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Why Getting Rich Young Leads to Temptation — Dwight Howard and MPJ


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For you coming into the league at 18 and being given access to everything, being given millions of dollars, number one pick, superstar, the team is yours, the city's yours, and people try to point to your shortcomings or the children out of wedlock or this or that as a hit at your character.

It don't matter if you think you're the most solid dude in the world, closest to God, pray 12 hours a day. If you're giving that at 18 years old and you've never seen any of these things, anybody's going to have shortcomings. So talk about that experience. Well, it was just the temptation of everything.

Yeah. When you have money, you're tempted to buy whatever you want, do whatever you want, and it's really just a choice. That's why God give you free will. You know, obviously, we're going to have our shortcomings, obviously we're going to fail, but what do you do when you get up after you fall?

Are you going to turn away? Are you going to be the same? Now, obviously, there were some times where I had the same thing happen. Like people say, I had some kids out of wedlock. I had to learn a lesson. Until I learned the lesson, things had to happen.

Now, obviously, these kids aren't, they're not bad lessons. They're blessings. But I had to learn in other ways because of what I did by having these kids out of wedlock, i.e. child support, having to deal with, you know, co-parenting and stuff like that, which can be very difficult when you have to deal with multiples.

You know what I'm saying, so that's the things that I had to take accountable to. Like I messed up and did this, that, and the third, and nobody else can judge me but God.