Frosty's Flava Magazine AUG-SEP- 2019 URBAN FILM FESTIVAL EDITION | Page 47

In many situations I took the
greater risk, hoping that it
would eventually lead to a
greater reward -- but even that
sometimes was short of my goal.
However, each failure I faced - it
poisoned me to be the BEST ME
that I could possibly be.
Thank you for your false
impression of who I
really am!
question myself & making
me realize that; every next
level of my life, would require
a different and even more
intensified version of myself.
Perhaps there was a small bit
of truth behind your criticism.
It is because of your skepticism
and disbelief that I am who I am
today. You see, I didn’t just want
to prove you wrong, I wanted
to prove myself wrong for even
thinking there was a possibility
that you were right.
Thank You, for giving me the
strength to work harder, and
that even if I fail - getting up
and trying again was not
an option… but a priority.
If I didn’t know some-
thing, I taught myself.
If I wanted some-
thing, I worked for
it. And despite me
having a firm foun-
dation, I felt as if
I was standing
on nothing, and
that everything
around me was
falling apart -
because I had
reached a thresh-
old where I had
to decide if I was
actually ready to
go to the next level.
Thank You, for
forcing me to learn
to not care what
others think of me!
Maybe
your
perception of me
was based off of something that I
might have said one day, an outfit
I wore, the pitch of my voice, the
color of my skin or something
someone said about me.
Regardless of what it was, you
must not have known me very
well to doubt my FUTURE self.
Thank You, for making me
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I’m definitely not perfect. I
sometimes even mess up and
don’t do things by the books. But
I have learned to utilize my flaws
and use them to help me become
a better person. Teaching me that
when I finally decided to level-
up and go bigger, my life would
become very difficult for a short
period of time and although I
may have mastered algebra - I
was now registered to start a
calculus course and I would be
completely disoriented.
Thank You, for building my up
confidence!
With every accomplishment
came even more belief that I
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