I feel you 100%. But to move to a new city involves more thought then, it sucks at home, let's go. You need a concrete plan. What if your folks coming to America was like, shyt I'm here. America and full of chances and opps, and I am here, where are my chances at the dream.Dawg, I'm never hating on people. I'm always trying to build people up.
My thing is this. I've just been used to being in situations for too long where I was the odd man out. I guess my sense of pride comes from the fact that if I didn't have it, I would truly be alone and have nothing. It's a defense mechanism. I grew up in Pittsburgh and spent my life being a "weirdo" or "oddball". I had to deal with many people attacking me with insults, demeaning opinions of me, and honestly it festered inside and made me kind of angry and bitter over the years. I'm just learning to lt my guard down now.
That's why I moved to New York. I figured I'd have a better chance of getting a job, meeting people, getting more attention towards creative stuff...etc. Plus I'm actually around more people like me that I can relate to.
I've been trying to do my thing with my clothing label, my art, and my music alongside other things but I'll be honest...I've always thought of this country and my life in it as unneccessarily difficult. While others were swimming I was thrashing about not trying to drown...
I'm done here...I'm not gonna type anymore. There's nothing nothing that will change anybody's mind...this is a lost cause trying to explain myself on here because i think people just see me as this type of person and no matter what, I guess I will always be that in people's minds and I've had to work really hard to prove so many goddamn people wrong that I actually stand for something that its damn near worn me out.
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All of that takes building relationships which you haven't shown one ounce of in terms of doing it successfully. You should attend events but fall back and observe what the real are doing compared to the fake. See their ques, see what they are doing right and who you should implement into your strategy. Give it time but also make moves as well in the process.
It's not about changing my mind, I am not you and you aren't here to please me. I am good regardless.