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Ballin’ Part 2

Ballin’ : Part 2                                                                 By Dominic Brogsdale “Ballin’” is slang for living in affluence/wealth or to have it going on with money, cars, hoes, clothes, style, body, and pimping. It also refers to when one does something of great magnitude or pulls off an amazing accomplishment. All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23  Fifteen years after Major’s single, failed attempt to bolster his savings through drug dealing, his alarm went off at 6:00 a.m. He yawned, blinked the sleep from his eyes, and said, "Curtains open, lights on dim."  He stood up and stretched, looking at the sunrise and the lake in his back yard. He walked towards the window looked out the window and murmured, "Thank you, God!"   He went to his work desk and looked at the stack of papers waiting for his attention. Speaking under his breath to avoid waking his wife, he said, &qu