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Oh my god, is that who I think it is?
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Oh my god, is that who I think it is?
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Looking so cute and scrumptious?
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It's been so long since we last caught up!
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I mean over a year since New York City!
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Glad you're here in sunny San Francisco and we can catch up again.
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Life at 28 before I turn 29 in two months.
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How has the Bay been treating you?
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Honestly, I moved here end of last year without a lot of expectations
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but it has been absolutely stunning beautiful and I can't wait to show you guys around today.
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Is it scary getting closer to 30?
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I'm 22 and scared haha.
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Well you shouldn't be scared you're quite a far ways away from 30
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but personally I think it's kind of exciting like I'm looking
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forward to it I feel like every age is a new chapter.
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The intention I have in my mind for what my 30s will look like is a lot more
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calm and stable more grounded less bopping around
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and i can see being more also family oriented health oriented
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career-wise i feel like having the experience from my 20s like building up courage
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and clarity i feel like i could execute bigger
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and better things especially seeing friends who are like a year
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older than me have a toddler raise a human child i'm just like wow that's so crazy.
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I feel like once you can do that,
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the most insane human feat possible,
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the world is your oyster.
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You can do anything.
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It's really pickled.
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If you experience changes to your body,
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i.e. gray hair, how are you feeling about it?
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Yeah, I feel like the past year I've been really noticing changes in my body.
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I have one white hair that I refuse to pluck.
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The thing with these
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new additions it feels like a really good reminder to take better care of my body
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because I feel like in my 20s
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or just younger I think I took a lot of L's pulling all-nighters in university
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and like early YouTube career that I look back on
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and I'm like that really didn't need to happen
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and I think the more you push your body you will feel the effects later down the line
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so I'd rather have this wake-up call now
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because we cannot control the fact that we are aging
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but we can try to influence the speed in which we are aging.
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I would say my intention for this year is building more resilience in my creative practice slash career.
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Focusing on just showing up and creating rather than worrying,
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being a perfectionist, fixated on the outcome,
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the performance, or any negative feedback from other people
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that is gone goodbye okay this year's intention being brave and showing up consistently no matter the outcome yeah
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this is a really funny question what do you tubers do
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if not posting on youtube how do your days look like the reality is i feel like making videos
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so much of your time is actually editing and posting is like the most brief moment in time.
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If it's longer and there's scripting involved,
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like my 30 days of sailing video,
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that took me three months or two to three months to edit.
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I think a lot of other times actually doing emails like admin,
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negotiating brand deals, reviewing contracts.
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Some creators have managers so they'll just like give 20% of their income to their manager to help them do that.
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I think my dream job would be to open a physical space,
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something really calming and inviting like this one.
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I would really want to serve very nutritious,
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wholesome food like freshly made soy milk with jujubi dates and like black sesame seeds,
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pumpkin millet congee, very warming foods that can be really healing to the community
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and also be plant-based for the animals I don't know
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if I would label myself as a minimalist I think I'm someone
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that I don't like owning too much stuff I don't like clutter I like to have essentials
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while also pieces and items that I really enjoy nowadays
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when I do buy things I really try to focus on finding brands that focus on quality over quantity,
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timeless designs over trends, and I've actually been in the market for a pair of jeans for a really long time.
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I've been wearing my friend's hand-me-downs,
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so this is the first pair of jeans I've picked up in the past six years.
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They are the Dark Indigo 70s Cut from Cezanne.
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These are God-certified organic cotton.
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I also really like they're wide leg jeans as well for more slouchy fit but I went with this cut.
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I think it hugs the waist perfectly.
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I got like a slightly looser fit in the 38 and they are very long.
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I think I want to keep them long so I can either cuff them or wear them slouchy.
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They also have a lot of great basic tees.
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Simple cuts but really cute details so you can wear them on any occasion.
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Yeah I just love how versatile and timeless everything is.
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If you're looking for wardrobe staples that you can wear for a lifetime.
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Go check them out.
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I will link all of my favorite pieces from them down below.
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This spot is so nice.
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Une petite clementine asks, do you have any tips on having a good relationship to money?
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I'm struggling as a 21 year old.
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Yes I do.
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I'm actually so glad you asked because this has been a huge focus in my life the past maybe two years.
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Most people don't realize
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that we like in love have attachment styles we also have attachment styles to money
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that is affected by our childhood the society community we grow up in
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and just this system that we live in at large i think one of the first things
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that you can do is definitely taking notes of your habits
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and your behaviors around money to notice patterns two is i actually asked my friend who is a therapist
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to help me create a series of digital workshops centered around
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healing your relationship with money it's called rooted in ease
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and it ties in her practice of art therapy as well
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so there are eight different workshops
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that have journaling prompts guided meditations an art making exercise
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if you are interested i asked her if we could share
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or give away like the first workshop in the series for free
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so that'll be up on the website you can go check it out it is about attachment style
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this is the only thing i can do
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welcome to one of my favorite parts of the city the panhandle exercise park
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when i notice myself feeling anxious or rushed in my body the first thing i do is to
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make myself take some deep breaths and then i repeat to myself this is not an emergency
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i feel like a lot of times our body is stuck in this cycle of urgency especially
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if we spend a lot of time on screens
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and consuming very stimulating things so i think it's nice to remind yourself
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that there's enough time for everything focusing on one task at a time really helps
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and just let myself know like which project is the priority so I'm not overwhelmed with a million things.
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Oh my god.
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Oh that was really hard.
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I think this one's the heaviest one.
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How do you deal with unexpected failure in life?
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One thing I saw that I really liked is to say I can't wait to see why this didn't work out.
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I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason and
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that there's always like this better plan for you so if something didn't work out there's something better in store for you.
