Latest / Dope Discussion With Normthegreat1 🔥 / Honesty and Growth in Relationships: Lessons from Life
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- Mr Normthegreat1: Welcome to Dope Discussions, where faith isn't quiet and truth isn't comfortable. We're having the conversations most people avoid about purpose, pain, leadership, relationships, identity, and the real walk with God. No pretending, no performance, no watered down gospel, just raw growth, real convictions, and kingdom conversations. and Kingdom conversations that challenge you to become who God called you to be. And now, here's your host, Norm the Great One. Yo, what up, man? You already know who it is. It's the great one. We back in the building. Yes, Lord, we back in the building. Another day, another opportunity. You know, that's how we start everything and every day and every show by giving thanks to the Most High God for all his many blessings, his grace, his mercy, all his goodness that he's throw upon us, man. And one of the biggest blessings of them all to allow me to be back behind the mic and in the building one more time. Family, we back in the building, man. Peace, love, man, I hope y'all everybody was well. I hope everybody had a great week so far. Hope everybody had a good weekend. Hope the polynean tear you up too bad. But yeah, man, we back in the building. You know, we do, it's another Wednesday, we're gonna get you over to hump to the weekend. You know how we do every Wednesday, if God willing. But hey yo, check this out, man. I was back home over the weekend, man, and. Had some good time with family, man. Went bowling on Saturday, catching up, just conversating. Just having a good time, man. You know, just hanging with family, man, and enjoying time without the nonsense, the BS, no drama, nobody acting funny, none of that, man. And then we went to church on Sunday to my grandmother church, and church I grew up in as a kid, man. To be at church and fellowship with family and old friends and stuff and everything, man, it's always was a beautiful thing. rolled down to the beach and came back and had a meal with the family and cut a fool and laugh and joke. My uncle's frying fish in the back, just enjoying life, man. It was a good time, man. It was always a good pleasant time around family and loving on each other and embracing each other without all the negativity because the stigma around family these days is like... forget family, cut family off, and da-da-da, or whatever the case may be. And everybody got their own cross to bear. Everybody got their own story, you know what saying? I thank God that's not my story, you know what saying? ⁓ But like I said, man, I enjoy myself, really enjoy myself, man. I can't complain, man. I'm grateful for my family, you know. We don't always get along. We don't always see eye eye like anybody else, man. But I'm grateful for them. I pray for them. I love them. Just grateful for them in all, man. Family all across the nation, the world, and the land, man. I'm just praying. for families, know. ⁓ That's a big thing for me, man. Family time is important, man, you know, because nobody get it done by themselves, man. It don't matter how you figure, how you slice it or whatever you think, you can do it by yourself, You know, you always can use a helping hand. Two heads are better than one, man. You can put your head together and come up with a plan or whatever the case may be. Somebody else might see something that you don't see. or they might have a better idea and a better way of doing something further than your imagination or where your mind went at that time. Because sometimes you're trying to figure something out, man, and you're sticking it, sticking it. You can get burned out and somebody can come with the simplest thing and make it make sense. You're like, wow. I've been pounding my head thinking that trying to figure something out all day, and you just came and. throw that out there and it connect just like that. So like I said, man, it was a great time, man. Hope y'all had a good weekend, mine was pretty good, man. But we got a good show, man. Let's kick this thing off, man. You know, I saw this video on IG, Facebook, one of it, I don't remember, don't recall. And this young lady was talking about dating with intentions and a help meet and a guy with a plan somewhere in that order, not directly in that order, but. That was the gist of the whole thing. And I want to speak on that for a little while from y'all gonna call me a simp or whatever. I don't care about that. The truth is the truth. We're in an era in a time where to me personally times have changed and the roles reversed and so many different things where as though when you in the dating market and trying to, if you're dating with intentions to be married long-term, whatever your case may be. It don't matter how they try to flip it and how you try to flip it in 2026. The foundation for marriage and relationships still gonna be the same, man. And at the end of the day, you dating seriously with intentions and to be married and you go out there as a man and do the work and work on yourself and build up your empire and you go out there and you invite a woman into your world and... invite her into your world. She coming in as a help me, you know what saying? Now, when we hear that word help me, I'm not saying she's a