Some of the realist shit I've ever heard was from my buddy Jah, back when I was in high school. He is a Rasta from Jamaica and he just had a way with words that came-out with arguably one of the coolest accents on earth. He was like only 2 or 3 years older than us but he was so wise. He was like a peaceful Rasta/gangster-ass motherfkr hybrid, a walking contradiction, but the man was fkn cool, the definition of cool. Shit went DOWN at the apartment complex where he and a few of my buddies lived (how I met him).
Anyways, he told me once; "Man, the whole world is gangs. The Government, they a gang, LAPD, they a gang. Dick Chaney, George Bush, all dem be gangs. That is life bruh; you find people who are down for you and your shit and you ride. So fk Obama and all dem politicians, he don't give a fk about me and I don't give a fk about him, he ride fo his shit with his people and I ride for mine wit my people, the only thing is that he and his people road to da top and that's what I'm tryin to do. No body gonna change nothin for me, I ride for it. Bruh, you find you gang and you ride for y'all shit, your ride as close to the top as you can get and maybe you be president one day."
Now this isn't verbatim, he had a lot of cool ass Rasta lingo and vocab he was using, but I remember the message well and took it as truth, I have ever since. I took it as; you find like-minded individuals, people you can trust and you try to achieve your goals, dreams, ambitions, what have you. That's all you can do in this world to make your dreams come true, to materialize your visions and ideas, to obtain your wants and needs.
Anyways, that's something that stuck with me hard and thought the message was worth sharing. I haven't seen Jah for years, last time I saw him I was trying help him dump some shit to get diapers and feed his kids for that day. The man was real as fk.