My name is Jason....but I go by a healthy list of nicCnames, aliases, aka's, etc....
When I turned 18 I got my first tattoo "Death Before Dishonor around a samurai sword.8 months later I got a guardian angel on my other arm. I'm not the first to have either one but at the time and still today they hold deep meaning for me. They represent what I believe, what I do and who I am. These feelings have various roots. At the heart of it is my family structure. I grew up in a 2 family house that was the "welcome mat to the hood". 9 Brook St which has been renamed Malcolm X Blvd. Anyway, I lived with both parents, a younger brother 2 aunts and a female cousin. That equals 4 older women raising me while my dad worked. Now my dad was and still is the central figure/example to me as he sufficiently provided for us all. But in this entry lets focus on the females effect on me. I had strong positive females around me and that through the years instilled a very protective nature in me towards females in general and an extremely protective nature to those that were close to me.
Fast forward to high school because until then my interaction with girls with limited. I was very Steve Urkelish so you can only imagine. Anyway, in my mind females were to be treated a particular and respected as such, so I was the old school gentleman helping and holding doors, blah, blah, blah. This was met with bewilderment and skepticism from females who thought "He must want something" I really didn't. It was just who I was. There reached a point where I started to doubt the logic that told me that this is how I should have been operating. But as fate would have it I got the ultimate reassurance from to females I had become very close with.They were twins, so I'll refer to them collectively as that. These twins arrived late in the junior school yr and took the whole place by storm.2 short, cute big booty(yet nicely proportioned) PR girls. They broke necCs throughout the whole place. Now yeah I thought they were cute but I wasn't pushing up on them.I was still a V trooper and not really concerned with sex. Anyway, we just ended all being cool. I went over their place to help with school work, being the high student I was,lol. I got cool with their younger cousins and to me it was just being a good friend.
I was on the basketball team and this is where I earned another aspect of my personality, a serious dislike for disrespectful guys. We're all in the locCer room and talk turns to females. I would get the "hey Zig(basketball niccname) whats good with you and the Twins?...I'd reply "Nothing.We're just cool" which would get its jeers but no one questioned it. I guess the idea of me "getting with" the 2 new hot girls wasn't something they felt could happen. Well then one of the team captains said. "Please **name withheld** is all on my shit.I'ma fucC her watch." Now I knew it wasn't on me to cocC blocC cuz I knew **name withheld** actually liked him but the slicC talk just never has sat well with me.
Before we all graduated these twins confined something very deep to me. The fact that prior to the establishment of our friendship that they were actually suicidal and that my showing them caring and compassion without any personal desires helped them get through the tough transition.They were the first people a social setting to tell me they loved me and that I was there guardian angel. So that's where it came from.
That Guardian position has maintained and evolved over the years. I now have females friends bigger issues, domestic issues, single parenting issues. I'm really earning my guardian title and while its difficult at times. I wear it proudly because its what I was built for. Buuuuut, its made me a little weird to some things. Its 2009 and lets be realistic I don't know or seriously doubt that any of my female friends are V troopers but I get my protective gut gets a funny feeling when my lady friends talk about sex. Now its not because I think their not having but rather.....I know so much about them and the guys they have dealt with that my guardian gear shoots into over drive and I feel that these bitch ass, fronting ass, lame ass clowns are worthy to be interacting with my folk like that. Yeah it's extreme I know but its what I am.
I love my people to degree that I really can't describe. There are billions of people walking this earth so excuse me if I'm a little protective of the handful that mean something to me. If there were armies of guys like me then it wouldn't matter.But then you have men like the ones that create THESE stories, someone has to be there to even the playing field.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Ok lets Chat........
Posted by NightFall914 at 12:26 PM
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3 comments:
and for that reason you know i love ya!
but know that you are not required to carry that burden.. ;)
Yeah... what she said :)
you're such a wonderful and beautiful man, it's really a shame that there aren't more out there like you... or that they're so heavily hidden...
I feel very blessed to have you as apart of my life... even though distantly... and the female (as you call them) that nabs you will be the luckiest woman alive...
I hope you stay the same... at least in this respect... always..
... and we all have "lames" in our lives @ one point or another... lol thnx for helping me with mine :)
Wow. This is a wonderful post. I've learned so much more about you but one thing that has remained true throughout all of ur posts is your compassion and concern for others. You don't find that in people these days.
For that...u will be blessed.
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