jan 2011 the mother of my child got pregnant. i was 19. I decided to go to real estate school to get my license to be able to provide.

    around may or june of that year i proposed to her, she said no. I decided it was best if we didn't get married after that for the future of our child not to grow up in a hostile enviroment.

    couple weeks later mother of my child gave me an ultimatum, either I say i'm going to marry her right now, or i'll never see my son again and she'll completely cut me off, block numbers etc.

    I told her no I won't marry her and i will be a part of my son's life regardless what she says or tries to do.

    next day she blocks my numbers etc.

    I end up communicating with her mother to see how the baby doctor vists are going etc. -eventually she stops responding

    I ask my mom for help at this point because i don't know what going on with my son.

    my mom calls her mom, obviously doesn't asnwer, calls from another number and she answers. She tells my mom that i've been texting and calling her ( obv she didn't reply to me in weeks about how the pregnancy was coming a long) and that she can file for harrassment.

    when she said that i told my mom to hang up the phone. i decided it was best to wait until my son was born and have a paternity test and get my lawyer involved.

    i waited out the pregnancy going to school for my real estate lic. and to blow off steam i started doing calisthenics in the park.

    as time passed i met a girl that was really in to me, we started to hang out

    we were into eachother and eventually we started dating and we had photos of eachother on ig etc =p (theres probably still one photo of her there if you scroll allll the way down, she rocks!)

    one day she took me to this place in midtown in miami it was by the art district -it was a lounge that was half inside half outside, and we were out back having a drink, around 2am. I she was resting against the wall and i was leaning into her and we were talking and being in our little world.

    someone comes up behind me and pushes me, I turn around the person punches me in the face and four other people that were beside him try to jump me, as i told you i had been fighting for many years, I hit the person in front of me and quickly full mounted him. his friends dog piled me. -the bouncers came and grabbed the kids and literally threw them outside, something from a movie.

    they took me into the office and asked me if i needed medical attention and washed me up, i told them i was fine i was just shocked i didn't know what happened or who these people were. -they told me that they had already thrown them out.

    they proceeded to walk me to the back and opened a back door to a back long back alley.

    they told me ok you can get out through here, i told them my gf brought me here and i didn't have a car and i need to call her see if she is ok etc. they told me to call her and tell her to come pick me up, and go home and forget anything happened and that they didn't want to be liable for anything. turns out later on i find they didn't have the proper liquor lic. to be selling alcohol. they had a food and beverage lic. and they weren't selling food. they closed shortly after.

    so they politely put me out through the back to this long back alley at almost 3am in miami midtown.

    as i'm calling my gf walking out the alley, kids are running- they see me, then start running into the alley. there's about 13 people trying to surround me, I stay close to the wall so they can't completely circle me.

    they start telling me their this gang, and idk who i just F* with blah blah etc.

    I try to difuse the situation by trying to talk it out lol but i knew if i started running they would think i'm a punk and jump me for sure lol.

    in florida there's a law called Stand Your Ground. so after being circled by 13 gangsters not knowing if they had a gun or what, they closed in and tried to jump me.

    the first person to attack me from the crowd received a flesh wound. -after that all that ghetto stuff went right out the window, they stopped, took their friend through him into one of their trucks and they all took off yelling they were gonna come to my house and kill me and my family lol.

    that night i called a friend's dad who is a retired homocide detective in miami. i told him what happened and asked him what i need to do.

    he told me i need to get an attorney and do not call the police because they will try to arrest me.

    I hired an attorney he recomended me and began my case, witness testimonials etc. my gf was my number one witness as she took me there and picked me up after that happened to me. -months passed nothing happend yet and i became a real estate agent. -one morning i'm going to work and get stopped by 5 DTs -they tell me there's a detective down at the station that wants to talk to me, i asked them if i'm being detained they said no. i asked them what he wants to talk about they say they don't know. so i agreed to comply. i call my lawyer and friends dad they told me i shouldnt have gotten in the car with them and now their going to try to detain me illegaly.

    they take me to the station and sit me in an interigation room for 45 mins. and no one comes in. -finally someone comes in and told me the detective that wanted to talk to me went on vacation and i'm being arrested for premeditated attempted murder.

    i told them i've never killed anyone or tried to. they told me oh, on so and so day you did. and i told them on that day i was attacked by a gang and i have a whole case and lawyer. and they said tell to the judge. they illegally picked me up AND arrested me with no evidence at all. just an accusation.

    they hand me my yellow paper that states all my info and it reads:

-victim first states he arrives with his friends. victim then states he notices the defendant at the bar. victim then states the defendant doesn't like him because he has been speaking to the mother of his child.(my heart sunk then and realized what this was all about, I had been excommunicated from her and this family the whole time, didn't even know she had another bf, and that means she would have had to pick him up when she was like 6 months preg? eww) victim then states a verbal altercation ensued in the bar and we started to fight. victim then states the bouncers broke up the fight and were both escorted out of the club. victim then stated he and his friends started to walk towards their vehicles. victim then states when they go to, they observed 15or 20 individuals running towards their direction. according to the victim the individuals surrounded him. as they surrounded him they were saying this is going to be a 1 on 1. the victim stated that he saw the defenant running towards him and before he was able to swing, he was stabbed once on the right side of his chest. the victim started yelling that he had been stabbed. when the individuals heard this they all fled the scene. the victim then jumped into a taxi, which to him to jackson ryder trauma center.

lol, so yea ovbviously that fake A* story didn't hold up in court and they let me out on bond. as soon as they let me out on bond i travelled the world and competed and held workshops and opened a gym and used that as my fire to propel me in the right direction. when you're sitting in jail with attempted murder over your head. you've hit rock bottom. and the only way to go is up.

    i learned about the power of the universe and universal energy and how you can literally will things into existance and i slowly have manifested my desires in to my life by doing so and i continue to do so. I live a much more meaningful and happier life that i have been through all this and honestly wouldn't have traded it for any other way, i believe it was something i had to go through to make me the man i am today.

-they were going to drop the case until one day i went to my son's house to try to meet him a year later and to give him gifts, obv. i told them i was going to come days earlier. they didn't let me meet him so i left the gifts there, couple days later i went to court and the "victim" showed up with a new lawyer saying they my case is getting dropped and they demand justice etc. and my case was put back on trial. he was still dating the mother of my child so he was really trying to put me away they specifically asked for that only they didn't want restitution or anything. also it turned out these "gangsters" was a grafitti gang that were actually a bunch of wannabe thugs from a wealthy neighborhood not too far away.

    i continued to travel the world, which i had to get permission form my judge every time to do so, it was really awesome she saw my whole growth from coming out of jail to traveling the world to opening my own gym, she's awesome and loves me and everytime i went there she would always tell a great speech to the court room about me.

    they basically tried to scare me and say if you go to trial and if you're convicted you could go to jail for 10 years and it doesn't matter what actually happened but what his lawyer could make the jury believe is the problem.

    so i lived for the next two years thinking at the beginning of every month i would have to go to trial and could lose everything i've been working on and never see my son ever. i think that really drove my work ethic into bustting my ass and working as hard as i can becuase if these were going to be my last moments, i'm going to give it all i got!

eventually they asked me to take a plea to be on probation for like 3 years and at that point 2 years later so much stress lawyer fees and court, and i just opened my first gym, i decided to just take it.

two years later after and now here i am! thanks for writing!really glad i can share this story!!