Written By: Anthony Douglas Gere
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The Dirty Needle Treatment
By ADGere
The other day while sitting in the park with my family, a few things
came across my mind and made me relish life within the moment,
remember a story a once promising athlete told me a few years
back and the exposure of children’s environment in today’s world
compare to when I was my nephews age. Now it’s no secret how
different California is to the rest of the world, and how different
the three parts of the state is. How in southern California you
have the proverbial fast life, great weather and beaches, and in
the central part of the Golden State , agriculture, the I.R.S.
Headquarters, prisons and more. In northern California where I
grew up, there are hippies, the gay capital, Silicon Valley, Yahoo,
Google, The Napa Wine Country and the birth of free love. But it
actually doesn’t stop there because even further north, you have
logging, the beautiful mountains and an almost rural culture that
is home to the infamous Humboldt County Marijuana farms. Now
not to discount the importance of the rest of the world and the
unique things many parts of the country brings to the table,
understand that I also would like to acknowledge how your town
or city where you live, has its own signature thing about it. It may
be the way people talk, dress or walk, as it could be the politics,
the invisible but concrete segregation in social classes, race,
religion or what have you. But as far out as you can take it,
California , especially in the bay area, is as unique as anywhere in
the world. I often tell people when traveling and speaking on the
things I see and how I see them that at a early age, that I was
shown and seen so much in so many different situations and
scenarios, that it actually kind of desensitized me to many things,
and made me realize the possible aspects in what to many could
seem impossible to even fathom, could actually be pulled off and
put together if I was able to live with that moment. But I don’t
think I am know or any better blessed than anyone else, and
seeing how many things are created under many different
circumstances, I am quick to state that while opportunities are in
abundance, one must be able to see them, absorb and apply
them, along with being able to respect the gift as something
greater than ones self and the responsibility in your part within
it. I for one have been in many deals that I felt I could handle, but
in the end, they actually handled me like one of my dogs with a
bone. I mean yeah, I could and did chalk it up as a learning
experience, but in all reality, what I learned is that I am or was not
as great and talented as I thought, and the only way to become
what I inspired to be, was to humble myself before the
opportunity, and allow it to accept me and my gifts, instead of me
thinking I was the gift to it.