1 00:00:00,178 --> 00:00:04,001 (dial tone) 2 00:00:04,001 --> 00:00:05,519 There will be bad days. 3 00:00:07,181 --> 00:00:08,142 Be calm. 4 00:00:09,326 --> 00:00:12,478 Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now. 5 00:00:14,078 --> 00:00:14,960 Let go. 6 00:00:16,391 --> 00:00:17,235 Be confident. 7 00:00:18,542 --> 00:00:20,901 Know that now is only a moment 8 00:00:21,732 --> 00:00:24,438 and that if today is as bad as it gets 9 00:00:25,023 --> 00:00:27,737 understand that by tomorrow, today will have ended. 10 00:00:28,521 --> 00:00:29,422 Be gracious. 11 00:00:30,406 --> 00:00:32,638 Accept each extended hand offered, 12 00:00:32,638 --> 00:00:35,147 to pull you back from the somewhere you cannot escape. 13 00:00:35,147 --> 00:00:36,118 Be diligent. 14 00:00:36,826 --> 00:00:38,693 Scrape the gray sky clean. 15 00:00:39,208 --> 00:00:41,861 Realize every dark cloud is a smoke screen 16 00:00:41,861 --> 00:00:43,668 meant to blind us from the truth, 17 00:00:44,021 --> 00:00:46,495 and the truth is whether we see them or not 18 00:00:46,571 --> 00:00:48,630 the sun and moon are still there 19 00:00:48,631 --> 00:00:51,339 and always there is light. 20 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:53,300 Be forthright. 21 00:00:53,925 --> 00:00:55,702 Despite your instinct to say 22 00:00:55,702 --> 00:00:58,137 "it's alright, I'm okay"... 23 00:00:58,814 --> 00:00:59,817 be honest. 24 00:01:00,485 --> 00:01:05,895 Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse or complexity. 25 00:01:06,556 --> 00:01:10,399 Be lucid in your explanation, be sterling in your repose. 26 00:01:11,243 --> 00:01:14,950 If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; 27 00:01:15,119 --> 00:01:17,548 be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, 28 00:01:18,090 --> 00:01:23,100 that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone 29 00:01:23,647 --> 00:01:25,748 that pain is part of the human condition 30 00:01:25,748 --> 00:01:28,130 and that alone makes you a legion. 31 00:01:29,087 --> 00:01:33,326 We hungry underdogs, we risers with dawn, 32 00:01:33,741 --> 00:01:37,551 we dismissers of odds, we pressers of on 33 00:01:37,982 --> 00:01:40,246 we will station ourselves to the calm. 34 00:01:40,246 --> 00:01:42,527 We will hold ourselves to the steady, 35 00:01:42,527 --> 00:01:44,224 be ready player one. 36 00:01:45,009 --> 00:01:48,758 Life is going to come at you armed with hard times and tough choices, 37 00:01:49,089 --> 00:01:52,529 your voice is your weapon, your thoughts ammunition 38 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,755 there are no free extra men, 39 00:01:54,810 --> 00:01:57,295 be aware that as the instant now passes, 40 00:01:57,448 --> 00:01:59,069 it exists now as then. 41 00:01:59,626 --> 00:02:02,160 So be a mirror reflecting yourself back, 42 00:02:02,209 --> 00:02:03,977 and remembering the times when you thought 43 00:02:04,161 --> 00:02:07,210 all of this was too hard and you'd never make it through. 44 00:02:07,756 --> 00:02:10,006 Remember the times you could have pressed quit 45 00:02:11,092 --> 00:02:12,420 but you hit continue. 46 00:02:13,416 --> 00:02:14,324 Be forgiving. 47 00:02:15,074 --> 00:02:17,456 Living with the burden of anger is not living. 48 00:02:18,010 --> 00:02:22,265 Giving your focus to wrath will leave your entire self absent of what you need. 49 00:02:22,434 --> 00:02:26,584 Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed. 50 00:02:26,892 --> 00:02:28,167 Be persistent. 51 00:02:28,444 --> 00:02:31,266 Be the weed growing through the cracks in the cement... 52 00:02:32,604 --> 00:02:33,333 beautiful 53 00:02:34,717 --> 00:02:37,672 because it doesn't know it's not supposed to grow there. 