So I had gotten a letter from one of my Vietnamese li’l bros named Thomas(nickname ‘‘T’’) the other day. He’s doing 40 for a murder. I really miss him, and need to get this off of my chest. The other night, as I was reading his letter, and reminicsing about all the fun we had, all the times we’d shot the shit, all the times we’d gotten high, all the times we’d ate, all the times we’d had great laughs, all the trouble we’d gotten into, and then, I came across a memory that really hurt to think about. He used to make jokes of how I was ‘old’, and I would get angry sometimes, because of my ego. It would make me think of all the time I’d lost, to the system. On one particular time, I’d gotten so mad, that I told him, “Haha, it’s gon’ be alright bro. You’d barely started your 40 too, and I am almost out the door with my 15, so you bouta have a good taste and know what it feels like. You’re bouta lose all your 20’s and then some, just like I did…” Thinking about that shit really hurts, because looking back in restrospect, he was just playing with me and joking like a little brother would with his big brother. Haha, really hurt me to think about that. Need to work on my shadow aspect more. Now I realize just how much those words probably had hurt him. And furthermore, it breaks my heart to know that we have a loooong time until we actually will have a chance to kick it again in person. I wish I could take those words back man… but I can’t. I’d put him on this website that I was on while I was in prison called, “WriteAprisoner.com”, and he was so happy about that, and telling me about how this girl had written him off of there, and how that girl had written him. The smallest things mean so much to one, when you almost have nothing. A ramen noodle soap, a new show, a special holiday pie, some new snack, a magazine, a letter or communication with the opposite sex, and etc. So it really warmed my heart how happy he was, being on that site. I pray for him and his family every morning. The little things matter. They always do.