跟读练习: I can't get over the fact that I've wasted my teenage years - 通过视频学习英语口语
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I can't get over the fact that I've wasted my teenage years.
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I've wasted 1,368 days of my life.
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I calculated it.
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It's going on almost four years, and it started the first day of my freshman year in high school.
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Until now.
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And maybe not all of those days were a waste.
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I mean, maybe it's a bit of an overestimate, but I'd say maybe 95% of it.
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at least the experience of 95% of it was a waste.
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And it's so disappointing.
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And I have so much regret.
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And I just wish, I don't know if I wish I could go back because those years, probably the worst years of my life,
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but I wish, I just wish I did better.
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I wish I tried harder
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and yeah there's a lot of things I would have done differently
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and it's not it's not good to to regret
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but it's almost like a lesson I wish I just stopped
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I wish I stopped telling myself to do the thing
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and I wish I just did it I wish I stopped trying to plan it and I wish I just did it.
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I wish I stopped trying to make up for not doing it and just did it.
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And that is the biggest thing.
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You know what?
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That cycle of being in this debt, feeling like you have to make something up, feeling like, you know, you wasted all this time.
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So now you got to work faster, work harder.
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And then that is what's going to make up for all that lost time.
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And by thinking that, I never did anything.
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It just put a lot of dread on me.
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It put a lot of just this distress and it amounted to absolutely nothing.
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And here I am now.
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I'm 18 and I have a couple years, maybe a year and a half left of my teenage years
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and I don't know it's just maybe even half a year
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I'm not sure how you want to look at it
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but it's it's weird to think about
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because I never thought I'd be in the position I am today based off my age
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but also I didn't really have any expectations I look back
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and I think my eighth grade year was kind of this finality.
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The last time I felt normal and since then life has changed a lot.
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The way I look at things, the way I perceive and what I want and what I do and it's like it's like this rabbit hole.
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And part of me thinks, you know, maybe if I took action back then,
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maybe it wouldn't have been as good because, you know, it would have led me down a different path.
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Maybe that's also just cope.
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But one thing, one thing I can't say is what I want now is completely different than what I wanted
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when I was 14, 15, 16, 17.
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And I think back to the person who I was
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and I think maybe to some extent it's good that I didn't take action.
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That sounds bad.
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And like I said, maybe it's just coke.
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But it's like, here's one thing that I wanted.
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That sounds so stupid and like maybe egotistical and prideful.
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But what I wanted is I wanted a Porsche.
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And when I say that, I don't mean like, okay, I really wanted this.
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I better get it, you know.
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It's not like that.
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It's just like this imagination, this sort of like dream, right?
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Like, man, if I got a Porsche, I'd be cool.
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I'd drive it around and then people would look at me and think I'm something.
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I wanted to be an entrepreneur and all that.
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And for some reason I cared about that stuff.
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And to anyone, I'm not saying it's bad to want a Porsche.
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I'm not saying it's bad to want nice things.
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A Porsche is cool.
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I still think a Porsche is a really cool car.
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But I don't care anymore.
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And I think the person I am now would be like, I could never justify spending $200,000 on a vehicle,
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even if I was like a millionaire.
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I don't know if I could get myself to do it because I just, I'm thinking of all the other things that would be better or how I could do something,
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you know, more real or helpful with that money
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but I look back at that person of myself and I think
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if that version of me got what they wanted then me now would be would just be shallow
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or less of a person or just not good
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because although I don't want that anymore it's like even the person I was
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that did want that it's it's like misaligned
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and it wasn't good you know it was just rooted in in wanting
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and desire and in ego and in insecurity as well
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so it's like okay I didn't take action I didn't get a Porsche
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or whatever I didn't get that towards the ideal yet over time I realized
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It's not what I want at all matter of fact, it's it's kind of shallow and it's
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It's for me personally as a person just me personally if I were to do that I would be like I
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would in some sense be like
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Like I would hate myself for doing that Like
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if I saw myself like that the person I am now if I saw that I'd be like dude, you're so lost so It's it's it's a mix of things.
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It's like
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you could have taken action
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and let's say you were like successful you got what you wanted at
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that time then maybe you know who would you be today
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and it's it's a lot of things but also it's like
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I in my mind I was like ambitious like you know
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I want to learn all these instruments I want to learn
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multiple different languages I want to do all this stuff I want to learn calisthenics
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or whatever and honestly these things are still stuff I'm interested in
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but looking back I wonder or even now I think how much of that is vanity?
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How much of it personally do I actually want for myself, for my own personal fulfillment versus how much of it is just like,
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man, if a person was like some type of profile and I read that profile, I would be like, man, that guy's cool.
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Like, is it just so I can seem like someone interesting?
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Is it just so I can, you know, it's like a party trick
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and where like wow this guy's intelligent this guy's smart like
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or do i actually want it because i love languages
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and i love culture and all these things
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and like i just wonder like worrying about not accomplishing those things is like a wonder
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because what did i actually want it for what did i
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want it for did i want it for the love of the thing itself or for the love
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of attention or this desire to be seen as established
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or intelligent or something like that so although i still do want to learn
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and explore these are things that like are inherent
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and i do genuinely want for meaning's sake back then it was like hmm why Why?
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And if the why is not a good one,
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then getting that thing isn't as satisfying or as worth it.
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So that's something I've learned.
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To be really more conscious of your why.
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What are you doing this for?
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And to what end is it supposed to fulfill or meet?
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And throughout those years, I felt really just lost.