pushover, a stomp over. She don't have a voice. That's not what I'm saying. Cause that's not what is it about. Help me as a helper to help you on your journey with your passion, your plan to help you reach goals and vice versa. But my thing is a lot of the issues are coming in where a woman is coming in to be a help meeting, ready to go, and, cause all the conversations you had and the talks and all that about this is that, okay? When we first started this year ago, you know what saying? So what's up with this? What's up with that? What's up with that? Because at the end of day, as a woman or whatever, she wanna know what the plan is, direction we're going, you know what saying? But it's hard to help somebody do something when they're not doing anything. And oftentimes guys get into that situation where they... Instead of being honest and said, I don't have a plan, I need to go work on myself or whatever the case may be, they will throw something out there just to hush the woman up. And then the woman will come back to you later on, a few months later down the road with what you said and asking questions about when you're going to stop, when you're going to do it and where we're going to live, how the case may be, whatever we're going to do, where the kids are to go to school, all those different things. Now you're frustrated. How you do is nag, no, she's not nagging. She's inquiring because... You gave her the task and the idea, but what you gonna do? So once you said that, a good solid woman, she done start running that in. So she gonna go out there, a good woman, and type it up, look it up, and see what's the best lawn equipment and the quotes and what's this, that, and the third. Then she go look at barbershops and hummus this and what you gonna need and this, that, and the third. So she did all that. and did some research and all that stuff. And she excited to share that with you. But on the flip side, she bring it to you looking like, is this? And now you're gonna flip it on her for doing what she's supposed to do all because that's not your plan that you really had. You just said something to hush her up. The thing is gonna pass by and she not gonna bring it back up. We have to start getting honest and be honest with people. Now, at the beginning. When you see something don't line up with what somebody is saying to you, you have a right to ask questions, ladies or whoever. To ask questions, yo, this my life, where this going? And the minute that you don't see it lining up, you have that conversation of not no change. You got to get up out of there. But what happens is... Women tend to stay longer than they should. My angelus says, someone shows you who they are, believe them. People don't normally change unless something happened to force them to change. And if they don't have nothing, no consequence to make them change, they're not gonna change. That's who they are to their core. So what you have to do is be true to who you are and get the strength and the courage to walk away from something. Because oftentimes you hear one person would be in a relationship. person, two people in a relationship, one want to get married, you don't want to get married. So I'm wasting precious time, years, months, days with somebody that I know, they told me they don't want what I want. So why am I invested in that? Instead of walk away from this now, take my blow, go work on myself, get better, do what I got to do so when God bless me and that time come to meet somebody that's want to be married. and wanna see you in that light, you'd be better off. But what people do is they'll stay there when a man tell you he not married, he don't want, he don't want this. But for some reason or another, some people mind, they believe that they can change somebody mind or it gonna be different for them than versus anybody else. And they always do five, six, seven years down the road with regrets and nothing because the first thing somebody gonna say is, know what saying? You don't have time to entertain something that's not what you want. You know what saying? You don't have to stay around and take scraps of what somebody giving you. And that's male or female, you know what I'm saying? That's both sides of the fence. It ain't just for one. If somebody don't want what you want, why not move around? It's okay. But this ain't going nowhere. Why waste time? Tomorrow, promise to nobody to sit around with somebody that you know for sure. ain't going the way you going, I don't want what you want. That don't make sense because now you're gonna get mad and flip out and say, ⁓ they waste your time. They play, you you played yourself because you know good and well, that's not what it was. And somebody would say, well, why don't he leave? That's a good question because at the end of the day, if you know somebody wanna be married and you don't wanna be married, as a man, set them free. Hard but it's fair, tight but it's right, but you don't shouldn't have to sit there and get the benefits of a person. that you don't wanna be with like that. Because at the end of the day, what's the point? There's no point in that. You're wasting time sitting around, hunching and just wasting time doing stuff that ain't gonna matter. And just to come back and have regrets later on, I'll probably make some kids. Now the kids are suffering because y'all ain't together