WEBVTT 00:00:00.178 --> 00:00:04.001 (dial tone) 00:00:04.001 --> 00:00:05.519 There will be bad days. 00:00:07.181 --> 00:00:08.142 Be calm. 00:00:09.326 --> 00:00:12.478 Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now. 00:00:14.078 --> 00:00:14.960 Let go. 00:00:16.391 --> 00:00:17.235 Be confident. 00:00:18.542 --> 00:00:20.901 Know that now is only a moment 00:00:21.732 --> 00:00:24.438 and that if today is as bad as it gets 00:00:25.023 --> 00:00:27.737 understand that by tomorrow, today will have ended. 00:00:28.521 --> 00:00:29.422 Be gracious. 00:00:30.406 --> 00:00:32.638 Accept each extended hand offered, 00:00:32.638 --> 00:00:35.147 to pull you back from the somewhere you cannot escape. 00:00:35.147 --> 00:00:36.118 Be diligent. 00:00:36.826 --> 00:00:38.693 Scrape the gray sky clean. 00:00:39.208 --> 00:00:41.861 Realize every dark cloud is a smoke screen 00:00:41.861 --> 00:00:43.668 meant to blind us from the truth, 00:00:44.021 --> 00:00:46.495 and the truth is whether we see them or not 00:00:46.571 --> 00:00:48.630 the sun and moon are still there 00:00:48.631 --> 00:00:51.339 and always there is light. 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:53.300 Be forthright. 00:00:53.925 --> 00:00:55.702 Despite your instinct to say 00:00:55.702 --> 00:00:58.137 "it's alright, I'm okay"... 00:00:58.814 --> 00:00:59.817 be honest. 00:01:00.485 --> 00:01:05.895 Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse or complexity. 00:01:06.556 --> 00:01:10.399 Be lucid in your explanation, be sterling in your repose. 00:01:11.243 --> 00:01:14.950 If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:17.548 be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, 00:01:18.090 --> 00:01:23.100 that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone 00:01:23.647 --> 00:01:25.748 that pain is part of the human condition 00:01:25.748 --> 00:01:28.130 and that alone makes you a legion. 00:01:29.087 --> 00:01:33.326 We hungry underdogs, we risers with dawn, 00:01:33.741 --> 00:01:37.551 we dismissers of odds, we pressers of on 00:01:37.982 --> 00:01:40.246 we will station ourselves to the calm. 00:01:40.246 --> 00:01:42.527 We will hold ourselves to the steady, 00:01:42.527 --> 00:01:44.224 be ready player one. 00:01:45.009 --> 00:01:48.758 Life is going to come at you armed with hard times and tough choices, 00:01:49.089 --> 00:01:52.529 your voice is your weapon, your thoughts ammunition 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:54.755 there are no free extra men, 00:01:54.810 --> 00:01:57.295 be aware that as the instant now passes, 00:01:57.448 --> 00:01:59.069 it exists now as then. 00:01:59.626 --> 00:02:02.160 So be a mirror reflecting yourself back, 00:02:02.209 --> 00:02:03.977 and remembering the times when you thought 00:02:04.161 --> 00:02:07.210 all of this was too hard and you'd never make it through. 00:02:07.756 --> 00:02:10.006 Remember the times you could have pressed quit 00:02:11.092 --> 00:02:12.420 but you hit continue. 00:02:13.416 --> 00:02:14.324 Be forgiving. 00:02:15.074 --> 00:02:17.456 Living with the burden of anger is not living. 00:02:18.010 --> 00:02:22.265 Giving your focus to wrath will leave your entire self absent of what you need. 00:02:22.434 --> 00:02:26.584 Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed. 00:02:26.892 --> 00:02:28.167 Be persistent. 00:02:28.444 --> 00:02:31.266 Be the weed growing through the cracks in the cement... 