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As I lie here wondering what life holds for me, it dawns on me that my life might be just a little bit more than I imagined. It is amazing, isn’t it? To know that I lived so many years walking the path of destiny upon this baked earth, only to realize now, when I face eternal sleep, what living is all about.
I’m sorry, did my thoughts throw you off a bit? You must forgive me. Let me properly introduce myself. I am Sir Raymond Lawson- entrepreneur, philanthropist… yada yada yada.. I could go on but I now know that it’s all a waste of precious time, something of which I have not much left.
You see, I thought I was a great man, Yes, I actually believed in my own greatness. Each day was majestic for me as I woke up in awe of what I had accomplished. The morning papers always sang hymns of my accomplishments of the day before; there were days I would try and count the number of times my name did not appear… ha ha ha. What a fool I was! Yet I lived.
So what exactly did I do, you may ask. It’s quite simple, I told people how to live their lives. There are many names and titles for that- strategist, personality consultant, communications expert, public relations guru... Need I go on? So somewhere in the middle, the huge nexus formed by the union of all those special titles was me. I was a master of it all… a rare Jack of all trades and a master of all.
I will not bore you with the intricacies of how I came into this world, and how my parents struggled to make ends meet. Those are sad stories, normally used to buy public affection. I know. So the long and short of it: I was born, I suffered and then I made it. I wasn’t involved in anything illegal. It was my personal ethos: if a criminal can get it illegally, I sure can get it legally. And it worked for me.
At 16 I led a massive campaign for the legalization of cannabis in my council- success. Then I went on to sell an idea on how the city could rid itself of controlled drugs. 3 years from the day I made the bet, I won when the council decided to regulate prostitution and sampling.
Sampling was what the politicians of the day called legalized drug use, it worked in a particularly strange but ingenious way. Each household was to register all the samplers in the home. The maximum a home was allowed to have was 3. Each household was required to fill a form detailing the amount of consumption on a weekly basis, and daily random checks by special officials were instituted. This cost the city Billions, but it paid off: sampling centers were heavily taxed, with the government making over 400% in profits on a monthly basis.
I now laugh at how stupid the rest of the world must have thought we were. But we had the last laugh when our city was declared to have the lowest drug use rates in the history of our great nation.
End of Part 1
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Samuel
I'm 26 years old.
And this is my creed.
My voice is a tool in destiny's toolbox.
My words are the ammo of providence's slingshot.
My thoughts are the paths in fate's journey,
My intentions projections of success divine.
I write because I choose to speak
of the things the cause the world to spin.
I write because I can
and i believe my words will someday make an impact.
I'm not an agent of change as some many conclude or think.
I'm just the wind that blows and spreads the forest fire.
Join me and together we can walk to destiny's dream.
Love to all
I'm not a poet
I'm just me
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Olamide | Jul 24th, 2008
you know a counrty did this well something similar and it worked i think it was switzerland i suggested to the people around me and they were very negative towards it. but i think it will work its one of those things that will get worse before it gets better, but obviously its better in the long run. my theory is no matter how old you are if someone tells you, you CANNOT do something then all your guna wana do is do it. its like someone saying to you DONT LOOK DOWN what your first instinct?!?
cnt wait for the next part
Marona | Jul 3rd, 2009
Am really waiting for the next part.
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