Shadowing Practice: Romanticize your life - Learn English Speaking with Video

so i had a very busy day today

and the whole day i'm planning mentally okay you have to

finish one two three four five your workout go home have dinner

and then you have to film and

when i tell you i was this close to not filming

and then i open youtube and i see a few comments

and one most recent one on one of my videos just saying I've been going through such a hard time

and your last two videos helped me emotionally and spiritually

and I was like okay we need to get up and film which is alhamdulillah a great feeling it's

if you positively impact one person's life I think we

because of social media we tend to forget

that one soul is such a feat as it is you

know i think we get caught up in the numbers

and especially if you had a video go viral you think oh what's 20

when i can reach 20 000 what's 20 000

when i can reach 2 million what's 2 million

when i can reach 10 million which is such a skewed concept of reality

and and and time and people and energy

so i think what i'm trying to say is

if you can help one soul don't underestimate it

and don't shy away from it because we have forgotten the value

and the weight and the importance and the limitlessness of one soul so

if god gifts you with the opportunity to change even one person's life a child an elderly a sibling a colleague Like,

take that by the horns, like jump, dive in head first to try to help someone.

If one person goes to sleep saying, I'm looking forward to waking up tomorrow

because you had a hand in helping them or altering their mood or allowing them to see a light and have hope.

I don't understand how that's not a goal that we attempt to attain, if that makes sense

so I think um yeah it was a good little humbling wake -up call not

that I need a wake -up call in general I'm quite

what's the word I'm looking for uh I don't know what the word I'm looking for is

unattached yeah to social medium I don't really it's interesting

because I'm here obviously but But I took a break for the longest time.

And usually you're not supposed to because people tend to forget you, which is fine.

And I don't really care if a video goes viral or not.

I've said this before.

I'll post and it's my page and I just don't care.

Whoever's here is here and whoever isn't, isn't but I think the reminder

that I do have an impact is amazing

and I think that's what we should strive for affecting one person positively rather than the many

and I think when you aim for the one the many come

because the intention is pure and it's there but anyway

that was just the beginning of this video

but I do have a few things I want to say today I'm also not entirely sure

because it's been quite a hectic few days um my friend

and i were discussing because she's an entrepreneur and i'm an entrepreneur

and she's working on her own brand and i obviously have my eyewear brand

so before i start i'm just gonna say

because as i've said before my youtube community is my number one priority

and i love the community here i think people are more loyal people are more long -term

and people are very conscious with the content that they consume

so you have to go out of your way to press this video and watch it through it's not like other

social media platforms where they feed you said content right

and it's instantaneous and quick and volatile

so for my eyewear brand I'm very focused on it now

so I will be talking about it sometimes on this uh platform

but i will say uh just for my youtube followers

so i'm not posting this anywhere else tiktok instagram nowhere else

just here uh the code leila 30 i'll put it in the description box

so it's leila l -a -y -l -a 30 one word

and you guys get 30 off for the next three days

so from when this goes live 72 hours it'll be available where you guys get 30 off

and it's just for my YouTube community, because I told you guys a couple of videos ago,

I just, I'm, I'm here on YouTube and I just want to take this seriously and invest in it.

And there's something about just sitting here and talking to you guys.

That's fundamentally.

and viscerally different than any other platform and i just really enjoy it

and inshallah podcast with my dad will be back soon we've just been really busy anyway enough rambling

i was talking to my friend who owns her own no who's launching her own brand

so obviously you have to register the company and own it

and you have to go through the whole process of finding

the right factory finding the right team finding the right people bringing your vision to life samples trial

and error it's a very arduous and time -consuming process it is

and it's also quite costly if you don't have an investor

and if you're self -funding it can be it's quite the gamble uh

and you have to be smart you have to be meticulous

but you also have to have a lot of faith i'm very much the type

that i start something if i get the itch

if i get the passion if i get the idea i don't sit on it

and i don't wait on it

and i'm not the type of oh the brand name

and the logo need to be perfect before we even start i start

and i almost force the rest to follow suit

which is why i'm so adamant on law of attraction and

if you want something you just have to show up as

if it's already happened because like how do i say

that in english it's inevitable everything will follow suit the universe

will follow suit circumstances happenings it will just happen to make

way for what you already set course to make happen it's

a it's a it's a magical thing that's a visa you're here okay my point is

when you it's a phenomenal thing that when you set course on something

and you don't dwell over the little details

and this needs to be perfect and that needs to be perfect

which is more or less excuses just to impede you from starting to thwart your process

when you just start when you just dive in head first

and you go for it

and you put your best best attention into it your most positive intention

when i tell you the universe cannot help

but follow suit it cannot help but make way for what you set out to achieve because all of your energy, all of your passion, all of your thoughts,

all of your consciousness is driving this thing forward.