like that. And it's gonna be an issue. So why not prevent yourself from the nonsense? When it comes to dating, intentionally be honest about what it is that you want. Be honest. It's not... If it's nothing, then say it's nothing, you know? And go with that, roll with it, run with it, and be honest with it, you know what saying? It costs you nothing to be honest. Nothing. at all. Because at the end of the day, it will save people a lot of time and effort. Because now on the flip side, when someone was honest with you and tell you what they want and what they don't want, if you take that deal and move forward and proceed to deal with that person, you have to deal with the consequences of that because they were honest with you. I see that a lot too. People would say, and they would tell you that, ⁓ Oh, this, that, and the third, when you come to find out, they got pregnant or something and they wasn't even in relationship. They were just out there, what do call it? Sneaky Lincoln and hunching and doing all type of stuff. Well, they got the thing where I saw on a girl page a little while back, my man that ain't my man. I was like, oh my Lord. So we're at a place now to where you know that ain't your man, but you're giving him man privilege. I'm not trying to disrespect nobody or say that I'm I'm better than nobody, but I want to know what they'll say about you. What does that say about you? Does he feel the same about you? Do we have the same thoughts about you that you have about him? But you're giving them the privilege in your body. Like that's your man. Your body ain't worth more than that. I'm just asking. I'm just asking. Your body is not worth more than that. Just to be giving it away just for somebody that's have fun. I don't get it. And like I said, to get back to the original point that I was making, that a man should have a vision and a plan to know where he's going with his life. And if you don't have a vision and a plan, you don't need to invite a woman in your life. I mean, because if you just having fun or whatever you want to do out there, wasting people time, that ain't right. But my thing is, after a certain age and time, and you should want to date and... intentionally, everybody don't want to be married, I get that. But if that's y'all agreement, that's fine. But even in that emphasis, you still have to have a plan, some goals and stuff you want to achieve as a man. And if you don't have that, you're like a ship without a sail. You don't have no direction. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. That's in the Bible. You see what saying? Because that mean the wind blow, you over here, you over there, you have to anchor somewhere. And as a man, you have to have direction. because a good woman coming into your life will expose that because she gonna ask questions. She gonna push you to be better. It might come off as nagging, but if she link up with you, she wanna know as a leader of our family or whatever, where we going? What are you doing? Where you taking us? You might be leading us in the ditch. I don't know where I supposed to be the passenger. I need to see, I need to be checking your blind spot and I'm supposed to be helping you, but I can't help you do nothing. What are the plans for the family? What's this? She got a right to ask questions. That's why communication is so huge. But I think that a lot of people struggle with communication because they don't want to have the hard conversations. Avoidance is not healing. Avoiding stuff never gets you nowhere because it's just going to get bigger and bigger and you will have a stack of stuff that you avoid and you're just going to explode one day. because you try to avoid it and run from it. Sometimes you just sit like in the last time. Last week I said, sometimes you just have to stand up to it and have the conversation. Sometimes you have to break your own heart. Sometimes you want things to work so bad and sometimes it's not the will for it to work. That person might've just came to teach you something and what you learned from it. You take it with life and grow and get better. You know what saying? Everybody ain't meant to stay. Everybody ain't meant to stay and everybody ain't meant to be. Everybody don't deserve a chance either. You know what saying? Because at the end of the day, oftentimes you're staying things too long and waste time. Waste time. That's why I said it's best for people to, when they get together, have conversation. You know, instead of being so quick to jump in the sheets and be out there hunching, you need to have conversation. And I know you're not gonna get to know that person in the first conversation, second conversation, but you trying to learn them through conversation, besides body rocking, or what they can do back there in the bedroom, or what they like to do with that, their favorite position. What's your favorite Bible scripture? How about that? Ask somebody, dog, what's their favorite position? What's your favorite book in the Bible? When the last time you pray, do you believe in God? Do you go to church? What church your mama go to? What's your denomination? You're a non-denomination? You go to Church of Christ, you're a Baptist, what are that? Let's talk about that. all this old sneaky lanking and wasting time and just out there just being nasty. Sneak to Ephesians. Sneak to