nah both can thrown in the bushes
Exactly. A good friend of mine had an opportunity for years to become a business partner with a guy he knew. For years his family all of them brothers, sister, mom, dad, grandparents, uncles were like "Nah son, dont do it, blood is thicker than water...listen to us. We only want whats best for you. We're family we know whats best for each other." This went on for about 3 years while my boy Sean worked a couple of stupid jobs and was going to school, he had no girl and was generally unhappy, you could see it on his face. And his family was consistently in his ear. His potential business partner was like "Hey man whenever you decide to come aboard your place is always welcome." Anyway my boy Sean took a risk and it paid off. within 6-8 months he was pullin in 80 grand and after about a year he was easily doin 120..he and his business venture because pretty public. He was and still is on the news every so often givin back to the community and organizing stuff. Needless to say he's happy as hell, he's doing what he's wanted to do since he was 11 years old.
His family though...they dont really fukk with him like that anymore. He's never rubbed it in their face or said "I told you so" or "You were wrong" and he aint flashy either...drives a 2006 camry...After he made the decision to try to do what he wanted he told me his pops said "Go ahead, do what you want to do " and since then they dont really fukk with him. They never ask about his job or how he's doin, theyve never been to his house which he's had for almost 5 years. His fukkin brother is a chump, wont even let him babysit/watch his kid, but will let everyone else in the family do so.
Its wild because me and him have been gettin close since he really aint got family anymore. His grandma passed in Oct 2012, and my boy found a family photo with him, his brothers and sister, mom and dad and both sets of grandparents. He found someone to blow it up and have it framed (a really nice frame) he gave it to his parents/family at Christmas 2012---I guess its sittin in their garage uncovered has dust and oil stains on it and might even have a hole in it. The nikka broke down on me when he told me that around 4th of July....like they really dont fukk with him like that. He kind of thought it was in his head because nobody has blatantly said anything to him or acknowledged why they treat him like they do..they never called him for thanksgiving. He was telling me he wouldnt even be mad if they asked him for money or argued with him or blatantly ignored him, they just dont fukk with him at all. His dumb ass brother didnt invite him to his own nephews birthday. If it werent for me and a couple other people dude would be out on his own. He had a decent girl for a minute but he cut that off because he could never introduce her to his family because they aint fukkin with him...we were talkin the other day he said hes going to give it until Spring of 2014 and if shyt hasnt changed with them he's just gonna stop fukkin with them, stop showing up on moms birthday and christmas and all that just fukk'em be an orphan and just move on with his life.
This made me realise something. So yes it is true.
Its an easy question.
Think of something your family did to you that was messed up.
Now.....if your friend did that would you still be friends with them? No. You woulda tossed that clown nikka in the bushes. But family will always be family (unless they did something really evil and unforgivable).
Another question to ask yourself is.....if your were in a drowning car and you could save either your cousin or your best friend.......who would you save and who would you let die? Me and my cousin not even close like that but, my best friend would have to take that L Sorry breh, this is family Best friend could call me every name in the book as the water filled up the car but, I know if it was between me and his sister, he'd save his sister and look at me like
I have a great family so for me, there could never be anyone outside of it that could replace them. I'll toss people in the bushes left and right, but I can't and have never been able to turn my back on my blood. They've built up so much credit with me and held me down that I could never repay them
Not trying to diss anyone but I honestly feel bad for people that have shytty families, I couldn't imagine it.
I know this but we have changed the meaning of the quote in this century.