. I have cried tears for dead people I never knew, and I have broken doors in rage over people I cannot save. I have lived a life. I hope I get to keep on living. I hope I can fall in love again and this time make it work. I hope I can adopt a child. I hope I can see my friends get married. I hope I can make an album. I hope I can learn to write, and write well. I hope I can save an innocent man from dying. I hope I can live. But if I don't, your life still goes on. There are innocent men who will still die if no one saves them. There are weddings and parties to attend that will be missing one guest. There's a beautiful girl reading a book somewhere or about to go to sleep who might suddenly shiver, and not understand why. There are still children who need families. Never stay content unless you've earned it. You have no greater purpose in life than to help others, no matter how small an effort you can exert. And don't forget I love you." Love you all. Hope you guys are doing well.
-JOJOFACE
I carry Amark Patra's book, Breaking The System, with me in my backpack almost wherever I go. I didn't know Steel very well when he was here. I think I was too much of a kid back them. I miss him a lot.
Recently I have been wanting to revisit the message he left the world with, and the advice that went along with it. I'm sure many of you were as touched as I was when reading it. I only have a small segment of it, which I have saved in my online journal, so to speak.
-JOJOFACE