Big Dreams, Gangsta...

Said you have to leave to start your life over.

But there is no gangster who can syart life over. None of them. Ever.

Once you get in that kind of a trouble, you stay there forever. Till the end, and many times the end is not far away.

Today, I would like to talk a bit about life on the other side, about young people who get there, their reasons for that, about what happens to them, and how they end up.

There are many movies about criminals and some of them are Scarfect, The Legend, Carlito's Way, Donnie Brasco, Dead or Alive, The Public Enemy, A Better Tomorrow... and many, many more. And, some of those movies, actually all those movies from the list, and many more gangster movies are really great. And, I recommend watching them. But, carefuly. Focus on the end of the movie. Focus how any money, any power anything was never stronger than the state or than the bullet.

All those bad boys ended up bad.

I am living in Serbia and the end of the last century was not the best period in my country. War, restrictions, politics, all that was leading us to the edge, and unfortunately many young people, fell of that edge. I say young people because that was happening to the bouys and girls both, just in different ways. Maybe, I will also write about gilrs in some of next articles.

Now, young boys were watching their parents working hard, having no money and having lots of problems during that period.

They saw that hrad work is not bringing any money and that is how they 'realized' that they do not need to go to school that they do not need education to get money. At the same time, they are watching criminlas all around them, having best cars, lost of money and prettiest girls. So, they simply decided to go that way, to earn a lot of money in no time.

Next thing, young people do not like boring things, life of a criminal is everything but boring. There is a lot of risk but it is never boring. And, some young men really like that. Lost of adrenalin lots of adventures...

It is fast. I said that before but I think that I should talk more about that. When you are doing something legal, first you go to school, after that university, after that you start, you move up and you have to confess, that is a bit slow. Young people are not patient. They want everything and they want it now.

When you mix all those things with a bunch of negative energy and negative feelings, you get people who do not understand each other, who do not have time for each other. You get parents who do not talk to their sons enough and sons who do not ask their parents anything.

Situation is not much better nowadays, there are still many poor people in Serbia, still many people who are doing two jobs in order to buy everything their family need. Many will say now that love and time spent with family is more important than money. I agree, but many people, cannot afford everything they need for normal life if they are doing only one job. People have to buy food, clothes, pay rent and bills...

That is why people do not have much time for their children. At the same time, children do not have any control and they can do whatever they want to. They are spending a lot of time watching TV and on social networks. As we all know, we are all happy, pretty and rich on social networks. And, that is normal, noone will ever post an ugly photo, but sometimes that makes people think that is not normal to have bad day, to do not have money...

Also, movies, music, everything glorifies violence, money, drugs, criminals...

Young people are under bad influence and that afects on many of them.

Those are the reasons why young people decide to become criminals.

How do they get into that?

Well, there are many ways. Some of them know someone, who is already a criminal, some of them get into that alone...

There are many songs about the 'criminal path' and about how boys become criminals. There is a Serbian song called 'Zivot Klinca', which means life of a young boy, he got into that because he was poor and he wanted to help his mother. His friend 'helped' him to get in, later he become rich, powerful, he head everything, but he had nothings. At the end he lost his mother, and then he realized that he actually has nothing.

No matter how do they get into all those things at one point they will realize that it is not what they wanted. That it is not what it seemed like. Here in Serbia we have a proverb that says 'It is not gold everything that shines', which means that if sometihing seems very good, does not meen that it actually is good.

Anyways, when they realize that it is not what they want, they usually at the same time realize that they cannot get out of that alive. And, of course they are in panic, they would love to change their lives, but there is not way for that.

Now we can connect this to the first sentence of this article.

'Said you have to leave to start life over'. You have, but you cannot, you want to run, but you know that you cannot escape, you want to change but you know that there is not a point. You want to scream, but noone will hear you, you want to hide, but they will find you...

That's just how it is.

Because of that, be careful before you even get into it, be careful when you decide what you are going to be in your life. There is not way back. You will stay where you are.

Some mistakes cannot be corrected. Never.

That was all for this article, in followinf days I will write the 'female' version of this article, about topic that is connected to this one. I hope that this will be interesting to you.

Let me know what do you think about this in the comments below.

xoxo,

SuncicaZ.