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So what's something that you wish you could do,
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but you just can't?
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Is it starting that business?
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Is it traveling the world?
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Or maybe it's just allowing yourself to say yes, or no.
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Now, oftentimes we come to a crossroads
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where we have to make a decision,
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but for some reason,
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we want to allow ourselves the chance to change.
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Well, today's character that best represents this
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is the sniper who can't shoot people,
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is Chica Amatore.
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Hey, what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate.
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You're listening to the Otaku Liberation,
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a show where we help you break free from the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting some biblical principles
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with things from your favorite anime.
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And without further ado, let's get into it.
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And so for today's verse that I'm going over
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with this episode is actually
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Philippians chapter four, verse six.
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And that says, don't worry about anything,
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but in everything through prayer and petition
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with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
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And the key points I want to pull out from that
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is the beginning says don't worry about anything.
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And then towards the end it says,
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present your request to God.
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And so let me start with the don't worry about anything.
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So I know, especially for me personally,
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I used to have a bad habit of worrying
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about things that are beyond my control,
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which is literally everything else in the world
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besides myself.
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And the biggest thing was what other people thought about me
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and what they may say, what they might think.
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If I did this and that and third, growing up in school,
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it was, if I wasn't always at the top of the class,
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well, people say, they all been, you've lost your edge.
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You're not as smart as you think you are type thing.
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If I were to fail at something, especially sports,
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because I tend to overthink things
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that hinder my physical performance in sports.
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And it's like, man, people just think I suck.
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I'm letting the team down, things like that.
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And even starting this podcast,
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what are the people going to think about it?
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Are they going to like it?
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Are they going to hate it?
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Are they going to hate me personally
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because I don't, you know,
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essentially preaching the gospel through anime,
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it's like, oh, that's a taboo.
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You can't do that.
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Who knows?
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I don't know.
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I honestly don't know.
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And again, so this verse kind of came to me.
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It's like, just don't worry.
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Just don't worry about it.
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Just give it all to God, let him work it out.
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And that's it.
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I mean, that's literally it.
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There's nothing more, nothing more than that.
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And it's easier said than done.
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Definitely that's something that we have to actively choose
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to do each and every day in each and every moment.
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And even now I still have things that I worry about
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sometimes where I have to just take a step back,
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take a deep breath and just say,
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okay, God, I'm going to let you handle it.
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I'm just going to let you handle it.
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I'm not going to worry about it.
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But I know it took a lot for me to get to that point
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where I can just readily drop it and give it to God.
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And for today's character, Chica,
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is something that she's still struggling with,
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but she's getting better with herself.
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And what she's worried about is essentially
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people blaming her, blaming her for her actions.
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And it doesn't give you a little context to that.
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So again, like I said before,
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in World Trigger, the power system is called Trion, right?
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Trion is something that all living creatures have,
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and you have a pretty set amount
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from the moment you're born, right?
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And in the previous episode,
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I covered Osamu who has below average amounts of Trion,
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like abysmal levels.
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Chica is the exact opposite of them.
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I think they've stated she has the most out of everyone
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in the series that we've seen thus far.
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And I mean, her volume and density of it is massive.
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And because of that, she grants unwanted attention
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from the neighbors, which again,
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for those who don't remember or who don't know,
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the neighbors are essentially the neighboring planets
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that are close to Earth's orbit in an alternate dimension.
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since they're closer neighbors at this point.
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And the neighbors are essentially just the term to use
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for the aliens themselves.
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And because of Chica's high Trion levels,
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the aliens are trying to come take her
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and use her essentially as a,
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at first we thought it was just a fuel source,
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but we learned later on in the series
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for something even bigger than that.
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But the biggest thing is that Chica's always been targeted
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by neighbors since she was like a small child.
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And it was because of this that ultimately
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one of her friends ends up getting taken instead of her.
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Because of Chica's high Trion levels,
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she has an ability that she can sense
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when the neighbors are near.
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So she always knew when one of them was around her.
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So that made it hard for them to be able to capture her.
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But for her friend, that wasn't the case.
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And one time when she again,
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I think she was in like in grade school,
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something like that,
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her friend ends up getting taken by the neighbors
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because she was essentially, because she was close to Chica
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and she can do anything about it.
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And the crazy thing is before the kidnapping happened,
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Chica would tell the teachers, the other kids,
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to her parents about these creatures
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that are trying to get her.
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Because at this point, border was still secret.
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The neighbors weren't common knowledge.
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So no one knew about this alien threat.
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No one knew about it.
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So at the time they just thought,
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what most adults think when they hear a small child
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frantic about something that they think
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is just make believe, right?
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And because of that, no one paid her any mind
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until her friend ended up disappearing.
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And then at that moment, they all went back to what
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Chica had been saying prior to this,
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was that, you know, maybe they're all creatures out there.
