Category: Character
DISLOYALTY
I’m a confirmed disloyal individual, I think. You might be as well. Far back as I can remember I’ve been giving people reasons to not like me. I’ve often thought that people can like the you they make you out to be but the minute you disappoint??? Now you’re the brotha they love to hate, …
PARIAHS OF SPORT
Aren’t Tiger Woods, Michael Vick, Joe Paterno, and Kobe Bryant unforgiveable? These are the men of scorn in athletics with the recent addendum of Penn State University’s beloved Joe Pa. And what makes a pariah? Well, here’s what happens: people who think they’re better than the heinous, notorious all-stars find rest in positions of judgement. …
DENOUMENT FROM TRIPLE OVERTIME
When the events of the story conclude, tie up and make sense, you have Denoument. We make resolutions at various times throughout life and to say we’re short sighted would be grotesquely inadequate. Our resolutions are not action focused or developmental. We determine to reach these pinnacles and shock the world. And I watch USC …
SHOOTOUT WITH GOD
God sometimes demands so much of you that it’s maddening. I was talking to my wife yesterday about a holding pattern I’ve been in my whole life. There is such a thing as too comfortable with who you are. My case-in-point is how in the midst of debt, a new job and the horizon of …
BREAKIN’ UP 2.0
Technology has taken “Dear John” to a new level. I parted ways with my mobile carrier yesterday and fell into the arms of another. The beauty of the potentially cataclysmic event was that I didn’t even have to see my old carrier face-to-face. My ex-service provider had no leverage either. They couldn’t have retained my …