What’s up world?
The names Willy, I am not going to drop my last name cause frankly I see no reason to do so. If your reading this blog chances are you know who I am. I was inspired to do this blog by Khary Anderson with his blog “Brown Skin Big Brain.” While I was reading his I just thought.. why not me? Why can’t I voice things I think out here on the interwebs? So I created a WordPress and Kablam here I am. By the way, the grammar and punctuation isn’t gonna be perfect so bear with me, I plan on getting these out weekly or whenever the spirit moves me
This first blog post is about the origin of my mantra of “Silence All Doubters”.
Thinking back on it, me coming up with this motto and abiding by it has gotten me to where I am today ( Sophomore at Villanova.) It started about my sophomore year in HS. I was taking two honors classes and the rest were CP classes and I would get A’s with minimal effort and I was always the smartest kid in the room. For some reason my freshman and sophomore year I would limit myself. I was scared to challenge myself with more honors or AP classes. That is until one day my sophomore year.. I remember it so vividly, we were sitting in there talking not doing work cause it was a CP English class and some girl was complaining about the little work that we had to do. She said something along the lines of “why do I have to do this? I am never going to have to use this, I just want to become a waitress.” Shoot. When I heard that I thought HOLD ON PLAYA!!! How are you gonna sell yourself that short and have no ambition or goals? It was at that moment I realized I was too damn smart to be in classes like those. So I upped my game up and started taking all AP’s and Honors.
This is where Silence all Doubters comes into play, along the way into takin better classes I had a few people call me out saying that I didn’t have it in me and that I was only gonna stumble. I was determined to prove them wrong… (Quick side note: The easiest way to get me to prove you wrong is to challenge me….Never challenge me, I am extremely competitive.) This was during the summer time. Junior year comes around and im doing alright in my classes but still nothing out of this world. New Years comes and I am doing some soul-searching and I just got fed up with everything. I promised my self to never let anyone doubt me again and if they do doubt I promised myself that I would do every single thing in my power to shut them up. That promise I made to myself, actually turned around my life. I may have been around a 3.4 student up until my sophomore year. When I made that promise I probably averaged around a 4.5 GPA.
Silence All Doubters stretched further than school. It stretched to sports and family and friends and even the lovely ladies. I also promised myself to help out anyone who struggled the same way I did. I guess that’s kind of why I started this blog off with this post. So that people would hear my voice or at least the 2 people who read this will hear it. So I guess if I have to relay a message to the kiddies out there. Stay in school, don’t do drugs and have confidence in yourself.
Confidence was a big player in me developing Silence All Doubters but that’s a different story for a different day.
I have to make one shout out. I am not gonna use her name cause I ain’t about that life but I’d like to thank the dumbass girl who made that comment about being a waitress. You changed my life.
My journey is far from over. I still have doubters. College is brand new ball game and I have to prove myself to a lot of people. Including myself.
-Silence All Doubters
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