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I was never able um to understand the concept of greatness
i just never was able to understand that concept of greatness
and um as time went on and i've gotten older and i've um i've met many journeys on people that i've
met on my journey and people who i've read about on my journey i read that um all greatness the
majority of greatness in itself doesn't come with goodness the two don't coexist with one another
and um i spent all my life trying to become great because i had such a low self-esteem
and um and i realized um late in life that um all great men are not good men
and then so i try to embark on a whole different career and try to become good
but what's the concept of good being a um a floor mat i never understood the concept of
good if the concept of good is pretty much then i must be a politician because politicians always
striking for goodness and always trying to win votes from people and only the only reason that
we win votes because they believe that we're good so how do we live in those two dimensions at once
you want that greatness for self gratification but you want goodness from a human perspective
and i and i i really have no idea no clue how do i um how do i juggle both of them and be in harmony
and then in all actuality they don't exist you have to pick a side
um i i respect the person who's willing to die for what he truly
wants even if his love even this is a woman whatever is it that he truly believes in
and that he believed that he he um it transcends him to that um that level to um demand
for lovely since for instance um i look at love as a command to just rise to your greatest potential
you know and um that's how people should feel the objective should be to rise to their best
potential in life if it's to lose 30 pounds if it's to pass a test it should be um to win a fight
to be um to be admired by people all over the world it should allow you to rate rise
to your greatest potential that you look at yourself in the most grandest fashion
if you look at success you know it's different levels of success some people's um
success is um not using drugs not drinking anymore some people's success is making a
million dollars some other people successfully making a billion dollars some people's success
is not going to prison no more and we have no totally different levels of success
i know i was um i want to obtain my goal before it existed i knew that i knew i would
be champ of the world before i died i knew i wasn't going to die before i became champ
you know um dying is just as glorious as living when you really think about it because
you couldn't have a life if you didn't have death and you couldn't have death without life
so how could thus be less glorious than life they're both intertwined with one another
you know i i never um take my losses personal you know and that's very difficult for um athletes of
any any field to do i've learned that from cuss that's why he's been such a great mentor to me
you know how um it's just not to be taken personal because it would drive you nuts
and i just knew that um this is why um in all disrespects and i'm not trying to be um
vagaboses or sure but this is why i'm successful now after boxing because i didn't take it personal
i'm not trying to even the score a vanda's still fighting he's still trying to even the score
i'm not trying to even escort i'm moving on to other places which are probably dark and um
places i've never been before but i'm not afraid to go there i'm not afraid um
i'm not afraid to um lose in life i'm not afraid to do anything i won't do anything matter of
fact i won't do anything matter of fact like my show there's nothing i would do unless i have
a possibility of being humiliated if i can't be humiliated if i fail i don't want to do it
because only by doing that i would rise to my highest potential
without with the fact that i might be humiliated and i don't want that to happen
but when it does happen then um i will truly be humiliated because when i succeed i truly succeed
when that feeling comes you know um you have no control over it i might want to die tomorrow
you know and that's just what it is and that's how my mind works maybe something may have me i
might get into i might um get into an argument with my wife something might have i might want
to die tomorrow and i might want to live but i might have killed myself already
so um i don't know how that goes you know um and you want to die because there's been
enough already no maybe i want to die because i want to know what it's like to die
i want to know if it's just dark like when you have one of those dead sleeps and you
you wake up and you wouldn't know if you were dead or not if you didn't wake up so um i don't know i
don't know what i want to do i just know right now i want to live and experience life and and i don't
know what life has in store for me but i'm not afraid to find out i'm not afraid of dying either
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