Took this picture in 2017 when I still lived in the hood

@QueenOfTheNerds it was exactly like that 🙏 one of those moments where life was shit.. but I looked at the sky & was amazed... There's real beauty in the world if we can appreciate it

@ChiefWalksWith40oz
Absolutely.

@SilkenMist well here's a picture of the house itself.



As you can see, this was my house that burned down. The 1st one from the story I wrote that's pinned on my profile. This is where I lived when I left SW way back in 2017 to get my life together

@ChiefWalksWith40oz Quite the contrast.
So you would have been maybe 18 or 19 back then?
With getting one's life together, it's kind of scary how all the sudden at that age, reality decides to slap us awake.

Like one minute we are kids and overnight we are adults.

@SilkenMist I was 19 at that time, yeah. Turned 20 a few months after.
But yeah it's crazy how that works. Those incidents certainly forced me to get off my ass, because before that I didn't care enough about anything. Those experiences taught me so much about life & how important it is.. but also how unimportant everything else is. Like materials or basically anything we own. It's all worthless. Because you can lose it all tomorrow then get it back.

The only thing you never get back is life

@Fuzzle everything has an energy to it. Some are stronger than others & they linger forever

@SlaveEt had to share it with someone 😌 I think I wanted to post it on here back when I first took it too. That was before I left SW

@CommandLine I forgot about it til I scrolled past it today in my history. I remember the feeling when I took it too. It felt so relaxing

@ChiefWalksWith40oz that’s so pretty 😍. I am jealous of the palm trees too.

@iamonfire696 yeah they were everywhere in that neighborhood 😌 always gives me California vibes

@ChiefWalksWith40oz all the trees here are covered with hoar frost