# 5 What's been the Greatest Challenge

I face a number of challenges everyday of my life. But my hardest challenge I think is trying to stay on a strait path and stay out of trouble. It seems easy, but it's hard. I have a certain group of friends that I'm very close to that may have a negative influence on me but I love my friends too much to kick them to the curve. Not everybody wants to better themselves but,I do that's why I'm trying to finish school so I can be a somebody. Then the area I hang out in really plays a part in my life that's against my succession. People like me that have done alot of bad things in the past have to watch where I be because enemies don't go away and they can care less that a brother finally trying to change. This is the reason I just try to stay to myself and out of everybody else business. My hardest challenge is yet to come. You guessed it, setting a positive example for my son and showing him how to be a man. I try to be a totally different person when lil Marty is around me because he so smart and pick up on things very quick. This will be my hardest challenge but if I show him all the right things he will have the knowledge to succeed. But I take it day by day because anything could happen. We can be here today and forgotten about tommorow, so like I said I challenge myself because everyday life is a challenge.