When knocked down, get up. Staying strong and focused on a positive future.
A child was born to the streets of the ghetto.
Extremely hard times seemed
all he would ever know.
It seemed no matter how hard he tried
the streets continued to knock him down.
Everyday, his mommy would tell him,
"Baby, don't let these streets defeat you!"
In return, he would tell her,
"Mommy I'm gonna make you proud of me!"
Each time he would suffer a blow
from the mean streets,
he would stay true to the words,
"Mommy I'm gonna make you proud of me."
As time went on,
survival allowed this child
to grow into a man.
Hence growing into a man
and surviving the streets
ultimately meant
he made his mommy proud of him.
In life, we will be knocked down,
but we gotta get up.
We should all wanna make somebody
proud of us.
Tough streets make strong men… Some good… Some bad… I believe it results from parenting although I know of one, our own Ed Phillips here, who didn't have any parents at all after five years old.
Reminds me of an e-mail I got yesterday from my former student worker who has looked after his mother since before he entered college, has a successful trucking business and runs Man of Principle here in Houston, a summer program for young boys (and girls) giving them a strong sense of self-worth and direction toward success.
