Side note: I took the “La” from Kill La Kill. Kill La Kill is a good anime, you should watch it.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m really enjoying life due to me grinding so hard. I’m currently a junior in college and I work at a hospital as a housekeeper. I spend most of my time studying and working hard while in college. On the weekends I work.
Don’t get me wrong I do other things in my spare time but sometimes I feel like college and working are the only main things that I do. I don’t really like to party that much due to me not being a huge party person. I mean ever once and a while I’ll go to a party but it’s something that I don’t engage in on a regular basis. I don’t do drugs and I’m not really into alcohol.
I feel like people that I grew up with are living their lives as they should at this age (in their 20s’) partying, having romantic encounters, and other things like going to the beach while I’m putting in a time mission (watch the video below and you’ll understand that Yung Lean reference). At the same breath I know that grinding is the best option for me right now because I know my hard work will pay off. Once it does I can do more things that I may have missed out on while I was grinding so hard.
Another struggle that I deal with is being a hater of people that are doing what I want to do. Yes I can be a hater sometimes but is it really wrong for someone to be a hater? I got kind of angry when I watched the YouTube video of Yung Lean chilling in Tokyo because that is something that I want to do down the road. For the people that are reading this and want to respond with, “Then go to Tokyo, why are you hating on Yung Lean?” I have a response.
My response is that I’m grinding my ass off to get to that point but for the time being I can’t do that particular activity. I don’t hate Yung Lean because I enjoy quite a few of his songs but I’m hating on him because he has done something that I wanted to do and I can’t accomplish my goal of getting to Tokyo right now because I don’t have the money to go to Japan and plus I’m a broke ass college student at this current time.
Now I’m working hard in college so I can receive my bachelor’s degree so I can find a job that would help me to complete my goal of getting to and or visiting Tokyo. Yung Lean has made me angry because he is doing something that I want to do but in return I use that anger to motivate me even more to get to Tokyo. I feel like there is nothing wrong with hating on someone that is doing better than you if you use that to motivate yourself to do better and to reach or go beyond where they’re at. Now if you hate on someone and you’re not working hard to surpass them, well you’re just a bitter ass hater.
For the people that don’t know the terms “grind” and “grinding” let me give you my personal definition on these words. The words “grind” and “grinding” means to work hard in order to accomplish goals that you have. The word grind can have other various meaning but when I think of the word grind, hard work comes to my mind.
I like to think of 2012 as the beginning of the grind years for me. I graduated from high school in 2012 and went straight to community college. From that point on I had been putting in WORK without even realizing it. At first I kind of disliked grinding so hard because I really didn’t really get to enjoy things outside of college as I should have, now I like grinding because I have goals that I want to accomplish. Goals that I never really thought I could achieve but I’m starting to realize that there in my grasp so I can’t let them go.
Grinding also has made me more angry (Struggle La Struggle covers why I feel angry sometimes). I’m channeling that anger (which I mentioned earlier in the article) which improves my work ethic (whether my work ethic pertains to college or just working on a job). I feel like everyone at some point has to grind in order to understand what hard work means and or feels like. The grind years can be worth it if you have a master plan that you want to act upon or just general goals that you want to accomplish.
Overall I just hope that I don’t lose my hard work ethic that I have developed due to me grinding. By the way I’m not bragging about how hard I work because there are MANY more people out there that GRIND way HARDER than I do (sounds sexual doesn’t it *laughs*), I just wanted to let people know of my own personal grind. I’m transferring to a university in a few weeks so I felt as though I should make this article to remind myself to stay hungry, keep myself humble, and to keep grinding. Also I wanted to share with the readers what struggles I have and that those struggles help me with keeping my mind focus on the grind.
I hope people that read this latest edition of Young Nigga Mentality can relate to the grind. It would be legit if this article helped motivate someone. I got a video below that I watch from time to time to help keep me motived as well (S/O to Art Williams) also I have added a song that has a theme of grinding (S/O to Jay Rock).