Luke. Sneak to Roman. How about that? Pray to God to take that spirit away from you so you can focus on things that matter. Because I'm telling you, family, you don't want to get to a point in life to where you're looking back at opportunities you could have had, but you didn't take your life more serious. I'm all for a person living a life and and join us all from time to time, but responsibly and in moderation. know, I mean, at the end of the day, I wasn't always in this position. I wasn't always with this mindset. I was a knucklehead out there making dumb decisions and doing crazy things myself. But at some point in time, you get tired of hitting your head against the wall in the same spot, you know? You should want to do better. As you get older and you mature, you get less and trust me. Excuse me, trust me. I got a lot of lessons, man, for being foolish and making dumb decisions. You live and you learn from them. It ain't supposed to make you better not keep repeating the same class. But some people, see them over and over and over and over. They're repeating the same lessons over and over. Like, they're not understanding why they're in this place. And the thing that gets me that a lot of people sit back and say, I don't even know how I got it. ⁓ you know. Yeah, you know exactly how you got where you at. You just don't want to admit it, you in denial, but you know exactly how you got to where you at. And the funny thing about what people, they can tell you how everybody else got where they at, but they ain't gonna tell you how they got there. You know, you ever notice that when somebody tell you a story, they was talking about somebody else? I think sometimes, to be honest with you, I think some people be talking to third party because there's no way in God's green earth. You know, you can talk about everybody else. What about you? Do you know, I'm quick to ask somebody that. Well, what you been doing? If they've been doing all that. What been doing? I don't get it. I don't get it. So my thing is, stop wasting time and start playing with your life, man. Life can be good and life can be more bundly, but you have to do the work and you have to understand that it's okay to value yourself and say, no, I deserve more. Not on an arrogant tip, but I'm not gonna settle for less or settle for the nonsense that you're gonna give just to be with somebody. And oftentimes people settle for less just to sit there with somebody and they ain't getting nothing, nothing but wasting time and the headache. And they know for sure that that ain't going nowhere. They know for sure it ain't going nowhere. But what they do, they continue to play with it. They continue to stay right there and hoping and praying to get better. It ain't gonna get no better, miss. It ain't gonna get no better, sir. It is what it is. You don't have to try to pray for it to get better. In some situations, God will intervene and know, prayer changes things and prayer change people. But a person got to want to do better. You can't want better for a person more than they want for themselves. And I think oftentimes people get into situations and they allow their emotions and their feelings to get into it to where they get them solved stories where People telling you, ⁓ everybody left me at 12, just in a third, my dog dies, somebody steal my guinea pig, and all this other nonsense, and my mama never liked me. I mean, this is a bunch of stuff, and you probably fell for it. I don't wanna be, then you start to be like your good hearted self. Like, I don't wanna be like everybody else and walk out on them. I tell them I'ma be different. Yeah, you should have ran faster. You as different should have ran faster. But yeah, I mean, I think that I said before, man, communication, communication, communication, understanding, understanding. You have to go into things with a clear mind. You have to do the work. You have to be able to listen to what somebody else is saying, put yourself in their shoe when they're talking and try to understand. Everything is not a nag, fellas. Everything is not a nag. Everything is not. But you should sit and listen and have a conversation. Turn everything off and sit down and have conversations. And talk, have real conversation. Don't play around. If something on your mind that you want to get off, have that conversation with your partner. Have the conversation. Don't wait till a month later, two months later, then something come on. and you just throwing out wild stuff out there, don't do that. Have that conversation. I don't understand, know, I felt like X, Y, Z, woo-da-woo, whatever. Have that to get clarification before you lean to your own understanding. Lean not to your own understanding, but in all ways acknowledge Him. Acknowledge God because see, we already know our feelings. Feelings ain't fact, but it can be validated. But at the end of the day, some people are ran by emotion off their feelings. you know, feelings go up and down, man. You know, it changed like the weather. And you make a decision and go off what you're feeling in that moment. But then once you done said something or did something, you can't walk it back. Now you're sitting there looking stupid in the face because it's like, dang, man, I don't really think it was that bad. Maybe I could have said it a different way. Maybe I should have just waited till I