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lesson I've just woken up so imma
imma excited to make a video I'm not
not going to be quite busy today but
but i was inspired to make video just
just you know thinking about some
some interesting quotes that have
have inspired my life some interesting
interesting situations and actually
actually i received a mail from one
one learner who is saying all could
could I review some things about the
the past tense so
so I thought why not just you know
know kind of combine these two ideas
ideas and talk about some quotes and
and situations that have been powerful
powerful for my own life but also
also do so while talking about things
things from the past so i'll be describing
describing things in the past and
and using a lot of past tense in this
this in this video anyway
anyway so if I make a mistake or anything
anything while I'm speaking I it's
it's just because I literally just
just woke up maybe
maybe like a couple minutes ago so
so I'm war I'm
I'm actually really excited but yeah
yeah anyway I'm trying to wake up
up it's a beautiful day here in Japan
Japan we actually had the an earthquake
earthquake last night in let's
let's see like I'm in nagasaki prefecture
prefecture and kumamoto the next prefecture
prefecture over had like a pretty
pretty bad earthquake like the level
level 7 on the Richter scale and so
so we actually felt that last night
night so we have maybe like a level
level for level 3 earthquake around
around here so it wasn't so bad in
in a sucky but over there was actually
actually pretty you know some places
places were actually pretty badly
badly damaged I
I didn't quite sleep so well last
last night but anyway i'm excited
excited to wake up and make this video
video for you now as
as usual if you're new to this series
series i really appreciate it if you
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the previous videos that we made on
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better and if you're ready and you're
you're excited to begin here
here we go so today I thought it would
would talk about three quotes that
that have inspired me some kind of
of three situations and maybe you've
you've had the same experience in
in your own life you probably had
had you know just in your own life
life growing up you get lots of chances
chances to meet other people and to
to share experiences them
them in to learn interesting things
things from them so i thought i would
would share a couple of those in this
this episode so
so the first one I wanted to share
share was with my my old nanny and
and babysitter so
so this is a really lovely fantastic
fantastic woman that helped to raise
raise me and my younger sister and
and she used to come you know stay
stay with us like
like during the day and you know clean
clean things and take care of us make
make sure we would go to work well
well for make sure we would go to
to school i should say when my parents
parents were both out working so we
we would spend a lot of time together
together and we would actually go
go kind of visitor at our house so
so you know when we just felt like
like going out and having a fun time
time she was really great about having
having us over that
that kind of thing so on one occasion
occasion when I was riding in the
the car with her and my sister was
was with me we're just going to spend
spend like spend the night at her
her house so we lived in chicago and
and she lived in indiana so
so it's actually like not that far
far away but she lived like a little
little bit further away at that time
time so she wasn't babysitting us
us at that time but you know we just
just kind of mr. and wanted to go
go spend time with her again so
so I'm sitting in the car with my
my younger sister and her her name
name is Valda by
by the way and so we were driving
driving where she was driving we were
were just riding we were passengers
passengers in the car but we are writing
writing and right near her house there
there was a cemetery so we pass the
the cemetery is a place where you've
you've got a whole bunch of graves
graves for people that are that have
have passed away so passed away is
is a phrasal verb meaning to die it's
it's kind of a more polite way of
of saying that someone like passes
passes into the next world to pass
pass away
pass away so
so anyway we're driving kind of going
going near her house and you know
know I'm saying that there's a like
like a cemetery not that far from
from her and I said oh aren't you
you like nervous that there's a cemetery
cemetery near your house and she kind
kind of thought for a minute and she
she looked at me and she said we have
have more to fear from the living
living then from the dead we
we have more to fear from the living
living then from the dead and i thought
thought wow that that was like a really
really profound really profound idea
idea
idea and
and it was true at least I thought
thought about it at the moment like
like how like we are you know we kind
kind of get scared about ghost or
or something like that but really
really this isn't you know to say
say that like life should be scary
scary but you know really like a graveyard
graveyard is actually kind of a peaceful
peaceful place where you know people
people go go to rest after they've
they've passed away but it really
really made me think about something
something in a different way and it's
it's something that really stuck with
with me when something sticks with
with you
with you it's
it's like an idea or something that
that you you keep and it's a very
very powerful impact you in a particular
particular wait so this idea stuck
stuck with me of of you know recognizing
recognizing that we have more to fear
fear from the living than we do from
from the dead anyway so that's the
the first or the second one was when
when i was i was working at a marina
marina
marina so
so this is just a place where there
there are boats like a local Harbor
Harbor that kind of thing back
back when I was in college no I was
was in high school and I remember
remember talking to kind of like the
the owner or not the owner but like
like the manager of that marina this
this is back in Chicago a really great
great place i would do it was actually
actually a lot of fun during the summer
summer to hang out on different boats
boats and talk to people who i was
was like getting tips for you know
know helping people do different stuff
stuff but he was a lot of fun as a
a summer job this
this is a typical thing people do
do in America they may be like I would
would be studying you know like one
one thing in school but then go get
get it summer job doing you know whatever
whatever like construction or something
something like that I
I just to get outside or do something
something interesting with my time
time
time so
so on this occasion I was talking
talking with the the manager and he
he was telling me about a party he
he was going to and I know he had
had a girlfriend or whatever so I
I said hey are you gonna bring your
your girlfriend with you to this party
party and he said he kind of like
like thought for a minute just like
like valid it and he like thought
thought for a minute and he looked
looked at me and he said you don't
don't bring sand to the beach you
