what would you do if you lost everything
no money no friends nowhere to go and
you were dropped in the middle of the
street having to figure out what to do
on your own
realistically where would you go see
thousands of years ago ancient Stoics
like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca
practiced something called negative
visualization the premise is to spend
some time once in a while imagining that
you've lost all the things you value
most in life like your loved ones your
house or your job the idea behind the
exercise is not to torture yourself for
no reason but instead to remind yourself
that everything in life is loaned to us
and that any or all events can be taken
away at any moment as a result it wakes
you up to how fortunate your life really
is and pushes you to live every moment
with more intensity higher significance
and greater awareness so today Amara
wanted to take that philosophy to the
extreme by living 48 hours with
absolutely nothing in the streets of Los
Angeles all he'd have is a small camera
and some pepper spray for safety but
other than that he's completely on his
own
I don't know about this one man can make
a decision of whether my risk assessment
just telling me okay this is not a good
idea or is this just discomfort and
that's the step that I have to push
through Thor you've heard it I've been
talking to a lot of people yesterday oh
people don't think it's a good idea this
would be up there in terms of like
danger for the things that we do and I
will be completing my own and why did
you want to do this I think to take away
everything from yourself so that you
really aware every single thing you have
is really important I'm not trying to
simulate what it's like to be homeless
I'm not trying to talk about
homelessness because I don't feel
qualified to but whatever it is that I'm
gonna go through can't even imagine what
someone who's actually homeless who
doesn't know that in three days they're
gonna go back to a home or a group of
friends or like LA is no joke man
there's a lot of crime and a lot of
gangs gonna have to be super careful
what do you bring flashlight the
batteries do pepper sprays and let's
charge it now bring a sleeping bag or
anything the only thing I took is the
face Apple watch cuz its cellular so I'd
be able to like make a call if anything
is up there's a lift coming in two
minutes he's gonna drop you somewhere in
West Hollywood okay just pick an
arbitrary location up there all right
anxious scared
love you baby these guys dude guys
I can't believe a mosque gonna be alone
for 48 hours on the street with
literally like no resources and the 48
hours officially begin what do even what
they do I guess I can explain what the
rules are
I'm gonna find a place to settle
I've been walking for a longer anything
I just do not try to take it easy during
the day as I can be up in the first part
of the night make sure that I'm safe I'm
gonna figure it out honestly like I have
no idea how this video is gonna go I'm
not going out with the intention of
making a video I'm going up with the
intention to actually live the
experience and it's not fun and it's
dangerous I want to make sure that I
just got out of the experience the most
I can and hopefully go back into my
daily life with a new perspective okay I
just had my first terrifying experience
this is where I am I thought this is a
block tough area and just someone in the
middle of my nap just walks out from
here and I just jumped out of my sleeve
as I go I'm sorry I think I'm lost I'm
like Monroe I think I'm lost I feel very
lonely finger lead roles of attracting
with people who's just hitting me as
long as I've spent and not talking to
people about hair wow I think I slept
for like an hour and a half woke up to
convoy of ambulances heading up Beverly
Hills the temperature dropped
significantly I'm like shivering which
terrible news for tonight it's cold up
my pants are pretty thin and I'm
swearing a t-shirt under here
there's just so much time to kill I'm
like six hours out of 48 hours and I'm
working going crazy where you I got
water step one plastic bottle from the
dumpster step two find public access for
any kind of water
I can basket by two trash cans that had
bottles of water that I need but it's
like every time I stepped near the trash
can to reach out with my hand there was
just this part of me that maybe it's
just my pride feeling the shame of doing
something like this it's drink water
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walked into this fancy parking structure
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you've been walking around for about an
hour now round over the
still looking at the trash food just a
factory smells really [ __ ] good
I think I recognize this from when I ran
the marathon I think if I walk all the
way down this way I can actually get
this Santa Monica I need my dad
I'm afraid that there will be like
patrol on the beach but that's so better
than sleeping some on the streets when
it's literally raining has that speaker
the long-ass track the Santa Monica
starts and hopefully on the way find
some food impression
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it's been an hour walking no phone no
distractions no humans nothing no food
is just me and my brain food on the
table
I probably look in 20 trash cans for
food not a single bite
fine it's it's crazy like there is
homeless people everywhere it's really
every venture on the earth so my fear is
if the homeless people come up here to
sleeps and sleeping on the beach must be
problematic in some way it's so dark and
scary it's scared of being like out
there on my own I see other homeless
people so heading out towards the beach
so this should be a little more I'll
probably wake up starving given that I
haven't had any food today so that's a
whole other beast that I'm gonna have to
deal with tomorrow I hope I don't get
much tonight all right I'm gonna go to
bed or at least I'll try
from is that I'm so reachable here if
someone just pops up they can get me
right away should I sleep on top of the
lifeguard would I be invisible from the
ground level get a strike
okay this is either very smart or
extremely stupid I should just stop
complaining and get a bed healthy for
sunrise
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this is not working out for me too
paranoid census to be up here every time
there's a plane passing or I hear
giggles I just freak out so I'm going to
try below this guard Sam see if there's
any better the San should be a little
