Liff (Full Circle)
I learned this the hard way — the only thing that ever kept me standing.
Gas explosion at 11. 65% third-degree burns. Same fire took my grandparents. High school in the 80s with scars and teachers joining the bullying. 13 years fighting the compensation case. Got the money… felt nothing. Cocaine, postnatal depression, The Rocks suicide cliff.
Met a woman about to jump. Gave her one tiny goal and the same advice that saved me: raise money for someone else. She walked away with hope. I walked away and raised two and a half million dollars for street kids.
But the dead feeling came back. Another cliff. Gun to my head. Didn’t flinch. Told the boss straight. He gave me 17k credit, moved me in, then handed me three grand: “Buy that mixer. You’ve got good taste in music — you should be a DJ.”
Music became my drug of choice. The one that actually saved my life.
Two cliffs. Two times honesty saved me.
People don’t need perfection.
They need something real to hold onto.
That’s Liff.
Full Circle.
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