Day one: I try so hard
It’s people like Mr. G who I despise, who I really do not envy at all nor care about. People who talk themselves higher and put others down, you know what I mean? We have all ran into negative people, people who don’t believe in you and only look at the bad things. I was simply putting my life in perspective, and I have people come along my blog saying things like “If only you had an education, you would of known how to better manage your money, and you wouldn’t being going to jail.” Blah blah blah. I am pretty sure I was aware of how to manage money, and probably know more about stocks and investments than half the people who read my blog and have an “education.” I have read books beyond books, and have real life experience. You know how many people come to me saying how much better they would of done if they have made the money I have, but you want to know what I think. I think everybody and their mothers are full of themselves, and just love the feeling of saying “I would do so much better than Andrew.” I would like to see what you would do at the age of 17 when a hundred thousand dollars coming in every month Mr G. Aren’t you ashamed Mr G? For putting yourself above me and calling me a prostitute? The only reason I am reflecting back to Mr G’s comment, is because he felt he had to go anonymous to make himself look better than me. Me personally, I try to avoid at all costs putting anyone below me and trying to prove I am a better person than anyone. I don’t believe in being an asshole. I would also like to note, the new me, is because I am into fashion/glamour photography. I use to hate photos of myself when I had acne, but now that I have clear skin, it feels good.
Mr G says, “Andrew, why did you spend 110k on Drivable.com? You could have spent much less to produce something like that. It’s not like there are super features that required so much programming and money to produce it.” I can be an asshole right now or I could simply say, Mr G, “You have not seen the entire site and what has been done nor put into the site, cause you have only seen the beta front end.” I’ll just leave it at that, this requires no argument or discussion.
I am sure everyone has ran into bad friends or bad decisions, myself on the other hand… I have ran into many. Let me tell an old story of mine, it’s not to old, but I’ll shorten it up for everyone. I use to have a friend, we lived together, our friendship I would like to say was normal for a long long time. We ran into an issue when we lived in the bottom of my basement. I found out he was talking to friends behind my back trying to make me look bad, so he could make more money than I was making. To put 2 and 2 together, he would say things like, “Andrew makes me do all the work, and takes the money, he doesn’t do jack shit…” I found out of course, and let it slide a week later, and we moved in together into a new apartment. Here I am now, happened to make a website and make some money, and I find out from tons of people, his friends, my friends, and everybody around me… That he has been trash talking about me behind my back saying things like “Andrew doesn’t do shit, I can get any girl Andrew gets, blah blah blah.” Just immature pointless shit, and just when you think it couldn’t get any worse… Has anyone heard the term stabbed in the back or fucked over? I wont’ give anymore details, but that is what happened to me, by my own friend… Now the reason I tell this absolutely pointless story is because… He comes to me randomly maybe once a week saying either random sarcastic bullshit, and rubbing shit in my face. “How is your perfect life, you have everything.” I guess you could say guilt trips right? Who the hell has time for bullshit like that? It’s immature and very distracting for me. So just be careful everyone. I once ran into a quote I truly believe, it goes “Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.” I would like to say my two best friends fell into that, it’s very difficult to believe, but it’s true. Now I don’t want to put myself above anyone, or seem like I am saying I am better than anyone else. But if your young and growing towards success, you have to be so cautious in life, it’s ridiculous. Back in the past, I had nothing to worry about, but now it’s like everyone is an enemy wanting to see me fail.
“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.” - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.” - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
“An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.” - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Here I am the first day after my dramatic blog post last night sitting at Starbucks on my laptop, posting another blog. Thinking to myself what can I do to see myself grow, I have ideas, I have passions, I have goals, and I have dreams. All I have to do is put them together, and with all the distractions around, I think the best bet would be to just get away to think and work alone. I almost thought about getting a hotel Downtown Denver for a few nights to just sit, think, and work. I hope this blog helps inspire myself and others reading.
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Comment by Martial Arts on 23 May 2007:
Mr G cant even utilize correct grammar.. here are a few special quotes from him:
“did you actually had to buy 4 cars in 2006?” - had?
“You put make up on like and posing like a prostitute.” -like like like?
lol what a douche… Mr. G is probably some fat fuck sitting in his mom’’s basement envious of all your assets.
Comment by Andrew Fashion on 23 May 2007:
Agreed
Comment by Kris Chase on 23 May 2007:
Andrew,
you’re amazing. You and I have both a lot of the same experiences, you and I grew through and got money just like the other, we got rich, blew a lot of money, made some bad decisions, but through it you and I have learned more to life than many people.
Like you said, its so easy for people to sit back and say, “I would have been smart, I would have done this or that” But its really not that easy, No matter what they say, its just not as easy as it seems to be in control.
We gotta talk. Hit me up.
Comment by Andrew Fashion on 23 May 2007:
Definitely Kris, I am glad you understand! Feel free to hit me anytime I am on AIM.
Comment by Mini Mini MIni ME!! on 23 May 2007:
Hey Andrew, I saw your post on Myspace and just thought I’d drop by to see how things were going on for you. Seems like I can go both ways for you. Sometimes it sounds like you’re just doing great and sometimes not quite there. Sounds to me Andrew you need a partner in crime!!! haha. Someone to work with you to keep you company but then can keep you on track. Thats what I do for school, something your lucky talented butt don’t gotta worry about. When I’m stressed over homework and I can’t concntrate, I find myself a study buddy that would do work with me to keep working hard. As long as there is someone there working hard with me, I get so much more done. You should try it! Anyways I’m at work right now or else I would right more. But you know you got yourself some good friends and a good girlfriend. And me! haha So if ever need someone to talk to, I’m sure you have plenty thats by your side to support you. Bon Voyage!!!
Comment by Rob on 23 May 2007:
Andrew, keep your head up buddy. Money does funny things to people and relationships, and unfortunate as it might be, it’s life. It is probably even more so the case for younger people (myself included) when your’s or your friends financial figure go way beyond the norm for your age.
As far as Mr. G, for all I know the guy has no basis to judge you (nor do I, let alone anyone else), let alone it is obvious that his reply is filled with envy, more than any sort of valid critique…So f’ him - he’s clearly a trool.
I think the best thing to do about bad decisions (such as buying something you shouldn’t have, involving yourself with someone you shouldn’t, etc, etc) is just to make the best out of it, learn about it, but don’t dwell on it. You can’t focus on regretting them, just learn, and move on, it’s life, we all make mistakes. I really don’t think buying an extra car, like a $120k M6 is that bad when considering you could have made so many bad mistakes (ie: drugs). On top of that, you really have to learn how to enjoy what you’ve worked hard for, because if not, over time you’ll really lose respect for that hard work and blunder it.
By the way, I loved your note regarding the illegitimacy of MySpace websites, it is about time someone said it.