cooled down. Or whatever the case may be. You know what you should do. And that's that. But oftentimes we get lead by our emotions to go and we just ready to rah rah rah rah rah. And then what that get you? It gets you nowhere because when you go to a person and you're trying to be heard, and one thing about people when they think they're not being heard, or whatever the case may be, they wanna get louder and they wanna get more disrespectful or crazy or say something because in that moment, they want you to feel what they feel. So now they're about to do something off the edge or something that caused way more problems than what you already got. And like I always tell people all the time, from a person that used to say crazy stuff all the time, you have to be mindful what you say. Even when you mad, you have to sit down, cool down, and come back to it, even if that's what you got before you to do that, because cooler heads prevail. I'm telling you, man. Many times people get this awful situation with their mouth because they say something out of anger or they say something because of that moment and now they can't take it back. But one thing about words, man, you know, back in the day we said sticks and stones would break my bones, but words would never hurt me. Words would never hurt, something like that. But at the end of the day, I disagree with that, Words can hold weight and... Words can do something like I always give the illustration of a water balloon and a safety pin. If you take that safety pin and you stick that balloon, it's not a big hole, but water gonna start leaking out. So when that water dripping out, drip, drip, dripping, it's still there. They can apologize or whatever, but that hurt's still there because your mind, we human. So in the middle, in the mix of the day or at work or. laying in the bed or whatever, you saying, damn, they say that to me? And then, you know, and you saying to yourself, that's what they really think of me? That's how they really view me? Wow, that's crazy. And you know, one thing about the devil, they say, I don't mind, it's the devil playground. So at the end of the day, you know, when you got that commercial, you seen cartoon with the good angel of God on this side and the devil on the other side of shoulder and boy, they talking. Now once you sit there, start to open the mind up with them crazy thoughts and the hands to the wheel start rolling, the devil will amplify that thing on you. Like, yeah, you know how they'd say that. They mean he or she mean to say that. That's what they've been thinking about you. Think about how they've been acting last week or something. Think about this, that, and the third. So now you just be starting to sit there instead of leave it alone and stop meddling. Once you done let your mind start going there, now everything start to make sense now. Now you're clear and. All this side kidding, you got all this power into it. I had a dream a week ago or something like that. I knew something was right. And back then, when back in two years ago, in my birthday, you just started connecting all dots and stuff. And you're like, yo, and if you don't check yourself and correct yourself, you're gonna go down that long rabbit hole and you're gonna have no way to get yourself back out because you're going just digging, digging, digging. to validate them crazy thoughts that you had in your head that you tell yourself because you operates off your feelings and your emotions. And you done fired off and said some things that you can't take back. And now it's just to the place to where... the idle mind and you can be on either side, the person that said it or the person that received it. Now, sometimes the person that said it, they don't have no conviction, have nothing. They probably said it and just keep on moving like, ain't nothing to it, you know what saying? But if a person got some conviction and some self-awareness, they probably shouldn't say it. They'll probably hold it and sit on it. Probably want to fire it off, but they know the best thing to do is hold it and sit on it and have a conversation. You know what mean? But some people figure I'm grown, I'm big, I'm bad. I should be able to say what I wanna say. Yeah, you should be able to say how you wanna say, but it's about how you saying it, you know? You can get your point across by being cordial, being kind, being nice with it and stuff, instead of sitting there trying to be angry and nasty with it. Because in that moment, you took the conversation to a whole nother level because at that point, they're looking at the other person looking at you like, who you think you talking to, bruh? Or sis, who you think you talking to? I'm not them. And like I said, now the whole thing, them switch to something else. and switch all the over because now everybody defending themselves. And once everybody get to that place to where they're defending themselves, we done lost track of what's really important. The main reason why we're having the conversation because everybody in defense mode. Like I said before and I'll say it again, Honestly, I think everybody should journal. Have a journal and write. You know, write when you're having thoughts or whatever the case may be. How your day went, what you liked about your day, what you didn't like, things you need to work on. You know, you can have a journal