you don't bring sand to the beach
beach and I thought I have so funny
funny like he was just being there
there I mean he was joking a
a kind of but like you know he was
was basically saying like you don't
don't bring your girlfriend to a place
place where there will be lots of
of women
of women I
I didn't think this was like great
great advice and I wasn't like oh
oh wow
oh wow like
like maybe I should do that but I
I just thought it was a really great
great way of expressing that and I
I kind of admired his like honesty
honesty about that he was like yeah
yeah you know I have a girlfriend
girlfriend but you know whatever so
so not you know my personal opinions
opinions about that aside I just thought
thought it was like a really amazing
amazing quote because I've never heard
heard that before and
and so I'm passing that along to you
you today so you could use you know
know you don't bring sand to the beach
beach in any kind of thing like you
you don't bring flowers you
you know to Hawaii or something like
like that because there are already
already flowers over there so I mean
mean in this kind of situation you
you can just use you don't bring sand
sand to the beach because at the beach
beach there's already lots of saying
saying there now the last quote i
i will leave you with this one is
is probably the most important that
that it's affected my life and affected
affected the way I think and
and so this one was when I was you
you know back at home as a as a young
young kid maybe on a light eight years
years old something like that I used
used to do a lot of baking with my
my mom so my sister and I you know
know we would also do some baking
baking but i would make pies and cookies
cookies that is really like to bake
bake it was it was a lot of fun I
I don't really do so much of that
that now but when I was younger I
I did a lot of baking and so my family
family like we would get like you
you know really make sure you know
know when we bake something we would
would all like take our portion of
of that thing so if it was a pie we
we would cut up the pieces and really
really make sure that like everybody
everybody had like their own you know
know little slice of it so
so me being like a young boy would
would be very impatient and i would
would like to get my fourth of the
the pie or something like that and
and start like eating it really quickly
quickly and then I would finish it
it before everybody else ate their
their portion so my younger sister
sister Emily so
so she would be sitting there and
and have her portion of pine she would
would always be very patient and wait
wait
wait and
and I don't know why she was waiting
waiting you know the pie was really
really good right after you make it
it but so she would be sitting there
there and then wait like a no
no quite a while and that what i'm
i'm using this phrase she would be
be sitting there what I mean is like
like she would be doing something
something or whatever but like taking
taking time to do something so she
she would be sitting there doesn't
doesn't mean she's literally sitting
sitting someplace but
but anyway so she would be sitting
sitting there and thinking okay I'm
I'm going to wait and like kind of
of savor it so
so savor the anticipation of meeting
meeting the pot so she was very good
good about that I was not as I was
was saying I was kind of like an impatient
impatient kind of child so
so anyway I've hurt her piece of the
the pie would be sitting there you
you know in the pie 10
10 in the refrigerator and I would
would slowly like cut into the side
side of it so
so you have that kind of top of the
the pie and I would like slowly kind
kind of walk by and be like a little
little maybe I can have some pie would
would slowly like cut in on the side
side of the pie between the top layer
layer and the crust that kind of thing
thing
thing so
so from the top it looks like there
there is still a full piece of pie
pie but really I was like cutting
cutting into the side of it but this
this is just kind of like a silly
silly thing about me but getting back
back to the point about the quote
quote here when I was talking with
with my dad about like after we would
would just make a pie then we would
would actually cut it into four sections
sections and then we would actually
actually kind of like put like our
our initial on it like the first letter
letter of our first name so i would
would have like an a for Andrew so
so Andrews my first name my real name
name even though i go by Drew but
but so anyway I would like carving
carving know the name most like my
my name and D for dad or whatever
whatever and I was talking to my dad
dad one day and I said hey like what
what if I cut you know i'm going to
to cut like all the all like the pieces
pieces or whatever he said yeah sure
sure you can cut you know cut the
the cut the pie how you would like
like to distribute it so
so how you would like to separate
separate between four people and I
I said oh fantastic i'm going to cut
cut the pie give myself a huge piece
piece and give all you guys like just
just a tiny piece and he said ok you
you cut
you cut I
I choose you cut I choose and I thought
thought it needed like immediately
immediately I thought like wow that
that was like a really great idea
idea for like government and dealing
dealing with people and things like
like that and so my dad was basically
basically saying like
like you can cut whatever size piece
piece you want let you make the portions
portions but then I get to choose
choose which piece I want and you
you can believe that I was definitely
definitely like i'm going to click
click cut it exactly i had like a
a ruler out and make sure it was like
like exactly four pieces exactly
exactly of equal size but that's just
just another quote that really stuck
stuck with me and when I think about
about that now I try to think about
about rules in that weight about how
how your kind of using the situation
situation to make sure that the person
person is checked from like breaking
breaking the rules are doing something
something like that would give them
them too much of an advantage so
so another thing like another example
example of this rule is you know I
I would be riding in the car with
with my dad and he would say all you
you can listen to whatever you want
want on the radio and i would say
say Oh fantastic so i would pick a
a channel and he would say you can
can pick the channel but I get to
to pick the volume so you can pick
pick the channel but i can pick the
the volume so what that means is that
that like if i select a channel that's
that's like you know like loud rock
rock and roll that maybe he doesn't
doesn't want to listen to he can turn
turn the volume all the way off and
and then we don't listen to anything
anything so it forces you to compromise
compromise and actually have like
like a really good situation like
like that anyway that's just a three
three powerful quotes but situations
situations from my life that I wanted
wanted to share with you i thought
thought it was just a great opportunity
opportunity so
so even though I'm kind of still waking
waking up over here in Japan and it's
it's a beautiful date i
i thought i would share that with
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