54 00:02:38,518 --> 00:02:39,594 Be resolute. 55 00:02:40,194 --> 00:02:43,605 Declare what you accept as true in a way that envisions 56 00:02:43,605 --> 00:02:45,646 the resolve with which you accept it. 57 00:02:46,461 --> 00:02:50,227 If you are having a good day, be considerate. 58 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:54,968 A simple smile could be the first-aid kit that someone has been looking for. 59 00:02:55,337 --> 00:02:59,813 If you believe with absolute honesty that you are doing everything you can... 60 00:03:01,419 --> 00:03:02,246 do more. 61 00:03:03,817 --> 00:03:05,513 There will be bad days. 62 00:03:06,606 --> 00:03:11,442 Times when the world weighs on you for so long it leaves you looking for an easy way out. 63 00:03:12,165 --> 00:03:15,508 There will be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. 64 00:03:16,338 --> 00:03:21,789 Instances spent pretending that everything is alright when it clearly is not. 65 00:03:22,820 --> 00:03:24,164 Check your blind spot. 66 00:03:25,056 --> 00:03:26,528 See that love is still there. 67 00:03:27,035 --> 00:03:28,087 Be patient. 68 00:03:28,487 --> 00:03:30,169 Every nightmare has a beginning, 69 00:03:30,169 --> 00:03:31,864 but every bad day has an end. 70 00:03:32,156 --> 00:03:34,333 Ignore what others have called you. 71 00:03:36,133 --> 00:03:37,710 I am calling you friend. 72 00:03:38,495 --> 00:03:41,319 Make us comprehend the urgency of your crisis. 73 00:03:41,658 --> 00:03:44,644 Silence left to its own devices breeds silence. 74 00:03:44,644 --> 00:03:46,691 So speak and be heard. 75 00:03:46,999 --> 00:03:51,180 One word after the next, express yourself and put your life in the context. 76 00:03:51,487 --> 00:03:53,706 If you find that no one is listening... 77 00:03:55,044 --> 00:03:56,023 be loud. 78 00:03:57,299 --> 00:03:58,323 Make noise. 79 00:03:58,984 --> 00:04:01,434 Stand in poise and be open. 80 00:04:01,665 --> 00:04:06,109 Hope in these situations is not enough and you will need someone to lean on. 81 00:04:07,509 --> 00:04:10,073 In the unlikely event that you have no one, 82 00:04:11,658 --> 00:04:12,680 look again. 83 00:04:14,111 --> 00:04:16,753 Everyone is blessed with the ability to listen. 84 00:04:17,676 --> 00:04:19,733 The deaf will hear you with their eyes. 85 00:04:20,163 --> 00:04:22,282 The blind will see you with their hands. 86 00:04:22,328 --> 00:04:24,066 Let your heart fill their news-stands, 87 00:04:24,066 --> 00:04:25,924 Let them read all about it. 88 00:04:26,386 --> 00:04:30,198 Admit to the bad days, the impossible nights. 89 00:04:30,645 --> 00:04:34,172 Listen to the insights of those who have been there, but come back. 90 00:04:34,172 --> 00:04:35,218 They will tell you; 91 00:04:35,588 --> 00:04:38,085 you can stack misery, you can pack dispair 92 00:04:38,085 --> 00:04:39,784 you can even wear your sorrow 93 00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:42,686 but come tomorrow you must change your clothes. 94 00:04:42,686 --> 00:04:45,159 Everyone knows pain. 95 00:04:46,574 --> 00:04:48,950 We are not meant to carry it forever. 96 00:04:49,965 --> 00:04:52,436 We were never meant to hold it so closely, 97 00:04:52,436 --> 00:04:58,633 so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. 98 00:04:59,172 --> 00:05:01,329 That when someone asks you, "How was your day?", 99 00:05:01,945 --> 00:05:03,641 realize that for some of us 100 00:05:03,980 --> 00:05:06,189 it's the only way we know how to say, 101 00:05:08,050 --> 00:05:08,971 be calm. 102 00:05:10,386 --> 00:05:11,671 Loosen your grip, 103 00:05:11,671 --> 00:05:12,647 opening each palm, 104 00:05:12,647 --> 00:05:14,208 slowly now... 105 00:05:16,608 --> 00:05:17,376 let go.