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And it's amazing how everything will fall into place to allow for what you claimed you wanted,

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what you showed you wanted to happen and transpire.

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It is magical how things will fall into place.

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So anyway, sorry, I get passionate about this stuff

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because i just remember how i launched certain projects and certain companies

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and subhanallah how things just happen and i was never the type

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that my colors needed to be ready or my branding

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or my logo i was like this will this is this will happen it'll come as we move forward

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and without fail it did every time

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so i'm talking to to my friend who's working on her brand

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and going through all these things

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because she's obviously just starting in the search for the right factory and the sampling and all of that.

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And I'm obviously a brand that's already launched and available.

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And we were just talking about certain things.

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And again, I'm very careful with saying certain things because I don't want to come off as always me, which trust and believe I do not ever feel that way.

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When, how do I say this correctly?

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When you launch your own thing, it's very interesting how people will disappear.

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And it's not that they disappear completely from your life it's just

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that they don't support you it's it's an interesting one

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and it's funny to me because i've seen this without huh it's the same way

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that when you're on social media okay i don't know

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if you guys have come across these people creating videos of

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saying i don't understand why you don't support your friends

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and just leave a like a comment a share like share

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it to yourself share it to them whatever it is

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if it helps boost like i see you guys under kim

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kardashian's posts i see you guys under hayley bieber like pop

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off queen what are you doing you know what i mean

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which fine if you support a celebrity and

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because you believe in their ethics and morals and values

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or maybe you just like their brand i don't know in

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the year of 2026 with everything that's taken place in palestine

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and gaza i think we should be very careful with who we support

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and who we put our money behind i just think

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that matters more than we let on

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but my point is you launch your brand people tend to not support

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when you see them with your own two eyes doing other things

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and it's interesting how she was explaining to me she's like babe

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when you have your own brand you have to do things

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yourself from start to finish do the content yourself do this yourself

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And it's true because no one's going to love your baby as much as you love your baby.

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No one's going to execute your vision the way you would execute your vision.

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And now you might say, yeah, but I'm not a photographer or I'm not a website developer or I'm not, I don't know how to do SEOs or paid media,

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which fine, mind you, I'm illiterate when it comes to all of these things as inexperienced as they come.

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But I also believe that God sends the right people at the right time.

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So with my first company, I have hired and fired some people who have really hurt me and betrayed me.

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And it took me about two years, if not more, to find Natalie, who works on my team now and is a delight.

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Mashallah, mashallah, may God bless her and reward her and protect her.

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Her birthday is actually in a couple of hours.

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It's tomorrow, 29th of September so and

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and she's been with me for a year

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and a half over a year and a half now

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and it took me a really long time to find her

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but I also as difficult as it was hiring people being betrayed firing them looking back now I'm

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so grateful that I went through everything I went through

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because it allowed for the finding of Natalie

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and then for the relationship with Natalie to transpire in the healthiest most abundant flourishing way

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and alhamdulillah we have a great relationship she's like my baby sister

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and i take care of her

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and i'm very protective over those who are loyal to me

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if you are loyal to me i am ride

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or die for you and i'd move heaven

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and earth to make sure you are safe you are covered and that you flourish and you live an abundant life

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so it just the whole conversation the whole reason i've gone

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on this whole journey with you guys to get here is

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i think it's okay sometimes to go at things alone not

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only do i think it's okay i think it's necessary

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because yes finding the right people and the right partners

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and the right team romantically platonically professionally in any field in your life you know what i mean it's a blessing.

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It's such a breath of fresh air, a dream come true to find the right people who are loyal, who are ride or die,

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who are not nefarious with their intentions or who backbite

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or any of those things that we unfortunately have been through far too many times with far too many people.

