🔵 By Daniel Campbell. Photo by lauragrafie.
Hi my name is currently #1900878. I am a resident in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the prison system in the state of Texas, in the United States. There are no comforts here and I do not get to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that this country has to offer and I’m told what to do every second of my incarcerated life. I was born Daniel Paul Campbell but due to my poor decision making and criminal behavior I was stripped of that name and given a number instead, and thrown in prison. I used to whine about being here in prison. Cry like a big ‚ol baby as if I didn’t do anything to be here. Like nothing was my fault. Why me? Poor, poor me. Until finally when I pointed everywhere but back at myself I realized that those 3 fingers I wasn’t so quick to use to blame others was pointed back at me. And it actually doesn’t take a whole lot to be a man and own up to his own actions especially when he’s wrong.
I am one great big immature, irresponsible, careless, and selfish person. I care nothing about morals and values or integrity. I do not abide by no professional code of conduct. All of my entire life consisted of me laying all of my responsibilities on the backs of any and all who would do anything for me. I took advantage of people and took them for granted. I thought that anyone I knew was supposed to do for me. I was impatient, rude, obnoxious, and down right a big slime ball. And I did not care who I hurt or offended. I let everybody down who depended on me and I wasn’t there for those who needed me. I was a great big disappointment and I simply refused to grow up and be a man. I escaped reality by abusing hallucinogenic and psychedelic drugs and blended in with the underground club party scene. Away from the bright lights of reality and the real world.
These are the characteristics and unrighteous lifestyle that will surely condemn a person to a definite spiritual death that will cause misery and depression unbearable. I’m guilty. Now I seek forgiveness from all those I hurt and disappointed throughout my reckless and radical behavior because not one person I caused any pain deserved it. And through change I will grow out of the person I once was and into somebody who is eager to help someone else change for the better. And it starts with me, Daniel Paul Campbell, admitting to myself that we only get out of life what we put into it.
Humbly, Daniel Paul Campbell.