Who do you get compared to?
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Started by SuperFly
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Sep 2004
After watching a relative of mine who plays football for Carolina the past couple of weeks, I remembered when he was living in Laurinburg, people used to compare us all the damn time. I was one of the smartest kids in the state, but he was the all star athelete. All of our classmates used to say "How come you ain't all athletic like Jacques?" Granted, I did play sports, but some people don't count golf and tennis as a sport... :? I doubt anyone said much to him about me besides "Ya'all are actually realted?!" But I never heard the end of it... even when he left Laurinburg. Regardless, now Jacques is being actively recruited by the NFL, pledged Kappa Alpha Psi Two years ago I believe and is once again on everyone's watch list. While I'm still hitting the books. Once again when I go home, I hear "Why aren't you all althletic like Jacques?!" from people who aren't leaving that lil podunk place while I'm here, once again, hitting the books. Keep in mind, that I have no grudge against the guy or anything, and our family, including him, recognize that I'm doing my thing just as much as he is and always has (as a matter of fact, the family was MORE impressed that I was going to A&T on a full ride than the fact that he was starting on UNC's football team), however its irritating that people that are going nowhere in life don't see this...
My point is:
Who in your family does everyone else either in the family or in the community try to compare you to?
And this is my cousin:
Tailback #20 Jacques Lewis
Tailback #20 Jacques Lewis
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Man everybody in my family sees a lil bit of themselves in me. Especially my aunt
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im compared to my older borther...i do not act like him..that n!gga wanna be like me if anything 
My father says I act like my mother
My mother says I act like my father
they both say I act like Andre...
..but yeah, I can relate to that bein' compared thing, cuz whenever I'm at home I got all these "Chathamanians" talkin' bout, "man, yo brother showl can play basketball. Why you don't play no sports?" or the infinitely ridiculous and blindingly ignorant "Why yo' brother taller'n you?" I swear they need to just firebomb that whole town. Twice.
I don't think there is really anybody that I have been compared to like that, but I have a feeling that some of my friends and cousin's parents compare their kids to me. Most of my friends in the neighborhood are doin alright, not too many are gangbangin or slangin, but most are at community colleges and didn't do too good in high school, and their parents always wished they were a bit more productive.
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My Grandfather...He was tall, mean, and basically an asshole...So, I remind people most of him
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Aggie Highlander wrote:After watching a relative of mine who plays football for Carolina the past couple of weeks, I remembered when he was living in Laurinburg, people used to compare us all the damn time. I was one of the smartest kids in the state, but he was the all star athelete. All of our classmates used to say "How come you ain't all athletic like Jacques?" Granted, I did play sports, but some people don't count golf and tennis as a sport... :? I doubt anyone said much to him about me besides "Ya'all are actually realted?!" But I never heard the end of it... even when he left Laurinburg. Regardless, now Jacques is being actively recruited by the NFL, pledged Kappa Alpha Psi Two years ago I believe and is once again on everyone's watch list. While I'm still hitting the books. Once again when I go home, I hear "Why aren't you all althletic like Jacques?!" from people who aren't leaving that lil podunk place while I'm here, once again, hitting the books. Keep in mind, that I have no grudge against the guy or anything, and our family, including him, recognize that I'm doing my thing just as much as he is and always has (as a matter of fact, the family was MORE impressed that I was going to A&T on a full ride than the fact that he was starting on UNC's football team), however its irritating that people that are going nowhere in life don't see this... My point is: Who in your family does everyone else either in the family or in the community try to compare you to? And this is my cousin:
