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After you eat the same crap every single day for five to ten years, you'll get a better idea of what I'm talking about. Well, yes I do regret about what I did back in the days as far as stealing gang-banging and messin around but I don t dwell on it because I can t do nothing about it except to try to make up for it which I am doing now. You could do so much better by being yourself and different. I grew up around the gang. That also means he wouldn t be involved because he knows it will somehow affect others at some time, negatively . I shot a nigga's mammy crib up a hundred times. I never took that seriously until now after all this time in prison.

It kills me that he now tries to impress me into thinking he s hard. Most gangs are not like that. It's got a picture of the Virgin Mary, a couple of votive candles, and a teddy bear wearing sunglasses. But Li'l Cottle was serious serious. There is so much you could do with your life. First find your purpose, then create a plan, then put it into action, and make it real. Your moms care about you, or at least for you. I want to know why gangsters need to get a tattoo when they get in the gang. I don t know if she has but regardless, if she has or hasn t, she s only sweating you because she cares about you and you should be thankful you have a parent who cares about you that much. There are no words on how I could explain those feelings. Did a lot of stupid junk for no reason. I'm 13 years old I have a boyfriend and I'm pregnant he wants to stay in his gang that he's in so the question is what should I do?

Would you think gang life is fun. They are a lot more organized, which is a lot more dangerous than any other gangs. I m the youngest out of two brothers and, to tell you the truth, most of the things I know, I learned from my older brother. The self-prophesy came to pass.

It is no walk in the park. Still, as bad as I wanted to change, I didn't know how. Now at least, I can choose the type of person I will die as. When joining a gang, my outlook changed to the negative. In the melee that followed, Junior took two bullets, one to the abdomen, the other to his head. As an attempt to initiate themselves (which can t be done), gangs were created.

The only thing is that with some, it takes a lot longer to happen. This was due to my not feeling I could trust the advice from those trying to help me and because I thought I had to find all the answers myself. Good Luck and be yourself not what others want you to be. You need to put your priorities in order. To me it doesn t matter I m down even though I m not jumped in. It is hard and mind-blowing to be responsible for ending a life, for taking away someone's son and brother. When I was young I never thought of them and figured that was something I would have to deal with later. Pull up in a truck, big B on it. Pull up in a foreign whip, shit stain on 'em. It's an all-too-familiar story: a regular kid thoughtlessly caught up in testosterone and territoriality, the victim of adolescent impulse. I thought about joining gangs and running away and getting locked up.

If that is true then I can bet you are living in shame everyday you wake up. Keep up head up n stay strong. Follow your dreams, make then come true. I let down many people, and of course me. I mean like, I don t know how it is where you live nowadays but I do know over here in Jersey these bangers are officially throwing their lives away for real. Yes it was very hard and scary because I was always on my feet never really knowing who or what was coming my way. "WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME GANG! "He was fatalistic, he knew he was going to die, " says one girl who had known him since they were both 11 years old. I ve been in prison now for 8 years behind gangbanging. And I dare you to be different. I just started to walk, until tears just sprang out of my eyes. "Holla at me, " Raines instructed. So I guess there is a sole purpose of joining a gang after all: that is, to ruin your life.

I have run into a couple of cuzzins and seeing the look on their face when they saw me in this environment being a whole different person was something I ll never forget. There's no doubts in my mind that if I wouldn't have gotten incarcerated, I would still be in the gang. No you should not gang bang or run away or even do drugs. I was a rep for my hood out on the street. The guy you are with may have a disagreement with someone. Me too, being in a gang can tire you down on many levels. See, I'm the first one to go to college in my family and when I left she said, "Weensie, if you screw this up, I'll kill you. " The bottom line is to ask yourself, is a relationship worth all of the other baggage you get from it somewhere down the line, maybe even years later. "Couldn't they put him on a cot or something?

Now in hindsight I can honestly say I don t condone the choices we made and I m sure my brother would agree that if we had any regrets in life, our biggest one would be joining our neighborhood, but harboring regrets would just eat at us and it is kind of useless. Otto S. The first thing that comes to mind is that I have several gang-related tattoos that are all over my body. Prison no longer rehabilitates; this sort of thing is strictly up to each of us - to find what works so we don t get discouraged and fall back once out on the streets. Sincerely - R. S. You wanted to know what s the purpose of being in a gang. You re about to be responsible for another life.

A man's dreams of bringing up his kids along with his brother's are suddenly no more. Get into GED classes.