REAL LIFE
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NOVEMBER 2007
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ZONE CAPONES LAST SHOW?
I`m back looking like my normal self again!
BIG & UGLY!
Guns are back at 19" cold and my weight is +220lbs & counting...
Guess to peak for this show fucked up my immune system though
as I’ve been hit by 2 colds in a row now…
So I have not been training much at all lately... still I`m growing!
Yeah kind of crazy how the body reacts to some food & rest after a contest diet!
So was this Nationals really my last show?
Well frankly yeah I think so…
Don’t misunderstand me though… I love bodybuilding…
It’s a big part of me that’s in my blood & something
just as important as breathing to me! I will always be bodybuilding!
BUT I always had this love/hate relationship
to COMPETITIVE bodybuilding!
Actually I think it’s kind of STUPID to compete!
To me competing in bodybuilding is like to compete in music or art!
Most of all people I know who compete in this sport really doesn’t
care how they place in shows…
Nah bodybuilding is so much more to most of us than just getting on stage
to be picked apart by a bunch of judges!
It’s much more a personal journey where you are competing against
yourself & the shows are just YOU showing
THE WORLD what YOU have created!
I also always had a problem with authorities…
& without putting any beef against the Swedish federation
do I have to say that there’s a lot of bullshit among most organized sports?
Let’s just leave it at that…
I don’t want to sound sour or anything as that’s NOT my style!
BUT the most important part of my decision to quit competing
is that I really don’t like either the look of my body when competing
or the things that I have to do to my body to get in contest ripped condition…
Yes I said it before…
In my own eyes I`m at my best some 10lbs above that drawn & almost
“near death” look you have to have to compete these days....and sure
a contest ripped physique may look good but really inside it`s raining...
So yeah I really think the 2007 Swedish nationals
was Zone Capones last hurrah ON a bodybuilding stage…
Sure I may change my mind in the future but for now I`m really out!
BUT NO I AINT QUITTING BODYBUILDING!
Hell no I just started what I called my “PROJECT FREAK” !!
So In MY WORLD I`m just getting started!!!
OCTOBER 2007
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THE SHIT IS GETTIN`TIGHT...
12 days out baby...
Don`t know what I would do without my chewing tobacco?!!!
Nah wont show my physique...not yet...soon...
Can`t really belive that Ive done this six times before
as I feel like a dead man walking.
I`m up to almost 2 hours of cardio a day & my mind is totally gone.
Tryin`to keep everything around me as normal as possible ya know
like keeping the business running, taking care of my family etc...
But really...I have to give big props to Marie for her back.
As I said my mind is gone and I know that this is the time when
I could spoil this diet in a sec cuz thats typically me...
When it comes to those last days before a show Im self destructive by nature...
THIS is the time when I ALWAYS screw up!
So I have decided to do exacly like my buddy Palle tells me...
Basicly were talking on the phone two or three times a day
& hes doing my diet by remote controll from Gotenbourgh
steering me in the right directions...& so far its spot on!
-Zone 12 days ago-
LATE AUGUST 2007
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IM ON A ROLL...
Got so much positive things going on within our sport
right now that its almost sick!!
The Zone shop is doing good, photo shots are in the making,
as well as the making of my DVD!
Add the writing I do for a couple of the major players of our industry
over here in Scandinavia & you get yourself
a more than bussy Zone Capone!
Yeah I`m training like a man posessed & is dieting pretty hard for
the first photoshot thats sceduled on September 11 for a major magazine
(Lets keep what mag a secret until it hit the news stands)
as well as for shooting some more scenes for my DVD!
My weight is down a solid 35lbs since at the beginning of
this year...still with the same messurements of my arms
so it feels like I`m on the right path!
Nah as you can see in the pic above I`m not contest ripped...thats not my goal...
Belive it or not but I never liked my bod in depleted contest shape.
Nah...I like to be in shape with abs & veins but hates the way
I feel & look
when I`m in that shape you need to be in to compete...
...Ya know...flat & dry to the bone...
But I would be lying if I said that I didn`t played around
with the idea to compete at this years Nationals...
I actually belive that with the knowledge that I have these days
I could very well win the light veteran class.
But I decided not to do it...