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Yeah, obviously finding the right people is a blessing

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and it's a dream and it's the ultimate goal

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but in order to get to said goal going through certain

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things alone is very necessary there is a beauty in loneliness

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that is often overlooked and it is

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that it allows you a carving in time to be with yourself

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and with God I've said it before at the end of the day you wake up

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and you go to sleep with yourself and

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if you do not allow your own company to be your

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favorite company to be a company you look forward to to be a company you cherish

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because you know who you are you know what you bring

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to the table you know your values you know your sense of humor you know these beautiful things

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that make up the totality of you and encompass you

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if you do not reach

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that level of genuine self -love it's a long way ahead

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with a lot of people who will show you exactly what

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you've shown yourself not loving your own company not respecting it

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not understanding your sense of humor not craving your soul you have to have an appreciation

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and a craving for it first and foremost yourself

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and I'm talking about a genuine divine connection everything else follows

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suit later it's like a waterfall in a river it trickles down

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and then spreads into the open waters and that's where you find real life and sustainability

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if that makes sense i don't know why my voice went

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sorry i i had a i think i have an allergy to macadamias even though i love a macadamia

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but I had some macadamias a week ago, and I felt very nauseous after.

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And then I had a macadamia cookie today, and I started choking.

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Like, I had that tickle in the back of my throat.

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I'm like, and I need to cough, and then it just wouldn't go away.

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And it reminded me of an atrocious moment I had in high school.

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I'm a shway fat girly.

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Well, the last two years, not a fan.

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Just going to be honest, not a fan.

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Don't even like my classmates, if I'm being honest there are very few

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that i still talk to and the majority i'm very okay never seeing again and never speaking to two because

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there was a lot of weirdness happening in

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that class my point is I was in an exam what

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they call them there I don't even remember what they called them the ones we had weekly

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which I think is a form of slavery and I got

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that tickle and I started choking in the middle of this

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and no one

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and the worst part is is the teachers look at you like what are you doing

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and I'm like no I'm ma 'am I'm dying okay so

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that happened to me today after I ate a macadamia

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so my throat's been a little a little floof floof a little fluff

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but I'm fine um

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and I don't think it's an allergy like hives I just think internally my body has an aversion towards it

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which is you know fine all fine and dandy

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but yeah I think going at things alone is so important I think

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there's a roomie quote i put it on my self -stack

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i did put it on my self -stack let me see

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if i can find it dania called dania i'm filming this

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i'll call you back later oh found it okay this is

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bismillah i put it on my self -stack it's this one

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inception you can see me no you can't see my texts

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though bismillah it says whenever you are alone remind yourself

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that god has sent everyone else away so

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that there is only you in him and

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that completely metamorphosed my relationship with quote unquote loneliness because

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that means you need to go back home

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that means you need a moment of respite

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and you need to rid yourself of these distractions

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and go back home that means something in your life is off balance is askew

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and you need to take a step back and go back home

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and I also wrote on Substack I think I mentioned this before

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but if you claim oh I'm so alone I'm so lonely I'm

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so alone without you realizing without even recognizing it you are denying your belief in the existence of God

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because it is an impossibility for you to be alone God is always with you it's just your recognition of

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that or your refusal to acknowledge it but whether you choose to see it

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or not it doesn't change the fact that he is there

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but your refusal to see it just makes life a lot harder

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and a lot makes it feel heavier

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and makes it feel a lot less a lot more lonely and a lot darker and

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suffocating i think it's that one second

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because this this cat's making some noise i don't know

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if you guys could hear it in the background

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but i have my bad i have a piano in my house i've had it for a couple years

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because i do play the piano

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and she's been with me since she was 40 days old right this this little kitty cat is two years

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and four or five months old now and she's never

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gone near the pedals of the piano you know the three pedals at the bottom

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and for some reason today it's just her pride

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and joy it's all she wants to do is go play

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with them scratch them bite them at very interesting my point

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is I think embrace these challenges embrace the going at things

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alone this is what genuinely romanticizing your life means Dania welcome back to the chat

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because she and I had this conversation when she stayed at mine

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and it's a very interesting one we talk about romanticizing your life

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and we think it's going to grab a matcha on your

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own taking yourself out on a date grabbing your favorite book

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and going to sit in the park and reading a few chapters

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and these are all beautiful things to happen beautiful things

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that you should take the time to do agreed but i think i think the divine definition of romanticizing your life

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is recognizing anything that goes wrong anything

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that happens exactly the way you didn't want it to

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that is the pristine moment

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and the exact gift from god moment for you to romanticize your life it's this blessing a hidden blessing

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so for example let's say your dream is to find your life partner it hasn't happened yet

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and something goes wrong a bad date or this feeling of loneliness suddenly overtakes you today, right?

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Because there's a full moon.

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Rather than succumb to the feeling of depression or sadness or negativity, this is when you romanticize your life.

