by Genaro Patterson
Hello Future, yes you, every child who resides in the juvenile detention center, you are the future and the world is depending on you to help make it a better place than what it was when you first came. You might not realize it, but your existence could have a drastic change on how we live here on earth.
You could be the next miracle doctor, the next senator, the president, the next Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or James Patterson, the best fiction writer in the business.
Now is the time to make your change, to take life serious, to decide what it is you want to be in life.
My name is Genaro Patterson, I no longer have the luxury of getting my life together at a young age, why?
Because I kept waiting and waiting which caused me to keep losing. If I had made the right decision when I first went to the juvenile detention center I wouldn’t be incarcerated right now in my 50’s. But even now I’ve decided to make the change, which means I’m very behind in life.
But you are in the perfect place to capitalize on your situation. Although you might feel pain, neglect, and suffering, you are actually ahead of the game. Stop admiring the nobodies, and look up to the somebodies of the world. Stop believing if you ain’t got a body you ain’t no-body.
That’s a short-lived life and nobody will remember you. The somebodies are remembered 100 years after their death and you can be the next one. Although you are the future and I’m the past, one of the went and gone, I still strive to be better. I write books, and maybe you could too. We definitely have time to. Utilize your time wisely; make everyday a day where you educated yourself. I write five to ten pages a day. In thirty days that’s either 150 to 300 pages; that’s a book. thirteen books published on amazon.com.
My latest release is entitled “Aaron Hernandez: Sacrificed It All”. You can do the same, and I do it while I’m incarcerated. Create your own checks, take control of your destiny, turn your suffering and pain into success. Remember, you are what you think; you just need to think positive, not negative.
Don’t settle on an eighth-grade education. Don’t settle on being the hardest gang banger. That’s small thinking. You can be so much more in life. Therefore, I ask you to make better choices, and while you’re stuck incarcerated, learn to write by just writing. I enjoy it, and I have five star ratings. I didn’t become who I wanted to be in life, but at least with books I will be remembered 100 years after I’m dead. But only because people will still be reading my books.
Take heed, I’ve been there and there’s not a day that goes by where I didn’t wish I would’ve made better decisions. Don’t be ordinary, change your path and become extraordinary. Make the future better.