I`m at the position in this sport over here right now
that I dont really need to compete.
I`m just happy to be living & breathing bodybuilding 24/7
while keeping my name out there, living my dream
& to follow my own goals my own special way!!
EDIT:
The day after Zone wrote this he
decided to do the Nationals after all!
LOL!
JULY 2007
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The 2007 version of Zone Capone...
At 5"6, -200lbs with a couple of 20" guns pumped
It feels like I`m finaly physicaly where I belong!
Nah I`m not contest ripped... thats not my goal...
I`m thinking more fit 4 life...
I will stay looking like this for a loooong time...
Ya know... to walk thru life looking like a cartoon...
THATS my goal!
Will shoot some scenes of me doing some posing at
the old Zone shop for the DVD as well taking some
pix for this website this Saturday...
After that I will put my ass on a plane to take one week off
from EVERYTHING and just chill with my family up in Umeå!
Have a nice summer my friends...I will!
MAY 2007
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So many diamonds in my mouth you
can hardly hear me speak...
Finnaly I bought myself a grill!
Marie just HATES it but I think that I look
pretty sharp with it!
Or what do you say?
LOL!
Life is once again REALY good & It really feels like
Im on the top of the world!
My leg is healing fast & I`m back into hard training,
the business at the Zone shop is on top & I`m starting
to establish myself as a writer whitin the media of
our iron filled subculture!!
From today on I will bump-up my training sessions to
5 times/week & my diet is once again super strict!
The plan is to heal this leg 100% ASAP & get in some seriouse
shape for my DVD & a "secret" photo shot for a big magazine!
I wont get myself super super ripped but maybe like 10lbs
from contest shape or so...so I better get busy cuz its
time for this bling bling badboy to really shine!!
JANUARY
2007
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IM HAPPY!
The
business at the Zone shop is good…
I'm back writing articles for Scandinavians biggest & best magazine
Body & I'm sitting here spitting & rhyming writing a piece while
NAS latest album "Hip-hop is dead" is banging my speakers…
My humidor is so full of exclusive cigars it's about to explode…
I did a cover shot for a local magazine last weekend
& I have two badass projects coming up this spring,
the training for one of those are brutal…
My Marie is beautiful, my daughter is growing & the sky is blue!
AND my doctor just called on my cell telling me that the lump
they found in my right leg wasn't cancer & that I'm here to stay!!
A couple of months ago I found a big lump in my right leg…
My doctor thought it was a tumour so he sent me to the oncology.
Got flashback memorys from the time I spent at the hospital
while my mom was having her battle with cancer…
My head was spinning in panic while I was standing there
in the corridors of the hospital waiting for the tests…
X-rays, more test…all those weeks waiting for the results…
I've seen homiez lying there dead in front of me…
why should I make it?
...I prepared for the worst...
BUT…the lump was not cancer & here I am!
Still in one piece!
And I just called the tattoo parlour up booking a session
for my next tattoo that will say:
"If I wasn't built 4 this I'd be dead by now"!
There's too much power left in this body
& my plan now is to die of old age!
Too much weights' in the gym not to get lift
Too much cigars in the humidor not to smoke èm up
And too much bass in the trunk, so let it bump!!
DECEMBER
2006
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I wanna scream out a huge:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
to yall!
Once
again Im like really happy to be here!
Been thru some drama AGAIN...
...more about that later...lets just say that
sometimes my life is like a crazy fucked-up ride!
Like:
"Drive fast, both hands on the dash...
...roll
the windows down...let the bass out...
...close both of your eyes and hope that you don't crash! "
My daughter is 19 months & a lil`lady now!
Shes been growing so fast & I cant wait to spend this
christmas with her!!!
Guess Santa me & Marie will spoil this kid big-time!!!
Once again:
"Remember to never take anything for granted...
Life is only temporary...Were all just passing thru...
Money & shit aint that important...
Appreciate the love, support and friendships you have...
...because in the end, that is all that matters."
Im doing my last workout (guns) today before
taking that ride up north to Umeå with my family to meet Santa´
to chill, eat all that good food & smoke those phat cigars!
...My last 19 months been a rollercoaster so my
only wish this christmas is peace...