P.S. Keep grinding folks!
You can hear Taiwan weekly on the Powerbomb Jutsu podcast.
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Struggle La Struggle
Sometimes I wonder if I’m really enjoying life due to me grinding so hard. I’m currently a junior in college and I work at a hospital as a housekeeper. I spend most of my time studying and working hard while in college. On the weekends I work.
Don’t get me wrong I do other things in my spare time but sometimes I feel like college and working are the only main things that I do. I don’t really like to party that much due to me not being a huge party person. I mean ever once and a while I’ll go to a party but it’s something that I don’t engage in on a regular basis. I don’t do drugs and I’m not really into alcohol.
I feel like people that I grew up with are living their lives as they should at this age (in their 20s’) partying, having romantic encounters, and other things like going to the beach while I’m putting in a time mission (watch the video below and you’ll understand that Yung Lean reference). At the same breath I know that grinding is the best option for me right now because I know my hard work will pay off. Once it does I can do more things that I may have missed out on while I was grinding so hard.
My response is that I’m grinding my ass off to get to that point but for the time being I can’t do that particular activity. I don’t hate Yung Lean because I enjoy quite a few of his songs but I’m hating on him because he has done something that I wanted to do and I can’t accomplish my goal of getting to Tokyo right now because I don’t have the money to go to Japan and plus I’m a broke ass college student at this current time.
Now I’m working hard in college so I can receive my bachelor’s degree so I can find a job that would help me to complete my goal of getting to and or visiting Tokyo. Yung Lean has made me angry because he is doing something that I want to do but in return I use that anger to motivate me even more to get to Tokyo. I feel like there is nothing wrong with hating on someone that is doing better than you if you use that to motivate yourself to do better and to reach or go beyond where they’re at. Now if you hate on someone and you’re not working hard to surpass them, well you’re just a bitter ass hater.
Grind La Grind
For the people that don’t know the terms “grind” and “grinding” let me give you my personal definition on these words. The words “grind” and “grinding” means to work hard in order to accomplish goals that you have. The word grind can have other various meaning but when I think of the word grind, hard work comes to my mind.
I like to think of 2012 as the beginning of the grind years for me. I graduated from high school in 2012 and went straight to community college. From that point on I had been putting in WORK without even realizing it. At first I kind of disliked grinding so hard because I really didn’t really get to enjoy things outside of college as I should have, now I like grinding because I have goals that I want to accomplish. Goals that I never really thought I could achieve but I’m starting to realize that there in my grasp so I can’t let them go.
Grinding also has made me more angry (Struggle La Struggle covers why I feel angry sometimes). I’m channeling that anger (which I mentioned earlier in the article) which improves my work ethic (whether my work ethic pertains to college or just working on a job). I feel like everyone at some point has to grind in order to understand what hard work means and or feels like. The grind years can be worth it if you have a master plan that you want to act upon or just general goals that you want to accomplish.
Overall I just hope that I don’t lose my hard work ethic that I have developed due to me grinding. By the way I’m not bragging about how hard I work because there are MANY more people out there that GRIND way HARDER than I do (sounds sexual doesn’t it *laughs*), I just wanted to let people know of my own personal grind. I’m transferring to a university in a few weeks so I felt as though I should make this article to remind myself to stay hungry, keep myself humble, and to keep grinding. Also I wanted to share with the readers what struggles I have and that those struggles help me with keeping my mind focus on the grind.
I hope people that read this latest edition of Young Nigga Mentality can relate to the grind. It would be legit if this article helped motivate someone. I got a video below that I watch from time to time to help keep me motived as well (S/O to Art Williams) also I have added a song that has a theme of grinding (S/O to Jay Rock).
P.S. Keep grinding folks!
You can hear Taiwan weekly on the Powerbomb Jutsu podcast.
Follow @BroskiTaiwan
