BleedGopher
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per Cedric:
I grew up seeing violence in my house. I watched my mom and dad get divorced. People around me were using drugs. I saw my friends and cousins get shot, get killed. Before I went to college, I thought that was the norm, that’s how the world was. And then I went to Minnesota for college, which was a complete culture shock. For the first time, I could walk down the street without looking behind my back.
Sometimes I think about how much I’ve been through…and I really can’t believe it. Today, at one of our NFL Rookie Symposium sessions, we had a speaker talk to us about drunk driving. I have a scar on my face because my dad was drunk driving and we got into a car accident. I kind of forgot about that, and I see the scar every single day! Growing up where I come from, you learn how to dump those emotions and forget about them. And that’s part of a lot of young males’ problems; we push our emotions to the side and try to be hard all the time. I’m really trying to find myself by looking at who I was as a child, a teenager and the man that I am becoming now…that will give me a strong foundation to find out who I really am.
http://cedricthompson.sportsblog.com/posts/2689488/determined-to-succeed---no-matter-what.html
Go Gophers!!
I grew up seeing violence in my house. I watched my mom and dad get divorced. People around me were using drugs. I saw my friends and cousins get shot, get killed. Before I went to college, I thought that was the norm, that’s how the world was. And then I went to Minnesota for college, which was a complete culture shock. For the first time, I could walk down the street without looking behind my back.
Sometimes I think about how much I’ve been through…and I really can’t believe it. Today, at one of our NFL Rookie Symposium sessions, we had a speaker talk to us about drunk driving. I have a scar on my face because my dad was drunk driving and we got into a car accident. I kind of forgot about that, and I see the scar every single day! Growing up where I come from, you learn how to dump those emotions and forget about them. And that’s part of a lot of young males’ problems; we push our emotions to the side and try to be hard all the time. I’m really trying to find myself by looking at who I was as a child, a teenager and the man that I am becoming now…that will give me a strong foundation to find out who I really am.
http://cedricthompson.sportsblog.com/posts/2689488/determined-to-succeed---no-matter-what.html
Go Gophers!!
