You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.
The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don__ have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom__ house asking people for money and it__ not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone__ always worse off than you, and you don__ feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn__ that much higher than you, either. It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don__ have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom__ house asking people for money and it__ not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone__ always worse off than you, and you don__ feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn__ that much higher than you, either. It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.
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