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Maybe she is right.
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And then somehow, because they got this twisted idea
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in their mind that she was to blame
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for her friend's disappearance.
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Because of what she did or didn't do,
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that she is the reason that her friend disappeared.
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Now, us as viewers, we kind of know it's kind of right,
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but kind of not right.
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Because the neighbors were just taking
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a lot of people at that point.
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And like her friend wasn't the only one to be taken.
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But the neighbors were targeting Chica
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because of her huge amount of try-ons.
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So you could argue it kind of,
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it wasn't her fault intentionally,
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but it's just one of those things of circumstance.
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But regardless of the fact, that stuck with her
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up until where we are in the story now.
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And that just fed into her inability to shoot people.
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Right?
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So in Border, the agents have different classes
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they can be, more or less.
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I think class is the best thing I can use to describe it.
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And Chica decided to be a sniper.
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And the crazy thing is because her sniper,
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her shots aren't like normal shots.
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They call her the cannon because due to her huge amount
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of try-on when she pulls the trigger,
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it's literally like a cannon being shot off.
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And she just decimates the area.
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And it's kind of a running thing throughout the series.
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And because of that, people initially thought,
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oh man, she's gonna be just a huge threat.
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No matter what squad she joins,
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she's just gonna be just a menace on the battlefield.
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But they soon realized that she freezes up
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and she has to take aim at people.
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Now she can shoot buildings all day long.
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She can shoot buildings and level the map.
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But the minute she has to do essentially
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what a sniper is there to do and to take out
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the opposition, the enemy agents,
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she can't pull the trigger.
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She freezes up.
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And more than once has that cost her team
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some serious damage, whether it's her not scoring points
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where she could have or by her not taking a shot
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is inadvertently cause either Osama or Yuma
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to lose in their respective battles
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and causing their team to essentially lose out
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on either the match entirely or just on points
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they could have had.
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And for me as a watcher or a seer,
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that was so frustrating to see is like,
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you're so good, but you're not living up to your potential.
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You're not doing what essentially what you need to do.
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And looking back on it now, it was selfish of me to say,
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right, to this anime character.
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But think about how oftentimes we just think about people
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or we see somebody who we just, sorry.
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How many think about how we see people
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who we think they could do better with their lives,
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but for some reason they just don't,
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they don't, they're always stuck in this hamster
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with this self sabotaging cycle.
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And we don't know what it is because again,
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we're not them, right?
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We can't read minds, we can't,
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we can sympathize with what they're going through,
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but we can't understand it because we're not going through
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what they're going through, right?
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And because at the end of the day, we're all unique.
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We're all unique people.
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We can go through similar situations,
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similar circumstances, so we have that level of empathy
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for it, but we don't truly understand it
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because we're not them.
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Two people going through the same scenario
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can handle it completely different ways,
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just based on their own personality,
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their own mental toughness, so to speak.
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And I know, so for Chico on the outside looking in,
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people just thought she was afraid,
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she was afraid of shooting people
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because she didn't want to take another person's life,
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that she didn't want to be someone
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who just kills people, right?
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Even though in the anime, no one really dies,
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since these are all mock battles,
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but it's just that mindset, right?
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And so when she joined Border,
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it's kind of funny, she joined Border
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in order to search for her brother, right?
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I mean, it's kind of the main premise of the story.
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So Chica joined to find her brother
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because he went off into the neighborhood
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and into the alternate dimension of his own free will,
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but she's trying to find out why he left.
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And that's the reason why Osamu wants to go too,
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because Chica's brother actually taught Osamu
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about Border and triggers and all that stuff.
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So that's their connection.
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They want to essentially find him
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and find out why he left.
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But even after joining Border and becoming a sniper
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and joining the squad with Osamu and Yuma,
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Chica's still unable to shoot people,
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even when the need is there for her
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to make a decision to take action.
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And part of this is twofold,
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but it's the same problem,
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is that we tend to make excuses, right?
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We tend to make excuses for ourselves
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as to why we can't do this, that, and the third.
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We tend to blame other people.
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We tend to blame our circumstances.
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We tend to blame our luck or a lot on life about,
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oh man, I can't start this business
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because my wife won't support me on it
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or my husband won't support me on it.
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I was like, okay, well,
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have you really had a conversation with him?
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Have you sat down and tried to have
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like a full-on conversation,
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or did you just say, hey, I'm thinking about doing this
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with no explanation whatsoever, right?
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It's like one of those different type of deals
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where are you really giving it your all
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or are you just saying you are
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to make yourself look good or to convince yourself
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that you're really doing everything that you can.
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And I mean, that's a serious question.
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Like I'm seriously asking,
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because I mean, this is a question
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I had to ask myself multiple times,
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multiple, multiple times.
