Not Getting What You Want Might Be The Best Thing to Never Happen to You

Remember to Thank Your Lucky Stars

Deante L. Young
3 min readDec 29, 2020
Black Benz
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In 2015, I was closer than expected to getting a brand new Mercedes Benz.

Being contracted with a sales agency at the time was an advantage in this case since they preferred their agents to have flashy vehicles for recruiting purposes.

The filthy rich co-owner of the company was willing to pull some strings to make this awesome idea a reality for me.

But under no circumstances did I want my manager to know about any of this.

I knew how his mind worked in these situations and I strongly believed that he would try to stop the Benz thing from happening.

This was because he knew that my financial situation was fucked up. Me getting that type of car would’ve taken my life from nightmare to major league catastrophe.

Instantly.

Well, the muthafucka found out anyway and told me exactly what I knew he would:

Getting that car would be a terrible idea and until I could show him a bank statement with at least $20,000 in my account, he advised me not to get it.

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Deante L. Young

I ghostwrite LI and X content for CEOs to capitalize on their thought leadership and build their personal brand | 12 + years working with business executives |