25 random things about me

1) I'm left-handed and obsessed with finding people who are left-handed as well. I watch people around me, on TV, in movies, and in pictures to see if they write with their left hand and once I see it, I have to point it out. 

2) One of the coolest moments of my life was when I was invited to be in a small group of people at Duke that got to have dinner with Talib Kweli when he came to speak at Duke for MLK 4 years ago. To pick the brain of a true artist on the wonderful art form of hip hop will be something I'll tell my grandkids. 

3) I hate the word conversate and I constantly correct people close to me who speak poor English. I find it annoying that I'm OC about it but for some reason I can't let those kind of things go. 

4) I'm a sucker for romance when it's written well but even more for painful issues. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the best movies on love in it's own sick, twisted fashion. 

5) I wish I could sing because if I could I would make music just for the sake of making music. Not like most who do it: for fame or prestige or money but because of how music shapes the soul. 

6) I love sugar. I can eat healthy and enjoy it, could even be a vegetarian if I needed to be, but sugar is my weakness. Cake, cookies, pie, ice cream, you name it. 

7) I'm getting a PhD in physics not because I think I can, (cause I know this isn't my own ability) but because I love it. I read about it in my own personal time. The laws that govern God's universe amaze me and I couldn't see myself doing anything else. 

8) I have had a dream since I was kid in school learning Geography to see every country in the world and I have hoped to spend my life trying. 

9) Every time I hear "A song for You" by Donny Hathaway, I get misty in the eyes. That song is one of the most heartfelt love songs written of all time and it always makes me think of my future wife. 

10) I believe it true love because I believe in God. Because of that I believe there is someone made specifically for someone else and all the lovers in the world could never replace that one as long as they walk this Earth. 

11) I've seen High Fidelity probably at least 30 times. It's a genius movie based a genius book that captures love and music and how they are intertwined. I can relate to Rob and Barry: the under-appreciated scholars who choose to ish on the world in all its shallow glory. 

12) I'm quite cynical about most things that everyone likes because I feel that too many people out there are sheep, afraid to try anything out of what others say they should like or be. 

13) Since the first time I heard, "Isn't she lovely" by Stevie Wonder when I was a young boy, I knew I was destined to have a daughter and that I would be all that I could be to show her how a man should love her and to wait for God to bring him. 

14) Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway consequently are the two sole artists I would model my songwriting and music style by if I had the slightest bit of artistic talent. They've changed my life through their music and they should be a required class in any institute of music. 

15) I'm going to write books one day; I just haven't decided the topics yet. 

16) I think my sister is going to be one of the strongest women in my family that no one will see coming. She's revealed to me a level of genius that is so lacking in this day and age; mixed with a grace and peace that my clumsy handling of human relationships will never quite achieve and she has a sharp sense of humor that no one would figure just looking at her and that's why she's one of my most favorite type of people: the ones who have a tempest of genius behind a still smile.  

17) It irks me when people try to define biracial people as one thing or another. I spent my years trying to please both sides of my background until I realized one day that it's a waste of time and others don't define me, I found out who I am in Jehovah and what I found was so much better. 

18) I don't eat pork. I stopped a while back when I realized that it gave me headaches and that the thought of eating it started to make me sick when I thought of what a pig is. Now the the thought of pork grosses me out but all power to those who love it. Just not for me. 

19) I'm going to live to at least 100 because I've always had this feeling impressed upon me that as long as I'm on this Earth, I'm here for God's purpose and I need to be here as long as I can to make a difference in people's lives and souls. Once I'm done here, I'm going to go to sleep one night and not wake up. That's an extremely comforting thought. 

20) I don't regret the things I've done in the past to people but I do pray everyday that those people that I caused pain in their lives that they realize it was because I didn't want to answer the high calling on my life and focus on the walk and because of it, people got hurt in the process. 

21) I know that God sends signs to confirm that you are in His will. There were so many little things that line up between my queen and me, confirming that she was made by Him for me. 

22) I have a bad habit of watching supernatural shows, a weakness I've always had, whether real or fictional, though I would NEVER mess around with anything dealing with witchcraft. 

23) I read about three books at a time when I'm not stuck doing school work. I've been reading since I was 4 and I can never get enough of it. I've never understood people who don't read for enjoyment. 

24) My mother and I have had one of the most tumultuous relationships ever maintained in history but I love her immensely and thank God for her revealing Him to me early on in life. 

25) My pops is my hero. He has a quiet trust and strength within him that I've always admired. He can fix anything, he's patient, he's funny, he's wise, and I would happy to even measure to half the man he is.