MERRY
MERRY CHRISTMAS
LETS MAKE IT THE BEST EVER!!!
AUGUST
2006
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Aight
freaks, yall already know what it is man!
Its your homeboy Capone growin` again!
5"6 & a +225lbs
10% fat xtended Pump Squad Clique
Keepin it hardcore & real mayne!
Hell
yeah Im back doin`it hardcore again in the old school kind of way!
And with my new found beef & my now +55million hits
to this website Im doing it in a
"Give a damn if I dont win shows, I'm the shit still" kind of
way!
Hell yeah Paul Wall ya better step aside cuz`love
it or hate it
with a +55 mill bodybuilding site Im
the real peoples champ these days!
As
yall know by know Im a couple of sandwiches short on a picnic...
Nah Im just not normal...but I do have a good time & if you get the
chance to
really know me you know that I do laugh at myself all the time!
Im sittin here right know checkin out the website
www.goldteethusa.com for a grill to fit my image!
(Hell yeah Marie is SCREAMING! LOL!)
Imagen
this:
So many diamonds in my teeth you can't see no gold
Plus hundred kgs of beef walkin` the streets an old freak so cool
It's the Pumped Capone punk bitch & Im so tho'ed
Black phat Dodge-Ram, 24, imagine that
Tvs Everywere to see yall when I'm backin back
Elpadrino be smokin on that good shit cigar in the back imagine that
I'm blowin on a maduro that's strong enough to brake an untrained back
Give me an hour at Workoutcenter you never seen it lift as fast as that
And you can keep the beef haters I don't do battle rap
Best step back before you wake up with some bodybuilders in your grill
& get bit By a lil`vampire freak named Trude yeah yall better chill
And give a damn if I dont win shows I'm the shit still!!
LOL!
Hell yeah Im in THE mood today!
Love yall!
JULY
2006
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VACATION!!
Yeah
tomorrow Im flying away to a secret place
somewhere in the world to do nothing but chill & basicly
dont do shit for a week with my 2 ladys Marie & Trude!
I
will only get one week off this year so I wont even train...
Nah...Theres a time & place for everything & this is the time
to heal
this sore body & get some well needed rest from my
sometimes hectic everyday life!
I will just put my ass upp in a beach chair,
light-up a phat cigar, put some bad-ass gangsta`rap
in my mp3 player & just live good in the sun for 7 days!
So to all yall freaks out there:
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!
MAY - JUNE 2006
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The
Swedish summer is HOT!!
After hurting my triceps I have to take it a bit easy
at the gym this summer,...
Yeah I may be crazy but Im not stupid so I mostly play around with
the weights to get this shit healed as fast as possible, so I can start to
build some seriouse beef for next years contest season as fast as possible
again...
Its not like I am down & out or anything & Ive been hurt much
more than this in the past...& really with a daughter like my Trude
who could ever be depressed?
Shes
a little powerhouse thats for sure!
If she dont get to have her beenie on when SHE wants too
she will most deffently let us know that
NO ONE
will ever tell her what to do or not!
Ha! THATS my baby!
Last weekend we went to the local zoo to check out the animals!
And Trude just loved it!
Guess we will have to come back real soon for another visit...
APRIL
2006
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"ITS NOT REVENGE...ITS PUNISHMENT!"
Once again pull up that beach chair & pop you a Becks
beer
cuz I'ma live it up 'til I'm a hundred with a gray beard!!
Yep yep yep...Yours truly turned 40 today!!
40!!
So this one is for the the haters out there...
HA!!
Your NOT getting rid of me!!
Still doing the same shit..the same way!
And its like damned Im so happy to still be here!
And to still be here in one piece
& I guess we all know by now that I never will grow up!
LOL!
More pix & stuff from my birthday are comin`
so check back soon!
Love yall!
ZONE
MARCH
2006
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"Besides God, who the fuck should I fear?
The only one who could stop me is that one in the
mirror.
...I built my career on blood sweat & tears.
And I'm still here, gettin stronger each year...
Cause what don't kill me, could only help build me!"
--Lil' Kim--
Ive seen or tasted my own blood almost every day lately...
Ya know...the taste in the mouth at the gym...Ive
seen it at the tattoo parlor...