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A book I recently read
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that really helped to rewire my brain is called The Courage to Be Dislight
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because I think sharing your life on the internet can be I don't know
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if intense is the right word
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but it's definitely been the thing that's like challenged my sense
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of self the most this book really helped me to not take on the judgment of
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and opinions of other people too much it also makes you realize
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that like a lot of your fears don't actually have to do with the tasks itself
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but more in how you'll be perceived by others so i think
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that really helps me with resistance in terms of editing
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or just certain things in my life so highly recommend the courage to be disliked
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what is bringing you comfort these days i've brought you here
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to my comfort place the park being in nature makes me feel very grounded very connected
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when the world feels really intense and one of the things
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that has been making me really excited is foraging
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and like learning to identify plants
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so i've brought you here to this patch of miner's lettuce
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because i've recently learned that they actually taste like butter lettuce nice
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and crunchy very neutral flavor very hydrating they like to grow
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in the shade i think it's empowering to know what grows around you having this name
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and connection with it it makes you feel like you know
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the earth provides food all around me this whole patch
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that no one even planted it just popped up and
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that just makes me feel so safe and held by mother earth
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so i highly recommend there's also some poisonous hemlock here apparently
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that's like a really popular poison in the middle ages there's also some yarrow growing here
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which is actually known to be very effective in stopping bleeding
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and wounds so you can put it in your mouth kind of chew it into a paste
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and apply it to wherever you're bleeding say you're on a hike
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or something it actually will stop bleeding super mediate oh and there's some sour grass tastes like sour jelly beans
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so cool hi you're looking awfully handsome i don't think i've grown up aspiring
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or like really thinking that much about being a mom
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but i feel like seeing some of my friends have kids
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and just seeing how differently they're raising them has honestly been
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like really inspiring personally i I would be very open to having kids.
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I feel like it would be
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so cool to share all the things I love about this world with them
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and just like help support them and mentor them as they become their own human, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, thank you.
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Wow, thank you so much, Chokun.
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Any plans or thoughts on marriage?
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I have to say that it's been something that I've been talking about
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that definitely has been in the planning or discussion and thinking phase.
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It's pretty exciting, also nerve wracking at the same time because you know,
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I've never done it before.
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So stay tuned and we'll see how it goes.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I really like the flower trees here.
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You can wear them.
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What do you do when times feel hopeless?
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Yeah, that's a really great question.
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It definitely, especially these days, does not feel easy.
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A lot of things feel uncertain and hopeless or pointless.
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But one book that I came across that really helped me is Read This When Things Fall Apart.
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This book has a lot of different letters from different writers and activists.
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When I found this in the bookstore,
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I opened to read this if you're panicking about collapse and this letter,
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even though it's only five pages,
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really helped give me a lot of solace.
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He makes one point that I think is really valid.
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In the law of physics, there is entropy.
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Everything falls apart and that is a given.
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None of this lasts forever and we know that.
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We don't look at a child and ask, what's the point?
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Why educate them?
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Why feed them?
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They are just going to die someday.
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That scenario is ridiculous and we routinely invest in things that will not last forever.
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So if none of this is permanent, what is the point?
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Through studying the ball of civilizations,
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he talks about how collapse can span generations,
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but those people and those communities are what mattered.
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They created meaningful lives during a larger disaster,
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and even in the midst of societal collapse,
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those needs remain anything we do to improve our situation now can be used to create a new reality
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or improve upon the one in
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which we find ourselves we can't start ignoring the present
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because an image of the future that seems hopeless for
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that vision is undoubtedly simplistic and one-dimensional compared to the future in
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which we will live i think even for me making videos sometimes feels very silly
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and this letter talking about the importance of everything
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that we do you your actions investing in your community sends a message and can change the future.
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By providing an example of someone who still cares,
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who still works, you never know who you might inspire or what change you might help bring about.
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Be that example.
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Keep being that example.
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Sincerely, Chris Begley.
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I'm going to be fine.
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please give me advice on long distance relationships i don't know
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if i'm a good person to ask about long distance relationships
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because i feel like it doesn't bother me as much as other people
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or even my partner i think my best advice would be to just focus on your own life,
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your own hobbies, joys, friends.
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I think love can show up in so many different ways.
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I feel like so many of my soulmates are my friends
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and definitely having an end goal in mind and like knowing that you will live in the same city is really important.
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But in the meantime, I do like to ask my partner
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before we're going to be apart for a few months to write me a letter
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that I can take with me and read when I miss him and that really helps me a lot.
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That's a full dip.
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Favorite dates with your partner?
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I would say honestly, for me, anything learning or outdoors.
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Since we came to SF,
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we did like a kelp foraging workshop, which was so fun.
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Plant identification, herbalism workshops.
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I kind of just make him go to things they want to do, lol.
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And then tomorrow, this other creator in the Bay Area reached out
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and I saw that her and her boyfriend do swing dancing
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so we're actually gonna go to Golden Gate Park and do swing dancing with them.
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We've never done it before but I think that'll be really fun.
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Come here.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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What are your favorite kind of dates to go on together?
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When we go on hikes like in the park or when we go on a road trip?
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Yeah.
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Grab food.
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Vegan food.
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Yeah, vegan food.
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We play backgammon together before bed.
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Yeah, we play a lot of backgammon.
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She's destroyed me seven games in a row at this point.
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We have a dried mango pit that we use as like our trophy
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and that mango pit goes on like either one of our bedside tables
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when we win and it's been on my bedside table for pretty long time.
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Yeah, I've kind of given up.
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Thanks for participating.
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He keeps coming back with his toy.
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He's obsessed.
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