…another reminder.

Don’t let anyone “must be nice” anything you’ve worked for.

— Antwan Eady (@antwan_eady) August 21, 2021

I’ve had people do the “must be nice” thing to me about my achievements, my ability to travel and just to generally do what I want with my life. A few I blasted. A few I could not or was just too angry to bother with.

Motherfuckers, I came from nothing. Rural North Florida weirdo so despised that many of my own family members wouldn’t even acknowledge me in school. I started life in a trailer park (Paradise Village. It still exists; looks it up.). I signed up to join the army when I was still 17 years old and did five hard years as a paratrooper.

Of course people helped me along the way. Of course they did. But when someone says “must be nice” to me about achievements and experiences I worked so hard for, it’s everything I can do not to enact some North Florida-style percussive justice on their fucking sneering faces.