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This is when you make it a game and you make it exciting and you say, okay, God's basically giving me an opportunity to recognize what it is that I still need to fix.

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He's telling me, you're just not ready yet.

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Something needs to be improved.

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Something needs to be fine -tuned.

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And you go and you figure that out.

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And maybe it's oh, I'm struggling to be alone.

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No, I have to embrace my own company so that my partner can embrace my own company.

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It's, oh, I want to be a parent, a mother or a father.

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If I can't be alone, what am I going to teach my kids?

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God forbid they meet a bully.

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God forbid they have a falling out with their friend.

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God forbid they go through what everyone goes through, which it's gonna happen.

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It's gonna happen.

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What are you going to teach them if they witness

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that you as a parent don't know how to be alone this is what romanticizing your life is it's

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when things go the most strong

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when you're like oh okay what can i learn here this is exciting it's time for me myself

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and i to learn a new trick to pick up a

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new hobby to improve a bad habit this is romanticizing your life

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and subhanallah i had quite a tumultuous weekend not in a bad way

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because never in a bad way this universe is always working in our favor

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and even when i'm on the phone to my mother

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or my father and i'm explaining like i'm in shambles over something work related

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and i'm like

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and my mom's just like i don't know i don't want

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to see you this side i'm like no you don't understand i'm

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so happy it's just i'm crying and when i promise you

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when i tell you that i promise you I'm bawling

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but in my mind I'm like this is fantastic

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because this is the carving out of exactly what I needed to happen you know I know

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that the best is gonna come after this it's I'm telling

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you guys it's a really funny thing you will start going through things

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and laughing at yourself you will laugh while you cry

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while you are crying you're going to be thinking I'm

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so giddy and excited

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because it's about to get real good it's delusion in the best way it's it's delusion

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that is driven by faith rather than by ego it's the delusion of i know everything's gonna work out

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because god has my back it's the delusion of gratitude will

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get me what i want it's the delusion of what bismillah what's the ayah um

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so with every hardship there is ease it's

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that delusion it's the delusion of that's not even delusion actually that's the quran that's true

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but we have been so accustomed to things going wrong

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that we think it's delusional to be optimistic i just blew my own mind

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because that kind of just hit me right now that's

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so true that's sorry guys i'm just having a moment sometimes

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when i realize things that's so true we call optimism delusion

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and we look at people who are optimistic

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and who see the cup as half empty and runneth over overflowing

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and that i can give everyone and share we see

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that as delusion when we as muslims in the quran were told

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if you are grateful i will give you more with every

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hardship there is ease we have been told to be delusionally optimistic

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and it's not delusion

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that is based in faith it's it's it's real it's just faith driven rather than fear and ego driven wow wow

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i feel like i want to cry um i love having moments like this this is

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if you guys wanted to take a glimpse into my mind

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and how i film these this is this is basically it

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but i usually come to you guys after the realization

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and having applied it for a long time

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so i just come to you guys like yeah it's one two three it's so easy

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but this is how i come to these uh it's an

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amazing thing what god will make you wake up to it's an amazing thing

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how much god will push you in the right direction

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when you just come like knocking

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and be like hey i need a little bit of help uh i love these moments

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because i know it sounds so silly

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because i've probably said these things on my podcast a million times like god has promised you

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and you should be optimistic and law of attraction

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but i think it's just the awakening to humanity of of we're

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so accustomed to the negativity we're so accustomed to what

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if it goes wrong we're so accustomed to panic and anxiety attacks

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because everyone loves a label and big pharma has an agenda

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and social media has just normalized so many things

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that no shouldn't be normal you should not be having a

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panic attack at 19 mine started at 19 alhamdulillah they're gone now

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but these aren't normal things and we've normalized the abnormal and we've taken the normal which is this

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ridiculous optimism in god this unwavering blind faith that things will work out

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and we've made that abnormal and that to me is why i'm having this moment now because

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because it's just it's sad i think it's really sad

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and i know a lot of people might hear this

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or i could have these conversations with people and there's always

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that resist that resistance because it's just years of indoctrination

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and programming and what you're used to and like i said

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if you grew up watching your parents behave this way it's

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it's very hard to snap out of it's truly almost miraculous

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when you break a generational cycle and a curse for lack of a better word

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because i think it is a curse i saw um

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so in my building we have four elevators

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and one of them is the service elevator

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so every every elevator has the mirror except

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that one where it's another door

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that in the ground floor opens to the service entry

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and this is when if people are moving or furniture

