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welcome to another internet checkpoint
today I wanted to talk about something
that has been bothering me a lot lately
and I had a feeling that it would be
bothering a lot of other people out
there as well um now we live in a world
where everything is trying to get our
attention and that's that can be
dangerous not only to our physical
well-being because I mean you could be
in a car getting a text message and just
end up crashing into somebody I mean
losing your life in the process but
there's moments of joy in every single
day that we are probably missing out on
because of the fact that everything is
just so fast-paced everything is vying
for our attention at every single moment
and it's it's just sad that we have
to make so much of an effort to I mean
it's sad and it's beautiful at the same
time but we have to make so much of an
effort to take ourselves uh seriously in
every moment and I guess not the word
serious is not the proper term there I
would I would say it's more
like in appreciating each moment as it
as it is instead of optimizing every
single moment for the maximum pleasure
maximum Joy maximum uh fulfillment
whatever because the beauty in life is
those moments are unpredictable and the
these crazy and beautiful things can
just happen at any time so I think it's
a good time today to just take a moment
out of your day to appreciate the moment
that you have right
now maybe we can also unpack you know
some of the latent emotions that we have
inside of us like today um I I can start
uh I have weird pain on my side I woke
up on the wrong side of the bed or
something and I really didn't want to
make this video but here I am I felt
like I mean it's another symptom of w
wanting to be as productive as possible
but also I felt like doing I feel like
doing this helps me be in the moment as
well I really struggle with for example
just speaking coherently uh for long
stretches at a time especially to other
people and this is really good practice
for me um so thanks for listening to my
to me practice right now but I want to
benefit you too so let's you know take a
moment to assess ourselves in wherever
you are you could be sitting in a chair
you could be laying in your bed U how
does it how does it feel um I think in
my previous video I said something about
checking uh the temperature seeing if
you're comfortable maybe uh turn on the
AC turn on a
fan whatever it is that you need maybe
you need to go to the
bathroom um how are you feeling right
now right I I'd like to know U you you
guys and um it's just yeah right now
there's someone walking up and you can
go
ahead yeah I don't want it's it's all
right I'm trying to be present in the
moment
so I'll cover
okay yeah like I could have cut that out
but I think that's another good effect
there I don't want I want to be as
genuine as humanly possible with you I
was also going to cut out that part
where I'm like you guys
but I don't want to make it I hate
making those stupid cuts and feeling you
guys up with Just Junk dopamine
and basically feeling like I'm fooling
fooling you you
know
so yeah like I
said um I want to know how you feel so
if you want to leave a comment and tell
me how you're feeling at this moment
right now if you're happy about I don't
know some kind of promotion at your job
or maybe you got up earlier than you
normally do and you ate a nice breakfast
I I think that's something also worth
celebrating the little winds are really
important to contribute to your big
long-term goals um I had a conversation
with my wife wife recently about how
like I used to not really believe in
like states of depression and things
like that but after the conversation
with her I really understood that not
everyone has the tools that they need to
handle the different states the
different emotions that come their way
and if you do have those tools at your
disposal I would consider you lucky
right uh that's how I feel about myself
um being able to overcome like states of
depression things like that and it's not
saying I don't get depressed I
definitely do uh for example I mean I
went through a really uh bad breakup
years ago and eventually it it all
passed right
and it I look back and I laugh at those
moments thinking that not laugh it's
it's more like
those there are some beautiful jewels in
your life that are these memories and
they there situation that only happen so
many times in someone's lives in
someone's life
and I view that those sad situations as
those beautiful Jewels I can look back
on even though they weren't Pleasant
situations even though I don't even look
on those situations fondly now um it's
not like I get many of those in my life
and being able to experience that depth
of of sadness is really precious to me
oh you can go ahead I I can cover you go
go
go yeah no
problem have a good
day yeah so maybe I've drawn this out a
little bit longer than I meant to but I
think it was a really good session
and maybe it was just cathartic for me
if it was for you U I would let me know
I I appreciate any communication I I
want to form some kind of community
about around people that want to be
productive but at the same time want to
uh be present and enjoy the fruits of
their
labor so I'll see you next time peace