{"id":129,"date":"2011-08-02T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quotemyt.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2014-09-08T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T18:14:54","slug":"john-dillinger-never-crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2011\/08\/john-dillinger-never-crawl\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dillinger, Never Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Never let them make you crawl<\/span>.” – John Dillinger<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

When I was in my early teens, life was not what I thought it should be.\u00a0 I expect that for many teens this is probably the case; of course I am now 36 years old and have grown up a little.\u00a0 We were living in Maryland on Fort Meade, yes my dad was Army and he was somewhere near 10 years of service.\u00a0 He had just won a court case that allowed him to stay in the Army even though he had Adult on-set Diabetes or Type II Diabetes<\/a>.\u00a0 I attended all of 7th Grade at MacArthur Middle School and most of 8th Grade.\u00a0 The school was close enough to walk to and that was kinda nice.<\/p>\n

When my family first moved to Maryland we lived with friends that my dad had made while working and waiting for the final outcome of his hearings or trial ( I am not sure really what it was).\u00a0 This good family let us move into their home and we lived there for most of the summer … I think.\u00a0 It may have been much less … the amount of time really doesn’t matter much.\u00a0 At this time our family was going through a major test and the outcome was uncertain.<\/p>\n

My mother, Mary, and Paul, the friend we had lived with, noticed that I was walking around with my chin down, literally on my chest.\u00a0 Mary approached me with love and concern while Paul decided that I needed to pick my head up and face my challenges and fears.\u00a0 I don’t know if Paul ever knew how much his belief that a person should hold their head high … and his method of motivation really forced me to physically change my behavior.\u00a0 It also help me change my attitude; however, it was not an overnight change.<\/p>\n

Sometime after this I found a quote from John Dillinger<\/a>… it could have come out of the Real Crime books that I started ready at this time in my life.\u00a0 I just don’t remember where I found it.\u00a0 I know that these words coming from a man like him could mean anything.\u00a0 I first took them to mean, fight anyone who would try to make me do something I didn’t want to do.\u00a0 This ended up helping me gain greater belief in myself and caused me to start believing in myself and my abilities.\u00a0 I know you are thinking what skills and abilities does a 12 year old have?\u00a0 That is a good question, next time you are in the presence of one, why don’t you ask them.<\/p>\n

Over the many years since then, I have seen the meaning of John’s quote changed to be less outward and more about changing myself to be the man I wanted to become.\u00a0 I still have this quote framed and in my medicine cabinet so that I can see it every morning.<\/p>\n

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