ChrisFig

A collection of the places I've been and the things I enjoy.

[Victoria @VictoriaNickell]

you would’ve had a field day

[New York Giants @Giants]

We can't wait ‼️

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

when Tyler Kolek saved Christmas 🎄

[ChrisFig @FigCJ]

@waitmaya 31

[My name is my name (H.N.I.C) @JahsThoughts]

This is my favorite shot of the entire Knicks title run

[Donda's Media @DondaNewss]

ANDRÉ TROTMAN absolutely KILLED it with the talkbox during ALL THE LOVE live in TAMPA NIGHT 2. 🎙️🔥

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[ChrisFig @FigCJ]

@Be_Humble2001 I’m not doing that again…

[VIBE Magazine @VibeMagazine]

Beanie Sigel and Memphis Bleek join Jay-Z on stage to perform “You, Me, Him and Her” at Roots picnic

[HOV_DID🐻 @_HOV_DID]

everybody please rise for the national anthem

[Matt Reeves Perfect Shots @perfectreeves]

#imminent. 🦇🦇🦇

[ChrisFig @FigCJ]

@BlkTriangleGrp @surajit_ghosh2 😂😂

[ye @kanyewest]

https://t.co/AVVqbhXrpJ

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

New World Prophecy. 🤔

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

The CIA sent me to Sudan to help the regime beef up their security and train officers in EOD. I used my real name, but I was “Captain” Mike Vining, because they wouldn’t be receptive to an NCO. This is what we call “low visibility” in Delta. I was issued a diplomatic passport.

[ChrisFig @FigCJ]

@BlkTriangleGrp 👀

[ChrisFig @FigCJ]

@mchooyah 😂

[ChrisFig @FigCJ]

@jockowillink Based

[Big Boi @BigBoi]

Daddy Fat Saxxx X Cadillac

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

"The temple will never be rebuilt. Julian the Apostate tried to rebuild it and it was destroyed in the process. Christ put an end to the Jewish sacrifice on purpose — he gave them one generation to convert to Christianity, and when they didn't, he put an end to their sacrifice. There hasn't been practicing Jews in 2,000 years because the temple hasn't been around."