and you're writing down things throughout that day. Something occur and how you handle it, will you please with it, displease with it, and things you need to work on and get better. Like I always say, my mama always told me, man, you can BS everybody else, but you better tell yourself the truth. So at the end of the day, you get that journal and you get down in there and you start telling the truth because the truth will make you free. You don't want to be bound with lies. because at the end of the day, you keep telling lies, lies, lies. Free yourself. Sometimes you gotta free yourself from yourself. Because if not, you stay embodied with the lies, the lies, and you gotta tell more lies, and this, that, and the third. The truth will make you free, man. Do the work. We all can work on ourself and get better. We all can do something better. I don't have all the answers, trust me, and I don't want all the answers. But like I said before, we all can work on ourself and be better. If somebody says nothing wrong with them, go the other way, please. Leave them alone and go the other way. Because that's a person that's in denial and that's a dangerous person. dangerous because they have. They don't have no humility, no conviction or anything to say. I got things I need to work on. I don't know about nobody else out there, but me personally as a man, a man of God, ⁓ a friend, a father, all this, I got things I need to work on. Because every day I'm trying to get better, man. Every day I'm trying to get better. Every day I'm striving to get better. And that's the goal. And that should be everybody's goal, you know what saying? to be better than what you was last year, last month, yesterday. Who worked, Jay-Z said it best, even though I don't listen to his music no more. Who worked this hard to be in the same place? Like if you putting the work in to be better, man, you should enjoy the better version of you. Because one thing about it, man, you can always look back and see where you came from, You know how it used to be, like at the end of the day, man, sometimes. You sit back and think about how you used to live, how you used to carry yourself. You'd like. That was crazy, That was so crazy. I was, I mean, just sitting there thinking about it, I was kind of embarrassing myself, man. But I thank God you had to grow and get better, you know. It's a process. And I believe wholeheartedly that most people want to do better. I ain't gonna say they don't know how. I might say, I take that back. I'll say, it probably don't know the first steps. You have to make the first steps. It's starting your mind, you make your mind up that you're and tired of sick and tired of living the same life, going in the same circle, doing the same thing you want better. Right there is the start. That's the start, that key to start the engine right there. So now you're just doing things and you start off with little simple things, Doing better, like reading books or self-help books or when you're journaling, you're down stuff with intention that makes sense. and you're going back and work on it. And then you start to ask God to help you to be better, help you to be a better man, help you to be a better father, better friend, better coworker, whatever it is, man. God will see you through, man, but you have to invite Him in. You have to invite Him in. Don't ever think you're too far gone for God to put a work in you, God can use anybody, I hope you're available to let Him use you. Cause at some point in life, you don't let the devil use you enough. The devil don't lose you enough, now he wanna drive. You got to get that joker out your car, or get him out your life, because he's gonna wanna drive. And let me tell you something, once you get that rascal in that driver's seat, he's gonna drive you to hell. He's really gonna drive you to hell. Because the devil don't have no respect to a person, because the devil just seeking. true and full, through and through, seeing who can he defile. And I'm willing to bet you these days and time, he don't have to seek hard, because so many people making themselves available for him to use them as a vessel. They don't care. It's sad, but they put this up in situations right in the pathway and they volunteer because of the hardness of their heart and don't want to do better. At some point in time, you gotta leave certain things alone, You gotta wanna do better. You gotta wanna man up. You gotta woman up. Man, I'm tired of this, You ain't tired of going out every weekend and just getting drunk, having a hangover, and God knows what else you've been doing. But you ought to thank God for the distance that he brought you from. You gotta thank him. He may not be where you wanna be and have everything you feel you need or want or whatever, but you gotta thank God for where he brought you from and thank him for keeping you to see another day. Because believe it or not, man, when I think about life, it's a lot of people that I went to school with, man, that's probably a couple years old, younger, whatever. A lot of people has passed away or locked up in jail for a long time, man. And it's sad, man. It's sad, man. When you think about how many people have just passed away on your age, you know what saying? You at the school, like you know these people personally, That's why I say I want to go back to what I said when