The Path of Positivity By: Brandon A. Webley

Chapter 1: Humble Beginnings

I'm a nice, Christian man who has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at eight and suffered brain damage after birth. A man saved me to give me life and that was god. I always have a positive attitude that never let me down. I can admit that I'm just your everyday average Joe. In all my life, negativity keeps knocking me down. It got me down once. Did that stop me? No it didn't.

I may fall down at times, but I always know when to brush myself off and get back up because I never fall back from a challenge. The saying goes if life knocks you down, it will come at you like a bowling ball trying to attempt to knock all the pins. Except you may get half, maybe an 8 out of 10, 9 out of 10, may hit one pin possibly more than one or missing all of them. Sometimes you could find yourself with a strike or a split. The saying is always try again, no matter how many times you fall down get up, and make sure you're giving it all you got like 100%. What are the odds of this? Truth is you'll get a lot of criticism from folks who can't keep anything to themselves or knowing when to keep their mouths shut if they don't have nothing to say.

What does this mean? The answer is after everything you've heard, it means I'm a strong individual. The lesson in this novel is about the struggles we go through everyday. As they say, we know each other's names, but not the struggles or stories we have behind us.

I struggled ever since I was 8 after my parents divorced and it was tough. I fought nearly two decades of my life away because my dad wasn't around. I had to learn life lessons the hard way on my own. I scratched and clawed my way to opportunities that I want. Everyday as I got older, it was recreate, rebuild, and redesign from the last 19 years. There were times I had to jump the biggest person in front of me and I had to fight crowds.