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It is not death most people are afraid of.
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It is getting to the end of life only to realize that you never truly lived.
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There was a study done, a hospital study, on 100 elderly people facing death,
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close to their last breath.
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They were asked to reflect about their life's biggest regret.
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Nearly all of them said they regretted not the things they did,
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but the things they didn't do.
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The risks they never took, the dreams they didn't pursue...
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I ask you, would your last words be, if only I had?
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Hey, you, wake up!
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Why do you exist?
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Life is not meant to simply work, wait for the weekend and pay rent.
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No, no, I don't know much, but I know this.
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Every person on this Earth has a gift.
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And I apologize to the Black community,
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but I can no longer pretend,
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Martin Luther King?
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That man never had a dream,
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that dream had him.
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See, people don't choose dreams, dreams choose them.
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So the question I'm getting to is
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do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you, that befits you, and grips you?
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Or would you let it get away and slip through?
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Y'know I learned a fact about airplanes the other day.
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Now this was so surprising. See, I was talking to a pilot and
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he told me that many of his passengers think planes are dangerous to fly in.
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But he said actually, it is a lot more dangerous for a plane to stay on the ground.
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I said, "What?"
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Like how does that sound?
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Well he said, "Because on the ground, the plane starts to rust,
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malfunction and wear, much faster than they ever would if it was in the air."
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As I walked away, I thought, yeah, makes total sense,
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because planes were built to live in the skies.
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And every person was built to live out the dream they have inside.
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So it is perhaps the saddest loss to live a life on the ground
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without ever taking off.
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See, most of us are afraid of the thief that comes in the night to steal all of our things,
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but there is a thief in your mind who is after your dreams.
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His name is doubt.
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If you see him, call the cops and keep him away from the kids,
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cuz he is wanted for murder, for he has killed more dreams than failure ever did.
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He wears many disguises and like a virus will leave you blind and divided and turn you into a
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"kinda".
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See, "kinda" is lethal.
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You know what kinda is, there's a lot of kinda people.
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You kinda want a career change.
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You kinda want to get straight As.
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You kinda want to get in shape.
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Simple math, no numbers to crunch.
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If you kinda want something, then you will kinda get the results you want.
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What is your dream?
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What ignites that spark?
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You can't kinda want that,
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you've got to want it with every part of your whole heart.
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Will you struggle?
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Yeah, you will struggle, no way around it, you will fall many times
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but who's counting?
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Just remember, there's no such thing as a smooth mountain.
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If you want to make it to the top,
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then there are sharp bridges that must be stepped over,
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there will be times you get stressed and things you get depressed over.
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But let me tell you something, Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school three times.
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Three times but he kept going.
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The television execs fired Oprah, said she wasn't fit for TV, but she kept going.
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Critics told Beyonce that she couldn't sing.
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She went through depression but she kept going.
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Struggle and criticisms are prerequisites for greatness.
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That is the law of this universe and no one escapes it.
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Because pain is life, but you can choose what type.
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Either the pain on the road to success, or the pain of being haunted with regret.
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You want my advice?
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Don't think twice.
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We have been given a gift that we call life.
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So don't blow it.
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You are not defined by your past, instead you are born anew in each moment.
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So, own it now.
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Sometimes you gotta leap and grow your wings on the way down.
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You better get the shot off before the clock runs out,
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cuz there ain't no overtime in life, no do over.
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And I know I sound like I'm preaching or speaking with force,
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but if you don't use your gift, then you sell not only yourself but the whole world short.
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So what invention do you have buried in your mind?
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What idea?
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What cure?
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What skill did you have inside to bring out to this universe?
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"Uni" meaning "one", "verse" meaning "song".
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You have a part to play in this song so grab that microphone and be brave.
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Sing your heart out on life's stage.
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You cannot go back and make a brand new beginning.
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But you can start now and make a brand new ending.