A rose growing out of Concrete

The Rose That Grew Through Concrete

 " If you was walking on the street and on the concrete saw a rose growing out of concrete even if it had messed up pedals and it was a little bit to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of all the dirtiest circumstances and he can talk and he could sit  a cross you and make you smile make you cry make you laugh all you can do is talk about my dirty rose my dirty stem and how I am leaning crooked to the side you can't even see I came up out of that shit." -Tupac

  Lets analyze this quote shall we ? First lets see the background , Tupac was a rapper an ideal to many. He grew up in the ghetto he understands what challenges some of us have faced. When he tried to change and make the world a better place he was criticized and judged harshly for his past. Many teachers have done that to some of us they know our past mistakes but won't bother seeing what we have done to change. I know people who have changed after certain things in life after losing friends to drive bys. When the world will only see you as a screw up and nothing more than that is all we will be. He talks about a rose that grows through the concrete and compares it to people who have grown out of their own struggles but people won't talk about their victories but rather their wounds and the battles they lost. Tupac was an activist he understood that some times people get judged by the mistakes they did by their past actions not bothering to see how they are struggling to be a better person to change the world.The real thing we should judge is not people's past but their struggle to improve.