[0:01]So, I'm on my way into Florence to pick
[0:03]up some basic
[0:04]supplies. I don't have a lot of money,
[0:06]so I'm just getting the absolute basics
[0:08]that I can of sinking trail mix cuz I
[0:11]can eat that
[0:13]anywhere. Um, and just a sandwich,
[0:15]something that, um, you can get at the
[0:18]store. Um, there's, you know, just
[0:21]pre-made
[0:22]sandwiches basically for today. That's
[0:24]it.
[0:27]And I was just reflecting on 10 years
[0:30]ago when I first got my cat Bailey. His
[0:33]mom had abandoned him when he was a day
[0:35]old and he had all kinds of issues. I
[0:37]had to feed him with a
[0:39]syringe when he first got his his um
[0:42]vaccinations. He got very sick. He
[0:43]almost died. I took him to like three,
[0:46]four, five different vets, a different
[0:48]vet every single day trying to save his
[0:50]life. And it was expensive. And people
[0:54]on Twitter helped me
[0:57]They didn't even know me. I didn't have
[0:59]a YouTube channel. I was just some guy
[1:00]on YouTube on Twitter and they helped
[1:05]me.
[1:07]Um, my living situation at the time was
[1:10]awful. I was living with my parents. My
[1:13]father is a narcissist
[1:15]who always made me feel very
[1:20]small, made my life very hard. And those
[1:24]people helped me get out of that
[1:28]situation. I made an Amazon wish list
[1:30]and they sent me so many things to get
[1:33]my life started back then that there
[1:37]were just tons of packages up at the
[1:38]apartment complex that I moved to with
[1:41]their
[1:43]help. I mean, it was a true
[1:48]blessing. Now I'm at a different point
[1:50]in my life 10 years later.
[1:53]and I need help
[1:55]again. Doing my best to navigate
[1:58]everything. I've been sharing my life
[2:00]publicly for over a year now. I've
[2:02]created over 700
[2:06]videos. I've shown every side of
[2:09]myself. I've been honest and authentic
[2:11]and
[2:12]vulnerable and real from the very
[2:17]beginning. Didn't real life that way. It
[2:19]was not.
[2:25]I'm doing my best and I need help. But
[2:27]nobody's helping me this time. And I
[2:30]understand why. It's because, and this
[2:33]is why I want to
[2:34]share. Everybody is operating from a
[2:37]place of collapse already before it's
[2:38]even happens because they're expecting
[2:41]it because they're looking out at the
[2:42]world and they're seeing instability and
[2:44]that makes them feel in unstable inside
[2:47]and that makes them act differently.
[2:51]They're unwilling to help people as much
[2:52]as they might have in the
[2:54]past. That's what's
[2:57]happening. It's not about me. It's about
[3:00]it's about everyone
[3:04]else. So I don't operate from that
[3:07]place. I have an integrated
[3:08]consciousness. Tell you this all the
[3:10]time because it matters.
[3:12]My cognition, emotional, sematic,
[3:16]ethical, all of it is integrated as one
[3:20]field. I never abandoned
[3:24]myself. I think probably having the kind
[3:26]of father I did had a lot to do with how
[3:29]I ended up getting
[3:30]shaped. I didn't collapse because of
[3:33]him. I got
[3:35]stronger. So, I don't operate from that
[3:37]place.
[3:39]Yesterday, I gave away all of my food to
[3:42]my friend because I didn't want it to go
[3:44]to
[3:45]waste cuz my fridge is going to stop
[3:47]working
[3:50]today. Cuz that's who I am. Because even
[3:54]though I know collapse is coming and I
[3:55]know it on a level that most people
[3:57]don't because I
[3:58]have been watching that unfold for
[4:03]decades, I still operate with my ethics
[4:06]intact, with my compassion, with my
[4:08]empathy.
[4:10]I think this really
[4:11]matters because when things do get
[4:14]really bad and we have to start relying
[4:16]on each other, when everybody has to
[4:19]rely on everybody
[4:21]else, then suddenly people are going to
[4:23]remember their compassion and their
[4:24]empathy and they're going to give. But
[4:28]they're doing it from a place of
[4:31]survival. They're not doing it from
[4:33]something internal. They're not doing it
[4:34]because it's the right thing to do.
[4:37]They're doing it as a manipulative
[4:40]tactic. And character matters to me. So,
[4:43]I've been thinking about this. When
[4:46]things get that
[4:47]bad, we're living in the new
[4:50]world and I'm meeting new people. I'm
[4:52]going to want to know who they were in
[4:53]the old world. I want to know how kind
[4:56]and generous and helpful they were then
[4:57]because that tells me who they truly are
[4:59]and how much I can trust them in a new
[5:01]world.
[5:03]That's all I'm going to say about