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or whatever delivery drivers bless their souls they come in through

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that elevator but that elevator is also accessible to us and

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when you request an elevator if that happens to come by you just take it

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and this was a couple weeks ago quite recent I was coming home

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so I was in the garage in the parking lot

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and uh wanting to come up

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and there was this lady with her two children um Lebanese French

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and I'd heard them speak French a few times so

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when the elevator opened she's like oh that one's dark um I don't take it you know so I

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wanted to see this and I was like you know what

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because it came out of your mouth I'm gonna take it

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as a sign not to take this one today you know

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and spoke to her in French and you could tell

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when I spoke to her in French she kind of relaxed

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and I get into the elevator

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and we speak a little bit her children are quite beautiful the daughter is older

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and then the son and they're they're young I think I think the son might be eight

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and the daughter might be ten around those um very malleable age very sponge absorbent age

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and we spoke a bit they got off on their floor

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and then i got off on mine and i was just thinking how again shaykh hamza yusuf said the dua

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of let me bring it back up for you guys that

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when you see someone go through something or behave in a certain way

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that you don't like instead of disrespecting it or just going like

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that could never be me you should say this dua if i ever find it yes bismillah alhamdulillah

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i'm not exactly sure because i have it written in english um

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so that's dua inshallah but i just remember taking a moment

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and looking up to god and saying don't allow me please

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if i'm ever blessed with children to transfer my fears onto them

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so haphazardly without even recognizing that i am

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and i think that's what kind of startled me with this appearance

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and many other mind you she might be a great mom

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i'm just talking about this specific thing i'm not one to judge parents

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because i hope that they're doing the best that they possibly can

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and her kids were very calm

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and very the way they spoke to each other was very loving

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and sweet so inshallah all good in that house

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but what i'm saying is she unintentionally allowed them to inherit a fear because

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that little boy might turn into a 35 year old man

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who just kind of tells his wife no i can't go into

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that elevator who might then with his son be like oh i can't go into

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that elevator and i think it's something to consider

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so i took that as a learning opportunity to romanticize my life

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and wake myself up to the fact

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that okay there are a few internal fears we still have to work on because we don't want to

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um pass those on we don't want someone to inherit them

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because we didn't do the work and we didn't take the time to say some things need to be improved

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so yeah anyway that's my video for the day i romanticize your life that's the point of this

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but yeah um

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if you have an idea go at it alone until god sends the right people at the right time

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but i've always said everything you go through is allowing you to amass

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and acquire the tools and the knowledge

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and the wisdom to get you to where you need to get

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so enjoy the journey that's romanticizing the life

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and that's what enjoy the journey means it means romanticize it embrace every second of it acknowledge

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that it serves a purpose and a positive one at that

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and everything will follow suit it's subhanallah nothing is uh accidental it's very much on purpose

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and there is a beauty to how god does things it's just about seeing it believing it

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and embracing it and then your life just becomes beautiful by default you know

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and beautiful by default is a great thing it's a thing to aspire to because who doesn't love beauty

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Romanticize your life”. This video has 423 sentences and 5069 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:31. The speaker talks at a natural 172 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
elevator noun	/ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/	Anything that raises or uplifts.
embrace verb	/ɛmˈbɹes/	To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
loyal adjective	/ˈlɔɪəl/	Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
blessing noun	/ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/	Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
optimistic adjective	/ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/	Expecting the best in all possible ways.
accustomed adjective	/əˈkʌs.təmd/	Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person)
piano noun	/piˈænɪː/	A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers…
bless verb	/blɛs/	To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
stack noun	/stæk/	A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
forbid verb	/fɚˈbɪd/	To disallow; to proscribe.
loneliness noun	/ˈloʊnlinəs/	A feeling of depression resulting from being alone or from having no companions.
passion noun	/ˈpæʃən/	A true desire sustained or prolonged.
hire verb	/ˈhaɪɹ/	To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
genuine adjective	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/	Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native.
remind verb	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
look forward to verb		To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
come across verb		To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
come off verb		To become detached.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

When, how do I say this correctly?
I'm a shway fat girly.
He's telling me, you're just not ready yet.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have forgotten · I've said · we've just been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	film which is · million which is · you, which is
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being betrayed · are covered · is often overlooked

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 148 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, ethics /ˈɛθ.ɪks/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: passion /ˈpæʃən/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
Long words — get the stress right: elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, optimistic /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, positively /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/, optimism /ˈɑptɪmɪzəm/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like elevator, embrace, loyal.

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