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Reviewer Gopal When I was in the sixth grade,
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Reviewer Gopal When I was in the sixth grade,
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my friends and I, at such a pivotal moment in our lives,
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realized how bored we were.
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There was a lack of excitement in our adventures.
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We had found that we had done everything we could possibly think of to fill in an empty space of time.
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We'd have sleepovers, play video games,
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watch movies, walk around the neighborhood.
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And even after all of this, we were still bored.
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And the worst part about this was that we knew that other kids felt the same thing too.
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So after talking and discussing amongst ourselves,
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we realized that as much as we tried to fix our boredom,
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We weren't doing anything substantial about it.
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That's why we decided that we wanted to make people laugh.
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We wanted to make funny videos that joked about things that no one really joked about.
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We wanted to joke about our quirky,
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quiet town of Alton, Texas.
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Now, I'd love to tell you that I'm here to share that my videos have millions of views
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and that I've sold tons of merchandise worldwide.
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But unfortunately, like many of the ideas that we have,
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we never made our videos, our idea, a reality.
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I know right now there's probably at least one of you who's like,
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man, this guy's depressing.
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Is he gonna keep talking like this?
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But there's a reason.
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As time went on, more and more of us left the group until eventually all of us left the group.
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All of us, except for one.
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My friend couldn't let go of his idea.
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So after we all left in the sixth grade,
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he decided to make a team.
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Members would come in and leave out, fluctuate.
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He learned how to use complex computer software,
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and he learned how to work with cameras.
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He would make videos on drama,
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comedy, things here and there.
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And I didn't know any of this because I hadn't seen or talked to him in six years.
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My friend, the one who never gave up on his idea,
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has now launched his own videography company.
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Like him and the rest of the world,
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we all have tons of ideas every day.
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And there was something different about him.
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Because six years ago, my group of friends and I,
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we all had the same idea.
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But he was the only one who actually saw it through.
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How many of you ever feel a drive inside of you that tells you, take a chance?
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What if?
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Why not?
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For many of us, while we're sitting down at work,
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eating lunch or waiting to drift off to sleep,
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we get a sense of that feeling,
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that drive that we had.
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And then, after a few minutes of reminiscing,
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we continue doing what we're doing.
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For some of us, that feeling comes around often.
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It makes us remember how we always wanted to start our own band,
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take a road trip with our friends,
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or even something small like clean up the trash in our local park.
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And it sucks, because the thing that you remember the most out of everything is the fact that you didn't do it.
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My friends and I, while we were in the process of making these videos,
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we had so many opportunities to get something done.
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I can remember how many times an adult came up to us and told us,
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hey, I actually might know some things.
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A kid would come and tell us I know how to edit videos,
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or even amongst ourselves, we would tell each other,
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you can come over to my house and we'll work on it.
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All opportunities that we never actually took.
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As time went on, I realized that I had to stop giving up my ideas.
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Years and years went by,
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and we never met up,
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I never had the opportunity to explore that idea.
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I had many ideas each day,
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but they would all pass by.
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Until eventually, I came upon an idea that I couldn't afford to let go of.
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An idea that I couldn't afford to regret.
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That idea was the South Texas Ideas Festival, STXI.
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I come from a place where typically youth are not encouraged to do better.
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They are discouraged.
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They feel that they can't do the things that many other people can do.
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And this was a problem because we didn't want this to happen anymore.
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We didn't want people to feel like they needed to leave our home to do something better.
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Our festival was student-led.
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With a team of high school students,
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we put on a festival that hosted 300 students from across our region.
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And it was great.
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We received tons of commendations for it.
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And I know it sounds like an overnight success story,
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but it really wasn't.
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And one of the main questions that people would ask us was,
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where did you get the drive to do this?
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When I was a little kid,
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I learned a lot from what was going on around me.
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I came from a home where the only way to make a living was to pick up plastic bottles
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and cans and sell them to processing plants.
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My first real job was helping a woman set up her
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booth at a flea market from 7 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon for $20.
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My neighbor's son learned how to cut hair when he was eight years old
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because it was the only way he and his family could afford a haircut.
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At such a momentous time in my life,
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I thought that I was limited,
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that my community was limited,
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my neighborhood was limited, all because of our circumstances.
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And then came my crazy grandpa.
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I went home, and one day he was watching TV,
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and he told me, Michael, look, I want this.
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Not the horse, the pole.
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It's a horse patience pole.
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It basically teaches a horse to be patient.
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And he told me, I want this.
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And I asked him, how are you going to afford it?
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We don't have the money.
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And he said, I'll find a way.
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So I forgot about it.
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I was walking around the house.
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And during that time, he left,
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and he got a wheelchair from I have no idea where,
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and and a giant metal pole from I have no idea where.
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And when I got back home,
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I went into the backyard,
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and this is what I saw.
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My crazy grandpa had cut the wheelchair in half,
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attached it to the top of the pole,
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stood it upright, and tied the horse to it.
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And in just three days,
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we not only taught the horse how to stand still,
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we taught it how to run in circles.
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And I remember when I saw this,
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I was, my mind was blown away,
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because I had never seen someone take that initiative to do something, despite the odds.
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And thinking about it now,
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now that I'm older, I realize that I'm not that impressed in the actual poll,
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because at the end of the day, it's just a poll.
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I was more impressed in the fact that my grandpa went out and did it.
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He didn't let resources get in the way of his idea.
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He didn't find a reason not to do it.
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He didn't choose to experience regret.
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If you feel that idea,
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that tug, then I'm telling you,
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do what my grandpa did,
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because that same drive that he had is what made the South Texas Ideas Festival possible.
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It was a team of high school students we had no idea what we were doing,
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we just knew that we wanted to present a big festival to the people of our community,
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to show them everything we got.
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If you feel like an idea is worth something,
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be it yours or someone else's,
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if you feel that an idea is worth time constraints,
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rejections, and failures, then let me give you a piece of advice.
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Stop what you're doing, put down your phone,
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pause the TV show that you're watching,
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hold off on that nap for five more minutes, and think.
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You're bored, right?
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Well, now is the perfect opportunity for you to take that road trip,
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the perfect opportunity for you to start that band,
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the perfect opportunity to clean up some trash.
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Now, the next time that you're bored,
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I beg of you, I implore you to get excited,
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because you might just be onto your next best idea.
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Thank you.
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