CHANGE

Everybody know. Change is good.

Change can be bad or good but it is good in the essence because it defines your character and who you are becoming as a person.

I've made giant leaps of change over the past 4 years of my life. Change for the good, of course. However, sometimes people take advantage of those good changes that you make in your life.

It's like I sit back and think, "Only if they knew how I used to be and what I would've done to they ass."

You see, only a weak spirited person falls for the game. I could easily retract back to my former lifestyle and assault (physically and mentally) someone when they try to play me but that doesn't do anything for me and the change that I'm making.

Realize that it is power in defying the odds. There is power in not failing and not falling back in a certain negative.

I backslid from the church when I was 13 after being heavily involved and I haven't been right since. I haven't been right not because I'm not in the church but because I failed at that function of my life and I haven't made amends with that situation (and whoever else I should have to answer to one day).

But the truth of the matter is, I have to look at myself everyday in the mirror and hold myself accountable for my actions. That's why it's easy for me to accept change.

It does get hard because you try to be yourself - upstanding, legit, clean, etc. and it seems like people don't accept that person, you know. It's like they'd rather have old Zach. and to the ones who didn't know old Zach, only if they knew old Zach...they'd pray for the person that stands in front of them in the present. LOL

The solution: Fuck them and continue to strive to be around the people that can appreciate the change.

Here is to CHANGE.


ZACH TRIPPER