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I felt like I wasn't doing anything with my life because I wasn't.
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I just, you know, I'd wake up, I was like super insecure.
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I just went to school.
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I didn't have any friends, you know, and it was school to me was just like work.
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And it's, it's, it is, um, it's a privilege to be able to go to school and get an education.
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But like for me, school was literally just school and I hated it.
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I hated it so much because that it wasn't a place where I felt at home.
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There wasn't anyone that was like, hey, school's bad, at least I got these people There wasn't that,
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it was just, I got myself And I can't rely on myself, hardly, even today, you know So,
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it led down to a spiral of inaction And,
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I guess, mental deterioration but you live and you learn, right?
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That's what I hope.
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The only thing I can say is at least I'm still young and I've come to this realization
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maybe earlier than most people do or maybe not.
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I don't know.
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But all I can say is the person I am today is the culmination of all those things.
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All those nights where I just like couldn't sleep because I was thinking so much.
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All the time in school where I just like was so anxious.
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Even, you know, the great times.
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The times where I was like really able to appreciate life a lot
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and come to these new realizations and meet new people.
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it was
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it wasn't maybe it wasn't all a waste cause life you can't
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you can't make you can't put life in that box this was a waste you know guess you just gotta
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chalk that over there that was a waste of my life whatever
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because like how much of it can be a waste like
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if you didn't learn absolutely anything if you stayed the same exact person
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then then maybe so but i'm totally different now i'm not the person who i want to be
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nowhere near it heck i'm like barely barely out of the negative like
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if you look at like how i perceive myself as like like there's the base
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and like below zero
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and then there's like the top like you've grown yourself it's
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like I was like all the way down here like you can't even see it
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and now I'm starting to get back up to like this
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area that's just this baseline of the person who I want to be
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and I'm just just climbing back up and that's that's where I've been
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and maybe maybe it's just like a part of it because the more I look back I realize maybe it was necessary
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Maybe I had to go through it.
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Maybe not all of it.
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Maybe a lot of it was self-inflicted I could have treated myself better or looked at things in a different way, but also I didn't know that It's like this quote.
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I'm not sure how it goes exactly, but it's like You have to forgive yourself for not knowing what only time could teach you
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And It's that's all I can sum it up as
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And if I if I continue to try and make up this time debt,
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the 1,368 days, then I'm going to be making it up for the rest of my life
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because it will never be fulfilled.
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It will never be repaid because it just keeps stacking up, just living in the past,
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trying to repay what doesn't need to be repaid, what doesn't need to be justified,
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what doesn't even need to be relived, you know, because living in the past,
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that is the worst thing.
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That is what will keep you down.
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Because all throughout those years, that is what I was doing so much,
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looking back and wishing, wishing I could live back in that year when I was in eighth grade, where things were so simple.
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You know, when I had friends, when I had things when when I was more social
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and I felt like you know maybe even I was like kind of popular
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or whatever but it's like holding on to that
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that is exactly what kept me it kept me in
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that place it held me back it's the worst thing you know nostalgia nostalgia is the killer of dreams
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and And if you...
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Okay, I'm running out of storage.
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This video is already too long.
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But like I was saying, the nostalgia is the killer of dreams.
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And if you can't let go of the past, and this is something that I've learned.
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I mean, people say this, but you don't really realize it until you've lived through all of this.
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If you can't let go of those things that seem so great, then you won't see the opportunities that are right in front of you.
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You won't see what's new to come.
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and during this gap year that I've been on, so much has happened.
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So many different things that I would have never guessed and it's like there's things I've wanted so badly,
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so badly and they didn't happen because I wanted them.
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They didn't happen because, you know, I was just like, I was just wanting it so bad.
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That's not why it happened.
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I think, I think ultimately it was God
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and there's a lot of things in the works and I don't know what's going to happen with them.
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I could ultimately still fail but it's like all those years, the past three and a half years,
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those 1,368 days, although it seemed like a waste,
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it took all of that to get to today, to this culmination.
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It was the culmination of all that experience, all those thoughts, all that time.
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And if it weren't for that, then I wouldn't be here, you know, recording this video.
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And I wouldn't be the person I am.
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I'd be completely different.
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If I remained, if I was back in 8th grade, and if I stayed that person, if I remained that person,
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I, version of me right now, I would hate that person.
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I would be like, wow, you know nothing.
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And what are you doing?
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You're, you're so out of touch.
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Why?
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Like, I would hate myself.
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I would hate that version of me.
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And although I do, I also hate the version of me who did absolutely nothing.
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It's like that person who never, like thinking of the person who never changed.
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That is scarier than the person who did nothing yet still somehow ended up doing something.
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And that is the biggest thing.
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I have to, I have to all let this go.
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Like, that's why I make these videos, because I've been thinking about this stuff, heck, even for two years, I've been thinking about how much time I've wasted,
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I've wasted my teenage years.
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But you just got to let it out.
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You have to externalize it, put it out into the world and and once I do
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that it doesn't hold me anymore once I do
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that it starts to make more sense that's what this is for just some sense of healing
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and that is that is what I need to do
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that is how I'm going to continue to grow and learn
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and realize because that's all you can do just get better learn from your mistakes
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and try to try to have enough knowledge and perspective
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that you can stop yourself before you make that next one
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and it's not easy but I think I'm getting a little bit better at it
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so we'll see we'll see what the future holds entails I
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think there's great things to come I'm optimistic I really am
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and I know that I know that was it was all for the better it really was in the end
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