...gettin` that nosebleed after a leg session...ya get
the picture...
...guess Im livin` hard...
But blood, sweat & pain are the name of the game if you wanna step
out of the mold...when ya wanna create something more than the ordinary...
When ya wanna look like a
cartoon!
Thats why I went to the gym in the first place...
Thats why I walk around with a shaved head, with the fat earings & necklace...
Thats why I smoke those phat cigars & thats why I got that tribe
a`la Blade tattooed in my neck!
To walk thru life LOOKING LIKE A CARTOON!!!
As I said...what
don't kill me, could only help build me!
But you have to be careful
to not cross the line...
Yes you have to be hard on yourself to grow but at the same time ya gotta
listen to your body cuz it can only take so much stress...
Ya cant get selfdestructive & sloppy...
Cuz most of the time thats the shit that will kill us!
Ya have to know when ya had enough & when ya need to get some rest...
...ya
gotta know when to lay back, chill, live
good & enjoy life!
And boy do I love to live good!
So pull up that beach chair & pop you a Becks beer
cuz I'ma live it up 'til I'm a hundred with a gray beard!!
I will chillin`it up with my daughter this month!
Yes on March 17th it was one year since I cut her umbilical cord!
YES SHE ALREADY 1 YEAR!!
JANUARY
2006
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The war is over...
"Lord,
grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,
the courage to change the things I can, but wisdom to know the difference..."
--DMX--
DMX is banging
in the tapedeck here at the office at the Zone shop
& Im sippin`a home made high quality caffe`latte...
My legs are numb as I blasted èm a couple of hours ago with my
buddys
Ryger & Big-R (or as ryger calls him...Grizzly)
As always after a great workout I do feel good
...but this morning is special...
I fired my shrink
today...
Nah I dont need her anymore...
Im finaly at peace with myself & Im accepting that life is a fucked
place to be at...
Im not perfect...far from it...but I do like myself again & to me
that is winning!
Hell I once again belive that EVERYTHING is happening for a reason!
I can even accept that my homies Heavy-D & Tall-1 are no longer among
the living...
But shit!...
Yall better watch out cuz I got the 2 meanest motherfucking
guardianangels around watching my ass these days!
So I just cant loose!!
Im feeling stronger...bigger...badder....
And Im deffently here to live my life all out to the fullest!
MY WAY!
DECEMBER
2005
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Time to let the war dogs out...
I train with a new guy these days...
Hes name is Richard but I call him Grizzly & as hes one big bear of
a man!
Grizzly aint one of the pretty boys...Hell no!
Hes a hairy 270lbs big guy with a beard & with
a backround in American football!
But Grizzly is also a very smart guy with a good job, lots of brains &
ideas...
...he still got one foot left in the "humans" world out there
& one foot in mine...
But nah Big-R aint normal...hes a freak!
Between sets hes talking about war strategies...about what he read about
Pattons philosophy of going to war...about ancient war dogs & stuff
like that!
Hes just the kind of guy I love to have around me when Im trying to get
all
psyked up at the gym hours before the sun will rise & wake up all
the humans...
Pics are comin`...The Xmas is just
around the corner...
It will be my daughters first one & we will spoil that child BIG TIME!!
Cant belive shes 9 months already! What did we do before we had her?
Shes the most beautiful little stubborn doll around!
As always we will take a ride north to Umeå to meet Santa &
celebrate
with Maries family up there...
I will put a couple of homiez at the old Zone shop & chill & basicly
dont
do shit except eat all that good junk food, smoke those bad ass expensive
cigars & celebrate xmas & life in general!
So from the whole Capone family to all yall
MERRY XMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
NOVEMBER
2005
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Life is a freak show...
Just one block...that’s how
far I live from the gym...
Still I always have a hard time getting home after an all out leg session...
But thats what it takes...fuck the frase "hard gainer"..what
the fuck is that anyway?
Did you really think it would be easy to look like a something out of
a
cartoon book when you was born skinny?
I never ever take anything for granted in life & everything I have
Ive been
working hard to get...& you know what...I like it that way!
Im glad that Im not one of those pretty boys playing pingpong at the gym
while party all night long & getting their food on the table from
mom!
