In the words of Kendrick Lamar, when stuff hits the fan, is you still a fan? 

Yousef was one of the main reasons why I started up this whole YouTube thing again believe it or not. I didn't do it for the fame, not for money, but to be able to grow an audience that is like-minded and cultivate similar visions that I have on life; everything else is just a by-product. But at the same time, with exposure, comes hate, comes judgement, comes envy, and a myriad of other negative emotions and opinions. You're essentially like a modern day human punching bag.

For the longest time of my early years in life, I was known as the 'quiet kid.' Where in reality, I'd would rather self-label myself as the 'weird kid.' I was knew I had quite the quirky personality but the issue was I never really showed it, or I was too afraid to. Instead, I kept my thoughts to myself and let other people speak for me. Don't get me wrong, I am no where close to that extrovert who can round up a bunch of people in a persuasive argument, but now I can for sure hell try to. There are certain tendencies where my past behaviour of being quiet kick in but for the most part, I think I have come a long way from where I use to be.

Being around people who will bring you down, criticize, judge, without much rationale is toxic. People should want to be around others who support their dreams, and support them in whatever they pursue. This type of mindset should be applied to everything.

You don't want to be that person who gets their heart broken and goes 10 years in their life being single and writing blog entries about how that person was horrible, in contrast, you don't want to be that person who instead of figuring themselves out, finds comfort in being promiscuous.

The limelight, it burns, not everyone can handle it. It comes with the territory of putting yourself out there, but that's a sacrifice I'll take for doing something I genuinely enjoy. You put yourself in the public eye, you lose a sense of privacy, you get judged, hated on, etc. on a daily basis. But we have to remember that it's only your interpretation of negativity that is hindering you from really growing as a person.