Name: How to Change the Way You See Yourself | Rock Thomas | Goalcast
Uploaded: 2018-09-17T02:47:57.000Z
Duration: 8 min 8 s
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Modal verbs - A2

To-infinitive

before I earned the right to have breakfast.

The imperative

Imagine an 8.5-year-old kid getting up in the dark in Canada

and going outside and opening the barn door,

and I remember, there would be like 30 rats

and I would hope that none of them would stay around.

And, one time I went back to the house and I said,

It was kinda the beginning of me realizing that

And I learned one thing, and one thing only,

I remember waking up, I was about 13 or 14 years old,

and this was the day my dad had promised me

This was the day we were gonna play together.

We were gonna throw the football back and forth,

I popped out of my bed and I ran down the stairs,

But as I got closer, I knew something was wrong.

It was like I could feel there was a heaviness in the air

And the weirdest thing happened is he turned,

he looked at me, and I felt myself shrinking down.

And he stood up, and this shadow cast over me, and he goes,

Do you think that this roof just puts itself there?

One day you're gonna have to work hard for money.

Now, get out and play on your own before I put you to work."

and I never asked him again to play, ever.

I don't have one memory of playing with my dad, not one.

was when he was working around the house doing a chore,

I'd hand him the nails, or I'd hold the measuring tape.

He never once, he never came to my hockey games.

He dropped me off in the car and stayed in the car.

All the other parents were tying the skates,

I would try to score as many goals as I could

so I could go and then tell him I scored the winning goals

so he'd want and come look, but he never did.

for academic achievement, looking out in the crowd

hoping to see my dad, but he was never there.

So the only solace I had was to work hard.

And, I'd call him out to look at the task being done

and invariably, it was never good enough.

So, I doubled down again and work harder.

But, if you do what is difficult, life will be easy.

I saved up enough money to get a scooter.

By the time I was 17, I thought; you know what?

I mean, I could go out and make four times the amount

even if I have to pay rent, I don't care.

I did carpentry, I cut lawns, I washed windows,

I got a call from my stepmom and she said,

So, I jumped on a plane and I did everything I could.

I remember the day I had to leave to back

to take care of my family, I had a young son at the time.

And I asked my dad, he was probably about 98 pounds,

"Dad, can you think of a time when I made you proud?"

and I'm thinking to myself, my god, there was a whole bunch.

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How to Change the Way You See Yourself | Rock Thomas | Goalcast

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introvert

doubt

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