Hooker Life Hack #9: Beware of the Truth

This post is one of the most successful posts of all time. I will add this bit of advice from an aged hippy. To give a bit of background this individual never worked a 9-5 job in his life, always managing to get hustles like “house manager.” He was drafted for Vietnam but avoided going by climbing a tree and refusing to get down. The fire department had to come rescue him like he was a kitten. He counts these facts as successes, and if you do to you will be interested to know what he says about the truth: the truth might set you free, or the truth could get you twenty years. Sometimes it is best not to tell all you know.

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It may be true that in certain situations the truth can set you free. But in certain other situations telling the truth can get you 20. Years, that is. Behind bars.

Never tell anyone in authority that you do things that are not approved by the establishment. Withholding information is not lying in spite of what people say. It’s merely withholding information. And that’s our prerogative.

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From Harvard to Homeless to Hooker

Harvard Hooker. That was what fake friends called me behind my back. In a way I was not offended. they were only using the information about me that I myself had given them. Also it was a catchy phrase, a phrase I would not mind taking credit for. But I did not make it up it was made up about me. And I am offended because it goes to show the disrespect that I get not because I became addicted to anything, but because of my former profession. As the opoid epidemic rages many more people will share my tale. People once fast tracked for success, are now off track, thoroughly derailed by something so foreign they never thought the topic personally relevant. Addiction? What’s that? Before I looked to educational programs for a peep into a foreign world. I think National Geographic has answers in a tv series. Now I am writing my own series for a new audience who never thought they’d read the words I never thought I’d write.

My people need to hear from someone who is like them, someone who had the gamegrigged in her favor, yet beat the odds and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Then again, there were issues, certain obstacles that kept me out of the top 1% of society. No silver spoon here. People want to hear that story too. Coming up the hard way, to success, then back down again as if it’s true that blood really can tell–the way the lady that adopted me said it would.

Failure is an event not an identity. I have to believe that. Just being stable enough in mind and sheltered status is still huge accomplishment. Hey, I can make my dreams come true with the right dreams. And when I do, you’ll be inspired by my success after you grow accustomed to viewing me as a fellow human. You don’t know that yet. But if this blog humanizes me through words, you will.

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