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Am I really giving it my all
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or am I really just saying that to convince myself
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that the mediocre work I'm putting in is enough?
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And sometimes the answer is yes,
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I'm literally giving it my all,
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there's nothing more I can do.
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And honestly, sometimes it's no,
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I'm just being lazy.
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I don't feel like making myself uncomfortable
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by trying new things.
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I don't feel like trying to grow
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and be better at this thing that I'm trying to do.
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And let me say, the truth hurts,
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no matter where you hear it from.
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But it's so often since we as people
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wanna be as comfortable as possible,
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we don't wanna try to do different things,
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try to go outside of a comfort zone.
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We'll make excuses that sound good and grand
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to justify us not taking action.
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And honestly, I think the worst part of it is
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others will make excuses for us as well.
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And nine times out of 10 is those who are closest to you
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because they care about your emotions
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more than they care about you.
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And it's not intentional, it's not intentional.
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Most of us have been raised and taught to
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be considerate of other people's feelings and their emotion
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and be understanding and sympathetic and things like that.
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But to a certain extent, that can be detrimental,
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especially when you see someone self-sabotaging themselves
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and their potential and what they could possibly do.
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When you make excuses with them to justify
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their self-sabotage behavior,
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you're just enabling the badness.
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You're just enabling them to essentially
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throw the pity party to not really give it their all
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and to, and honestly just to go through life
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instead of just living it.
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And in Sheikah's case, it was Osamu and Yuma,
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they're always coming for her on the battlefield
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and off it.
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And again, it's coming from a place of good intentions.
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They're her friends, they don't want her to do anything
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that she doesn't wanna do,
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that she doesn't feel comfortable with.
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And again, it's from good intentions
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and I definitely get that.
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We don't want, you don't wanna push someone
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before they're ready,
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but sometimes you need to push them so they can be ready.
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And because we, since we're alone with our own thoughts,
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alone with our own thoughts all the time,
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it's easy to convince ourselves that we can't do this,
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we can't do that, we're not good enough,
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we're not ready, we're not this, that and the third
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where it takes an outside force,
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someone else looking in to say, no, that's not the case.
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You have the potential, you can do it.
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Is it gonna be hard?
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Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't do it.
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That's the difference.
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And like I say, like again,
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since we're taught to be considerate of people's feelings,
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sometimes we don't say what needs to be said
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because I don't want them to be upset,
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I don't want to make them more upset if they already are,
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I don't want them to be mad at me,
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I don't want them to feel any worse about themselves.
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Whereas sometimes they just need to hit in the mouth
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and it's like, hey, suck it up, this is what it is,
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this is, you gotta make a decision, right?
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Now, I'll admit that doesn't work for everybody at every time,
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but you need to have someone in your circle
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who is honest with you, completely, utterly honest
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with your strengths, your flaws,
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the good, the bad and the ugly,
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who can give it to you straight no matter what.
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You being a knucklehead,
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they're gonna tell you you're being a knucklehead.
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If you're being too soft on yourself,
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they're gonna tell you being too soft on yourself,
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being too hard on yourself,
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you're not giving yourself the chance to change.
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And basically I'm here to tell you you're being stupid
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and to get it together.
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And for Chica, for the longest time,
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she didn't have that,
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she didn't have someone there
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to essentially knock that sense into her.
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But there was two times where someone alluded to the fact
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that Chica is just making excuses,
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it's not some grand fear of shooting people
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or that she can't bring herself to do it.
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And the reason why is so,
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to compensate for the fact that she can shoot people
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with actual try-on bullets,
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she came up with a method to shoot them
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with lead bullets instead, which they're non-lethal,
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they just slow the targets down long enough
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for Yuma to get them.
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And the person who made the observation
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was one of the veteran snipers on in border.
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He was like, if she was truly afraid to shoot people,
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she would never shoot anyone with any type of bullet.
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But the fact that she can shoot people down
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with the lead ones remorselessly, without remorse,
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is that shows that she can pull the trigger
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and she's just choosing not to,
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for whatever the reason is, she's just choosing not to.
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And so that was the first time.
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And the second time was when their squad
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got their second ace, Hughes,
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Hughes brought it to the fact that he was like,
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no, no, no, I think she can do it.
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And she's just refusing to shoot people.
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It's not from the fact that she can't do it,
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it's the fact that she won't.
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And that kind of shocked everyone.
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They were like, hey man, you just joined the team.
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What do you know?
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And Hughes is a war veteran.
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I mean, he's a prisoner of war
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and he's been on the battlefield.
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He's seen enough action to know the difference
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between someone who can't do something
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and someone who won't.
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And ironically enough, he was really the deciding factor
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to help her find a resolve
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in order to start actually taking real shots.
