Andre lay on his back, headphones on, staring at the crack in his bedroom ceiling. It looked like a fork in the road, two lines splitting. People kept telling him he’d end up just like his cousins—locked up or washed out.
He grabbed a marker and, on a strip of masking tape, wrote one line: “I’m more than the streets I grew up on.” He stuck it on the ceiling right next to the crack. Every night before sleep, every morning before school, he saw those words.
At first, it felt corny. Then, it started to feel like a dare. If he really was more, what did that guy do differently? He started small: finishing homework, staying after class to ask one question, watching interviews of men who came from rough backgrounds and made it out.
He didn’t transform overnight, but his choices shifted. When friends laughed at his new focus, he looked up that night and whispered, “I’m still more.”
The tape curled at the edges after a few weeks, but he left it. It wasn’t perfect—neither was he. But both were proof that a new direction had started in the simplest place: a ceiling with a sentence that refused to let him forget his potential.
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