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"It’s an epidemic."

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But if you can keep it about the work, you’ll always have a path. There’s always something to be done.”

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"Get a job, save your money, pull yourself up by the bootstraps."

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I also want to learn if i can do it. I am a little afraid that i'll get lonely, but thats something i want to figure out. :')

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http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/154602862621/i-teach-english-at-a-community-college-in-queens

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failure is the stepping stone to success

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http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/153245879261/my-mom-died-of-lung-cancer-on-my-sixteenth
My mom died of lung cancer on my sixteenth birthday. My birthday is actually coming up—this Saturday.

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

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"But I’m realizing that a good relationship with my parents will always require doing exactly what they say.”

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So I had to learn to let it go. I used to really care about the job. But I’ve had to just start viewing it as a paycheck.”

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“I thought we were happy. We had two kids. She was a great mom. But three or four years into our marriage, she started playing that Sims game online. You can be anyone in that game. She could be the perfect wife or whatever. She was always on that computer. Then she started playing this other game where you can marry, date, and screw people. All of it is fake, but people actually develop feelings for each other. In real life these guys are probably 450 lbs. but online they look like Superman. There was actually one guy that she called ‘her Superman.’ He even started mailing Superman trinkets to the house. She wouldn’t quit. I even tried to break her cellphone with my hand. I just wanted her to live her life with us. But we weren’t enough for her.”

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Life Is Tough :') - Ace

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I’m going to the gym more. I’m trying to stay healthy. I’m enrolled in a special savings program for her college education. I’ve been adding money to it since the day she was born. Because if something happens to me, the amount doubles.”

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And I’m at the point where I’d like some freedom to live my life.”

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“I feel homeless. Like this isn’t the place that I thought it was. I feel like I don’t understand where I am. Where we all are.

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Because no matter what you think you can be, there’s still gotta be people like me.”

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She’d never say this to me, but I think she feels that I let her down.”

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People bring me their challenges and I solve their problems. You can say that I am their champion. I am not a citizen. But when I help people with their problems, that makes me part of the community. So I do feel like an American.”

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My mom has been really sick for 50 to 60 percent of my life.She was so sick during my honeymoon that I had to call the hospital every three hours

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She doesn’t say actual words. And it doesn’t make any sense. But I never tell her to be quiet, because it’s better than nothing at all.”

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But so many of them already have a self-defeating attitude. And I don’t want to discourage them any further.”

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I’m realizing that a good relationship with my parents will always require doing exactly what they say.”

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"Placing value on a student’s writing is much more nuanced and complicated. "

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“I’m not sure if people have become less interesting, or if I’m just less interested in people.”

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gay friends

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" It’s the one who wins the fight. The one who protects the woman. The one who protects himself.”

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And just because it didn’t happen forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t valuable.’”

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"And I’m at the point where I’d like some freedom to live my life.”

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I had to learn how to do things the right way, not sell drugs, not cut corners

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You want to know how awesome my Dad is? He went to court and tried to legally change my birthday. Just so I wouldn’t have to go through it every year.

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I just wanted to
have black friends and white friends and gay friends

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I got so angry with God for not keeping up his end of the bargain. But after some time, I finally realized why he wouldn’t change me. He never felt like he needed to.”

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Respect your toys. Respect your parents. Respect other people. Respect their property. Respect is the basis for everything. Without it, everything falls apart.“

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Because you can never truly know if someone’s ‘fine’ unless you trust them to tell you when something’s wrong.“

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But if you can keep it about the work, you’ll always have a path. There’s always something to be done.”

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I got so angry with God for not keeping up his end of the bargain. But after some time, I finally realized why he wouldn’t change me. He never felt like he needed to.”

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"I wish I could just start my story with that phone call. With her saying that she loved me."

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http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/155406967731/i-thought-when-i-came-to-new-york-it-was-going-to But in reality, I still spend a lot of time alone. I think it’s because I’m afraid of being a burden on those around me. What if I’m not fun enough? What if the parts of me that are sad and complaining outweigh the parts of me that are good? Will I be wasting other people’s time? And when I do spend time with other people, I’m afraid to demand a certain level of kindness and respect. Because maybe that will make me even more of a burden. So I don’t reach out to other people very much. I spend a lot of time alone. 2017 story lul

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"Respect your parents. Respect other people. Respect their property. Respect is the basis for everything. Without it, everything falls apart.“

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It’s important to me and it’s something that we’d have to deal with eventually.

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"I was tired of worrying if people suspected, or if they’d find out, or if they’d still care about me if they knew."

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"Respect is the basis for everything. Without it, everything falls apart.“  -Zuhrah

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I regret the things I did, but I’m so happy about what I’ve done.

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"But after some time, I finally realized why he wouldn’t change me. He never felt like he needed to.”

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I can’t expect good relationships to happen just because I exist.”
HUMANS OF NEW YORK

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http://tinyurl.com/hvdzztp