more comfortable than this giant
sandpaper surface up here okay it's 1:00
a.m. and I'm really cold can't fall
asleep I'm really hungry [ __ ] and I
think my body is just exerting a lot of
energy right now keeping me in one ah I
thought the beach was gonna be a good
idea right now I'm so blessed
then you truly appreciate where you have
entire thing from you daddy I'm just
connecting with another human one you
want like today was so [ __ ] lonely
that's a very extreme switch from being
like extremely social extroverted to
being I can't even ask a girl for help
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I take my bed for granted I take
everything for granted it's been a full
day
empty stomach I'm not a single by yoga
sleep
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it's cool this I don't think you slept a
full hour just always waking up from the
cold and the concrete and now that I
have to find a place that is very warm
to speak tonight because otherwise you
know sleep
beautiful sunrise though let's get out
of here
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combination of being freezing cold and
extremely hungry sleep probably a fill
of two and a half hours this is a lot of
the biggest realizations from last time
when you're sleeping on the streets that
amount of fear that you fall asleep with
every night that is just unbelievable I
was so scared last night
you just don't know who's gonna show up
and just scared the whole time and you
need to be alert so even though I slept
I was still very aura by surrounding all
right I made it to Venice there's a park
that's so sunshine I'm gonna sleep for a
bit and that's got walking south well
chair should I sleep on that sure sure
just honestly
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I'm probably gonna have a big crash this
afternoon given that I haven't hit
anything for 28 hours a lot of hardship
right now but this is what it's about
Wow I managed to sleep Oh
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it's pretty heavy so there's food inside
god knows what the shape of the food is
but I'll take anything
like bones that
that will do just think this one out
play on through actually I can take a
bite from the other side I am NOT
some good news right here attention in
the trash night only food for this 48
hours I'm very thankful for this
I'm gonna do something that I don't
which is mindful eating
be extra extra conscious about the way
interact with my food never take for
granted that I can just eat whenever I
want
the end of the lot faster bye
much like six potatoes and a drumstick
under leather
and the lemons thanks God us
now I'm gonna be walking south because
I'm hydrated
there's a little bit of energy it's
gonna be a long walk another like five
to seven miles to get there and then
probably just like three four miles
walking around
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later at three another right I'm gonna
watch the sunset on the beach French
just like press there for a sec before
the night temperatures gonna drop just
like go on that that sugar I figure out
where the hell I'm gonna sleep tonight
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I'm making my way back up to Playa Vista
I just want to find the sheltered place
that I can select force myself to pass
out in and then wake up to this sunshine
the cell for me on this spot is its
shelter can't be seen from street level
and the wind is blocked by nice I was
actually thinking about this during
meditation and I would like to just push
the challenge to you guys what is
something that you want to deprive
yourself from something that if you are
taking for granted or don't really
appreciate much even though it's a huge
blessing that it's in your life and just
do an exercise like this one okay it's
11:15 a busy two hours and 15 minutes
unable to sleep because of the cold
temperatures dropped again to below 40
degrees and freezing this has not been
easy my friends harder it is the more
valuable the lesson that I think
learning a really really valuable lesson
okay so I either came up with the most
brilliant idea or the dumbest idea ever
I'm thinking of walking to the airport
which is 70 to 80 minute walk but I
would much rather walk there knowing
that I'm gonna have a guaranteed spot to
sleep in which is just something Florida
that can just say and I'm flying early
and I didn't want to miss my flight
that's going to be my motivation for the
next 70 minutes walking the warmth that
I'm gonna experience once I am inside
the premises look at this beautiful road
ahead night watchin the highway
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whoo I made it yes
yes so I've been on the streets for 42
hours
oh so fix right now may this be a
reminder never ever take anything for
granted this to me is like a five start
with that right now just everything is
relative that was the core to the stoic
practice that inspired me to do this
imagining the worst-case scenario and
forcing yourself to think that you are
able to cope with it are you actually
able to live through the worst-case
scenario and for me the last 42 hours
and the next six were exactly that I
lost everyone I lost everything and I
can do it I didn't die didn't get
stabbed and get arrested
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one meal 48 hours vii all hours of sleep
but six different spots have tried cost
me the challenge is officially done I
think the most surprising outcome to my
experience doing what I just did
I'm getting out of it appreciating and
wanting more of self youth time if you
think about there's very few instances
when you're actually truly on
interruptus
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what an experience I need to shower if
you made it all the way till the end
thank you so much for watching I really
appreciate you this was particularly a
hard one to experience and felt really
lonely but the learnings that I came out
of the experience with definitely
carried over in my daily life and I'm a
lot more aware of the things that used
to take for granted I'm a lot more aware
of my privilege and on a side note every
single penny that we're gonna make out
of this episode is going to be donated
to a nonprofit organization based here
in the west side called spy safe place
for youth and they basically do work
around supporting homeless youth around
Venice and on that note thank you so
much again for watching we'll see you
next week
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