They dont know shit about life..fact is they dont know shit about anything!
I train hard & I train before the sun gets up...when the lazy people
are still in bed!
Why?
Cuz life to me is a freak show & I never ever wanna be one of the
ordinary fat soft
middle age men who
did grow soft, who lost their warrior spirits & died inside!
I never wanna be one of èm suckers looking at me as Im from another
planet
cuz I dont look &/or act like they do!
Lifes short so Im intend to live it to the fullest & Im here to live
it my way!
Hell yeah...Im a warrior & I still got alot of battles left inside
me!
OCTOBER
2005
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And the dog is out, arf arf arf arf...
Just another cold-ass autumn's
morn` here in Gävle, Sweden…
Another week paying my dues at the gym & at the old Zone shop...
Another week living my life with my boots on the ground tryin`not
to worry to much about my lifes past & future...
Guess Im getting old as I sometimes think the best of times are gone forever...
Like back in 95 when I did my first show & all my homiez was alive
& bangin`those weights with me down at the old Mix gym...
But then again...Fuck it...its
here & now that counts...
The past are gone forever & its ok to remember but I wont get stuck
in it!
Life can fucking beat the living shit out of you if you let it...&
I wont!
These days the homiez are
gone...Im training alone...but hey Im still
here!
Im still breathing...still doing the same shit...with the same love...
And Im still doing it the same way as we did it back then...
...keeping my fallen homiez spirits alive
with that oldschool, basic, heavy & ugly training!!
My tricep tear is totally healed...& Im actually stronger than ever
& my weight is a descent lookin`210lbs of tattoos, veins & flesh!
The sale at the Zone shop is still puttin`food on my table & my familly
is healthy & in one piece so what could I complain about?
Life is good....
AUGUST
2005
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I
now turn my back to a chapter in my life...
-MORF BY HELLBOY-
Changes....
Guess that everything suddenly just hit me...
My moms battle with cancer...the change & challenge of now being a
father..
...the sudden loss of two of my best homies, my grand ma`getting a stroke
&
my friend & c/o owner at the shop Lil`l T leaving the country...
Guess nothing will ever be the same again...& I now turn my back
to a chapter in my life...
Im still fighting some harsh demons...battles in my head...
Everything feels fragile...
Like everything we know can fall into a thousand pieces in a blink of
an eye...
...like it all can end in a split second...
It feels like Ive been to war...physicaly Ive made it thru
but something In me is still broken...
Im acting crazy...I
do things that I just dont understand...
Guess its just me copying with the thing we call reality?
Fuck it...
Im pulling myself up by the bootstraps & try to go on...
Atleast Im training...& my wrist is healed...
I train 4 days a week real early in the morning when yall sleep...
...alone...
My friend o Åsa talked me into getting a healing session at a place called
"Zonöga" run by a lady named Marita Eriksson...
Yes I do belive in shit like that but was still suprised about
myself going to that place & even more suprised of what happened!
During the session I had a flashback memory from..hold on now..a past
life!
Yep yours truly was a Ninja fighting some other dude on a field!
The crazy part was that I didnt told Marita this but still she told me
exactly what I did see after the session!
Yeah I know...I know...crazy stuff!
Marita also told me alot of truths about me & my life...
I was totaly out of energy...I had been giving it all away & I had
blocked all my feelings to other paople as a way of survival...
(Not so strange that I only liked the early morning sessions at the gym
& hated the rest of the day!)
Anyway..this may sound weird..but really..after this session of healing
I do feel so much better again!
Dont really know what the future holds for me...
...Im still in the process of recovery...
I had some huge losses...but I have also found some new special people
that has entered my life (You know who you are) including my beautiful
daughter!
Im back up on my feet again
& I hope that Im here to stay for a while...
JULY
2005
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The beauty & the beast
resting in the sun!
My
daughter is growing
& she has really started to show us that shes just as stubborn
as her mother & her father combined!
She does it in style though...I mean who can resist those big blue eyes?
Me myself just came back alone with my
bullterrier Ior
(the rest of my family will stay up in Umeå a little while longer)
to a hotter than hell old Zone shop
after taking it easy in the sun up in Umeå for 2 weeks!