I went back home, The old neighborhood, like the ghost town, The old neighborhood used to be like a great spot, man, for the basketball courts and just enjoying life, man, you know. When you go down back home, it just seemed like things so, back then when everything was the old neighborhood, it just seemed like everything was so far away, man. Like them days been gone, man. But like I said, I thank God every day, man, for the way that I came up, man, because I love everything about it, man. You know what saying? Like they say, you see posters on social media about people saying they believe that they was born in the wrong generation or whatever. I be like, that's me. I think I came a little too, I think I'm grateful for the time I came, but I think it came a little bit more earlier than that. It's all good, but this stuff we got going on now, nah, I don't want no part of that at all. No sari bob, they can keep that. Nah, this generation here, boy, it's a whole nother level, man. It's a whole nother level. I'm grateful for the generation that I came up in, man, and the way I came up, just to piggyback from my circle back to the beginning. Going back home, man, and see like where the old stores used to be like, and you're riding through the neighborhood and you're like, yo, such and such used to live there. Man, we used to sit here. I mean, it's just like the memories, man. It just takes you all the way back. Like, man, that's dope, man. You know what saying? Just to ride by the old basketball court, the baseball field, you know, I remember my pops used to play baseball. God bless his soul, man. and to just be out there on Sundays after church, man. Just going different areas playing ball, man. It's just like life was so different and it was so great, man. You know what saying? And even with that being said, man, I thank God every day, man, for the opportunity and just to see life this far and thanking Him and praying Him in advance for many, many more years. You know what saying? Many, many more years, man, you know. think that's what it sounds like, like to be at peace, you know? When you at peace with things and you at peace with life, man, you're more open to liking things and more easy to be like, okay, well, a lot of things, man, it don't even matter to me, man, to be honest with you, man, it's like, whatever. I mean, if that's what works for you, I'm happy for you, man. I'm not at a place to where I'm letting nobody take my peace away. ⁓ I'm going back and forth with nobody over nothing. You got it. I mean, I thank God for that, because back in the day or whatever, man, I was ready to go, whatever, how about that? Now it's like, yo, bro, we ain't gotta do this. We ain't gotta do this. You got it. You got it. You the man. You the big dog. You know what saying? I don't care about none of that, man. I don't care about none of that. Me personally, all I care about now is doing the will of God. and bringing people to the light and saving souls, man. That's all it's about for me, man. And just living up to the standard that God has for me and whatever capacity that looks like. You know, that's just what it's about, man. I don't have time for none of the nonsense and none of that, man. It's just about doing the will of God. And that's all it's about for me, honestly. I don't want to do nothing else but the will of God. know, when He leads me, I'll follow. You know, like I tell people all the time. I know people I've been like, you always talk about him, man. I can't talk about him enough. I can't talk about him enough because I'm grateful and I know what he done for me, So like I said, yeah, man, how can you not be grateful? There's no way I can't be grateful at all. I gotta be grateful. That's all I know. Grateful and humble. Because at the end of the day, God will see you through. I promise you. God will definitely see you through, I don't care what nobody says, what nobody do, or whatever the case may be. Teeing God all the way to the end. To the end, Like I said, man, that's all I wanted to come on here today. Drop this off on y'all, man. I hope y'all enjoy the show. Just with a little something, man, from my week, recap from my weekend and recap on the video I saw and just start talking about life in general and stuff, man. Hope y'all enjoy the show, man. I appreciate all the love and the support. I really do, man. It's an honor. It's a privilege, man. I thank God for the opportunity. And I just pray that he continue to bless me with. show ideas and all that stuff. Like I said, man, if you got an idea for the show or something you want to talk about, if you even want to come on, email me at normthegreat843 at gmail.com. Normthegreat843 at gmail.com. Holler at me, man. I'd love to hear from you, man. Tell me what you like. Tell me what you don't like. Whatever the case may be, email me. Holler at me, man. I'd love to hear from you, man. I really do. Like I said, man, I pray you all enjoy the rest of your week. Hope all is well, all hearts and mind are clear. Same time, same place, next week, if God willing, peace. Thanks for listening to this episode of Dope Discussions, where faith isn't quiet and truth isn't comfortable. Continue on this journey with us, like and share on your favorite podcast platform. And for more real kingdom conversations, be sure to subscribe so that you never miss an episode.