You May Find This Offensive

I don't want to be a know it all

Who has to be everywhere all the time

I don't want to be that someone who always has to have the answer for everyone about everything

I don't want to be that person that is always chasing to be the resolution for all.

I don't want to be the one who imposes myself on everybody else's business.

I don't want to be someone that has to try and please everyone.

I don't have to be the one that everybody loves.

No thank you to that!!!

I'm afraid of a person like that.

Instead I just want to be me.

I want to be simple and uncomplicated.

I don't have to be loved by everyone.

I don't need to have all the answers.

I can say, "I don't know."

I can just relax and take it easy.

I don't have to chase… I can just let things come to me.

I don't have to be number one...

I'm okay with being number two or even number nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine.

I'm okay if I ruffle some feathers along the way or if someone dislikes me for one reason or another. Because frankly I am just not perfect and I'm not going to pretend to be.

I'm just going to be ole RHC who was born in the poor side of Bakersfield. Who due to circumstances hasn't had a job in the last 30 months and lives off of welfare and the graciousness of a few.

I'm just gonna be the me who quit college at age nineteen to try and be a rock and roll star but failed because of an ugly ego.

I'm going to be the me who likes to do things my way and not the way of conformity or the way that others try to tell me how I should be.

I'm going to be the one who says he believes in prayer and God in a room full of atheists and I don't even care if they tell me that I believe in make believe fairy tales.

I am going to wear my Nike shoes and kneel with Colin Kaepernick and if you call me unpatriotic I could care less.

I don't care if people talk behind my back and take screenshots of things I've written online or in private conversations so they can use it against me.

I simply don't care. Go ahead and throw those stones at me. I'm stronger than that.

Why?

Because I am going to simply just be me.

Because in the end deep down inside my core - I love the person that I am and I love those few that love me for who I am - warts, and pimples, and all.

* * * Oh... and I love you too... I honestly do!