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Because he brought up this point to her,
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is like, right now these are just mock battles,
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but when you go on the away mission,
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when you go out into the neighborhood,
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these are gonna be real enemies out there.
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And your inability to shoot
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is gonna end up costing your friends their lives.
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And it's when that reality hit her and it shook her,
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and she realized, I need to make a change,
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not for myself, but for my team,
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for my friends who've had my back since the beginning.
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And that is the type of change that we all,
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I know for me personally that I'm doing better at,
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is that our inability to change,
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our, well, I'm saying inability,
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our reluctance to change,
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our reluctance to give up the excuses
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and to really just risk it all
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and go for broke on something,
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is gonna end up costing somebody
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their lives somewhere out there, right?
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And it may not be as someone as close to you
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as your friend, as your family,
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but it can be just a complete stranger, right?
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I'm just trying to put it into perspective that,
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all the different motivational coaches
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and speakers out there,
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all the ones who, I've seen some in the post
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and I've seen some in the comments on their posts,
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where it's like, you saved my life in my darkest hour
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because I heard your one video, your one speech.
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Sometimes it's even just a single quote,
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just a single word resonates with somebody on a level
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that you're not even aware of.
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But if you're too afraid to just take that chance
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to really put yourself out there,
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to really go for broke,
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and you're too worried about what other people
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are gonna say and think,
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then you may be forfeiting the life
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of so many other people
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that you would never know,
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that you would never know.
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And I mean, that's pretty much all it took for Chica.
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She decided to, she can start shooting real bullets now
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because she figured that helping her friends
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outweigh the possible backlash from others.
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She figured that, despite what everyone else might say,
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because again, none of this is confirmed.
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She's living in the what if scenario.
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And boy, have I lived in the what if scenario
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for too, too, too long now about,
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what if they say this?
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What if they say that?
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What if they don't like this?
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What if they don't like that?
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It's like, and in the day, you just gotta go.
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That's it, you just gotta go, you gotta move.
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You have to decide that the reward
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is greater than the regret.
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And I was like, I don't think anyone wants to live
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in regret, and I don't think anyone wants to just stay there
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all the time with the what could have shit us.
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And I know I feel better to have tried something
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and I failed at it than to know what could have been
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if I never tried it at all.
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And I mean, honestly, that's it.
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That's pretty much it, is that we can't,
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don't hold yourself back, right?
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Don't count yourself out before you've even started.
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Allow yourself the chance to change.
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Allow yourself to fail at something
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so you can have the opportunity to be great
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at something else.
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Because if you never try, if you never take the chance,
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if you keep making excuses for yourself,
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if you keep allowing other people to make excuses for you,
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then you're never gonna reach the potential
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that you've always been meant to reach.
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Because I do realize we all have different columns in life,
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we all have different values, different things
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that we bring to the world.
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And it's up to us to discover it,
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and it's up to us to hone it and to really master it
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and just put it out there, right?
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Because I truly believe that we all have gifts
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that aren't just meant for us,
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they're meant for other people out there,
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they're meant for your family, your community,
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your country, the world, whatever it is.
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And it doesn't have to be, some of it might not even be now,
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it might not even be while you're alive.
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Your gift and potential may not be truly recognized
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until long after you're dead and gone.
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But if you never start now,
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then that's never gonna happen.
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There's just never gonna happen.
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A lot of people are never gonna see the light of day.
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And I just wanna encourage you guys to,
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just take the leap of faith, just take the faith.
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Don't worry about it anymore.
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Just let it go, pray about it, give it to God,
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let him do what he does best, which is everything.
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And just really take that load off,
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and then just move with the peace and assurance
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knowing that he got you no matter what,
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no matter what all the other flawed people on this earth
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are gonna say about you.
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The perfect one is, he's already say,
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this is done, you're forgiven
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for whatever you've done in the past.
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And I know what I've given you
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and what I've called you to do.
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So I just need you to walk in that path.
524
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,480
And that's it, that's it.
525
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,840
Honestly, it's easier said than done,
526
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,760
but I promise you, if you overthink it,
527
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,000
you're gonna just make it worse,
528
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like we always tend to do.
529
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,200
We're just gonna muck it up.
530
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,920
So don't overthink it.
531
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,920
Take a step back, take a deep breath,
532
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and just go, that's it.
533
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,360
So all right, I wanna thank you guys
534
00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,320
for tuning into today's episode.
535
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,000
I pray that you got what you needed out of it,
536
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,600
and hopefully you learned something new about yourself.
537
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,960
Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
538
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,400
I love reading guys' comments,
539
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,800
and it helps me improve each and every episode.
540
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,680
And always remember, you are the main character of your story,
541
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,680
and that story doesn't end until he says so.
542
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:16,840
All right, be blessed.
543
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:45,920
And I'll see you next time.