Damned
the heat is a tad to much & is actually killing the sale at the shop...
People have no energy to shop...its just to damned hot!
But I have to be here pimpin`it hard cuz we do got bills to pay
so its just to bite the bullet!
I did smoke a bunch of good phat cigars on my vacation...
...& I had my share of junk food but I also trained hard!
So hard that I actually managed to get myself in some seriouse
trouble when it comes to my training...yep you know me...
...another injury...
I had some minor carpaltunnelsyndrome in my wrist
for the last
10 years but after doing some wrist curls with the 30kg dumbells
it REALLY flared up...& as I write this Im in pain to say the least!
Tried to train thru it but nah..it just cant be done...
The doc put me on some anti inflamatories & will put a needle in the
wrist
in the next week or so if it dont get any better & if that still dont
help
I`ll have to be put under the knife...
But really do you think shit like this will keep me out of the gym?
Nah..you know me better than that!
I can still train legs & the left side of my body!
I`ll be the one arm bandit!
JUNE
2005
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Hard training & vacation!!
Yep
its that time again...
Time to put everything aside & just relax & do shit...
Its time for a 2 week vacation!
Will take my family up to Maries parents in Umeå to chill, eat a
lot of good food,
lay in the sun & smoke a whole bunch of my favourite cigars &
just live well for awhile!
Ofcourse I will train as Im into full heavy growing season as I write
this!
Will train at IKSU gym that is one of the best equiped gyms in the country!
Nah its not the typical gym for a freak like me & the locals always
look
at me strange when I enter the gym...but as Ive said the equipment are
excelent & I just put up the volume in my mp3 player, put on those
dark
sunglasses & just dont give a shit about anyone anyway!
I actually like to be an oddball freak on my vacation!
So to all yall freaks out there...
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!
See yall in 2 weeks!
MAY
2005
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Yo
freaks Im still here & in one piece...
...& both me & my daughter are GROWING!
...But realy...Im a changed man...
Yes
as you know if you are a regular to this site Ive been
thru some tough shit lately...
I guess that loosing 2 close homiez in 4 weeks is more than anybody can
handle...
And yes I did loose it for awhile...but I also know my two late friends
never
ever wanted me to feel & act the way Ive done lately so I decided
to get
back up on my feet & get my ass back into the gym for
some hardcore all out, totally crazy training sessions again...
So yes Im into that growingseason again...& Im training HARD!
And yes I do feel much better doing so...
Music & training are the best medicine in times like these...
So at 07.00 I pop some hiphop into my mp3 player & just go
crazy with the weights all
alone in that old bacement
of Workoutcenter!
I may feel sore & like shit during that time of the day but thats
the way
it should be...it should not be easy!!
Easy is for the "humans" out there...easy is for loosers!
Im standing up on my feet again...& yes Im even walking...
But after cutting the umbilical cord of my daughter & then loose 2
of my best
friends in a matter of weeks I will never be the same inside again...
Ive looked straight into the eyes of death...twice...but looking into
my
daughters wide blue eyes are the closest I ever been to heaven!
I will never look at life the way I did before again...
Im a changed man...
APRIL
2005
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Life
& death...
-Well
really what can I say?
First I see my daughter take her first breath of air, stumbling into this
thing
we call life...to just days after see my long time friend Heavy-D laying
there
dead in
front of us...It surely makes ya wonder what this shit is all about...
My heart is breaking in thousands of pieces when I imagine what it must
be like
for Lil`T who just didnt loose a friend like I did but also the love of
her life...
Once again what can I say?...
Ive said it before but I say it again:
Remember to never take anything for granted...
Life is only temporary...Were all just passing thru...
Money & shit aint that important...
Appreciate the love, support and friendships you have...
...because in the end, that is all that matters.
In this sad times I look into the blue wide eyes of my daughter,
so full of life & realize that Im so blessed to have her in my arms...
& in all this darkness I suddenly feel so happy!
Yes
Im a big dady these days & I love every second of it!
And when I walk with her in my arms at night when she wont sleep
I look out of our windows up to the stars in the night & I suddenly
understand that the creator`s afterall do got a masterplan...