00:02:32.604 --> 00:02:33.333 beautiful 00:02:34.717 --> 00:02:37.672 because it doesn't know it's not supposed to grow there. 00:02:38.518 --> 00:02:39.594 Be resolute. 00:02:40.194 --> 00:02:43.605 Declare what you accept as true in a way that envisions 00:02:43.605 --> 00:02:45.646 the resolve with which you accept it. 00:02:46.461 --> 00:02:50.227 If you are having a good day, be considerate. 00:02:51.140 --> 00:02:54.968 A simple smile could be the first-aid kit that someone has been looking for. 00:02:55.337 --> 00:02:59.813 If you believe with absolute honesty that you are doing everything you can... 00:03:01.419 --> 00:03:02.246 do more. 00:03:03.817 --> 00:03:05.513 There will be bad days. 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. 00:03:12.165 --> 00:03:15.508 There will be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. 00:03:16.338 --> 00:03:21.789 Instances spent pretending that everything is alright when it clearly is not. 00:03:22.820 --> 00:03:24.164 Check your blind spot. 00:03:25.056 --> 00:03:26.528 See that love is still there. 00:03:27.035 --> 00:03:28.087 Be patient. 00:03:28.487 --> 00:03:30.169 Every nightmare has a beginning, 00:03:30.169 --> 00:03:31.864 but every bad day has an end. 00:03:32.156 --> 00:03:34.333 Ignore what others have called you. 00:03:36.133 --> 00:03:37.710 I am calling you friend. 00:03:38.495 --> 00:03:41.319 Make us comprehend the urgency of your crisis. 00:03:41.658 --> 00:03:44.644 Silence left to its own devices breeds silence. 00:03:44.644 --> 00:03:46.691 So speak and be heard. 00:03:46.999 --> 00:03:51.180 One word after the next, express yourself and put your life in the context. 00:03:51.487 --> 00:03:53.706 If you find that no one is listening... 00:03:55.044 --> 00:03:56.023 be loud. 00:03:57.299 --> 00:03:58.323 Make noise. 00:03:58.984 --> 00:04:01.434 Stand in poise and be open. 00:04:01.665 --> 00:04:06.109 Hope in these situations is not enough and you will need someone to lean on. 00:04:07.509 --> 00:04:10.073 In the unlikely event that you have no one, 00:04:11.658 --> 00:04:12.680 look again. 00:04:14.111 --> 00:04:16.753 Everyone is blessed with the ability to listen. 00:04:17.676 --> 00:04:19.733 The deaf will hear you with their eyes. 00:04:20.163 --> 00:04:22.282 The blind will see you with their hands. 00:04:22.328 --> 00:04:24.066 Let your heart fill their news-stands, 00:04:24.066 --> 00:04:25.924 Let them read all about it. 00:04:26.386 --> 00:04:30.198 Admit to the bad days, the impossible nights. 00:04:30.645 --> 00:04:34.172 Listen to the insights of those who have been there, but come back. 00:04:34.172 --> 00:04:35.218 They will tell you; 00:04:35.588 --> 00:04:38.085 you can stack misery, you can pack dispair 00:04:38.085 --> 00:04:39.784 you can even wear your sorrow 00:04:40.446 --> 00:04:42.686 but come tomorrow you must change your clothes. 00:04:42.686 --> 00:04:45.159 Everyone knows pain. 00:04:46.574 --> 00:04:48.950 We are not meant to carry it forever. 00:04:49.965 --> 00:04:52.436 We were never meant to hold it so closely, 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. 00:04:59.172 --> 00:05:01.329 That when someone asks you, "How was your day?", 00:05:01.945 --> 00:05:03.641 realize that for some of us 00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:06.189 it's the only way we know how to say, 00:05:08.050 --> 00:05:08.971 be calm. 00:05:10.386 --> 00:05:11.671 Loosen your grip, 00:05:11.671 --> 00:05:12.647 opening each palm, 00:05:12.647 --> 00:05:14.208 slowly now... 00:05:16.608 --> 00:05:17.376 let go.