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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I am Dramas and this is the Street

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Speaker 1: Stoic Podcast, bringing your daily dose a timeless stoic philosophy,

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Speaker 1: a remix for the hip hop generation. We are combining

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Speaker 1: ancient philosophy with lyrics and quotes and some of the

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Speaker 1: greatest who ever grace a microphone. Now, with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: let's get things started with your daily shot of inspiration.

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Speaker 1: Now today, we are gonna be focusing all around the

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Speaker 1: idea of gratitude, right, and you can tackle gratitude, I

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Speaker 1: think from so many different angles, and we have on

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Speaker 1: the show before and we will continue to do so.

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Speaker 1: But I was trying to find a different sort of

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Speaker 1: perspective that I feel like I haven't really gone down,

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Speaker 1: and kind of in doing that research, I recognize it's

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Speaker 1: something we haven't really touched on, is appreciation for those

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Speaker 1: that love you and those that you love, right, and

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Speaker 1: how just important those relationships are to our fulfillment and

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Speaker 1: our happiness. And one of the lyrics that came up

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Speaker 1: for me was from Beyonce in the song Dangerously in

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Speaker 1: Love Too. And of course this is like some beautiful,

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Speaker 1: mushy love type stuff, but in the record, Beyonce says,

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Speaker 1: I know it ain't easy easy loving me. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: the love and dedication from you to me. Later on

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Speaker 1: in my destiny, I see myself having your child, I

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Speaker 1: see myself being your wife, and I see my whole

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Speaker 1: future in your eyes. The thought of all your love

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Speaker 1: for me sometimes makes me want to cry. I realize

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Speaker 1: all my blessings. I'm grateful to have you by my side.

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Speaker 1: First of it's just like beautiful. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: are in love, it makes you want to go hug

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Speaker 1: your person. If you're not in love, it makes you

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Speaker 1: wish it you were right. But beyond that, I think

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Speaker 1: it's so easy, unfortunately, and it's such human nature to

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Speaker 1: take for granted those closest to us, right to take

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Speaker 1: their love for granted, to take all the things that

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Speaker 1: they're willing to do for us, To take all of

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Speaker 1: that for granted. I think that's that's such a huge

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Speaker 1: mistake that so many of us make on a regular basis. Right.

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Speaker 1: And this leads to a quote from one of the

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Speaker 1: Stoic Senega where he says joy comes to us from

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Speaker 1: those whom we love even when they are absent. When present,

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Speaker 1: seeing them and associating intimately with them, yields real pleasure.

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Speaker 1: And I think this is beyond the idea of like

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Speaker 1: you and the person that you love or the people

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Speaker 1: that you love. It's the idea of the joy that

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Speaker 1: having that love brings to your life, right, And I

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Speaker 1: think that's where the gratitude needs to come to play,

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Speaker 1: because it's bigger than just the interactions that you have

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Speaker 1: with them. You know, when you feel loved by someone

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Speaker 1: or you know other people, it's innately just going to

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Speaker 1: leave a thumbprint on your life and the rest of

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Speaker 1: your day, right, Like when you are able to think

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Speaker 1: back to moments with that person or the joy you feel,

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Speaker 1: like He's saying, when you see that person, you immediately

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Speaker 1: feel happiness. Like that's a gift, right, And that's not

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Speaker 1: something to be taken for granted. And it's also an

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Speaker 1: essential part of life, right Like everything in life begins

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Speaker 1: and ends with love. You know, without it, it's impossible

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Speaker 1: to be happy or fulfilled. Right. And again, I don't

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Speaker 1: just mean you need to have a wife, a husband,

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Speaker 1: a partner. You know, you need to be in a

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Speaker 1: relationship in order to be happy. I don't believe that,

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Speaker 1: but you do need to have some sort of form

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Speaker 1: of love. And you know, I relate to this on

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Speaker 1: a few different levels. I mean, I'm not currently in

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Speaker 1: a relationship, so I can't relate on that level. But

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Speaker 1: I was listening to a book recently Humble the poet

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Speaker 1: shout out to him. The book is called How to

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Speaker 1: Be Loved, But he was talking about a friend of

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Speaker 1: his who was a mother, and she was so sort

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Speaker 1: of telling him that he doesn't know what love is, right,

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Speaker 1: That you don't actually know love until you have children, right,

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Speaker 1: that that children teach you how to how to really love.

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Speaker 1: And I don't personally have kids, so I can't relate

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Speaker 1: on that level. But I think about my relationship with

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Speaker 1: my parents, and you know, we've had our rocky moments.

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Speaker 1: We've had a point in time where we still saw

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Speaker 1: have an amazing relationship with my parents. You know, we

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Speaker 1: using it in terms of my own relationship with my

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Speaker 1: right and appreciating their unconditional love because of the happiness

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Speaker 1: that's brought to my life. Right, I can't imagine not

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Speaker 1: I know that no matter what happens, good or bad,

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Speaker 1: they're always going to be there by my side, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm always going to have them on my team. Right.

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Speaker 1: And they might they might give me harsh you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of reality checks at times, but at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, they're never going to abandon me, you know,

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Speaker 1: just because I fall in short as a human being.

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Speaker 1: And I think in knowing that it allows you to

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Speaker 1: push past the tough times in this life, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then when the good things do happen, having that

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Speaker 1: cheering section, you know, of people who are genuinely happy

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Speaker 1: for you allows you to really feel that joy to

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Speaker 1: an extent that I think you wouldn't if you were

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Speaker 1: by yourself. Now, with that said, we have heard from

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Speaker 1: Beyonce the Queen, we have heard from one of the stoics, Seneca.

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Speaker 1: I've given you a bit of my own insight into

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Speaker 1: this whole concept of gratitude, specifically from the lens of

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Speaker 1: appreciating those who love you and are a part of

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Speaker 1: your life. Now, let's talk about how you can make

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Speaker 1: it your mantra for today. First, let's take a quick

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Speaker 1: break and then we'll be all right. So we are

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Speaker 1: talking all about the idea of gratitude today, right, And

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Speaker 1: we've heard from Beyonce, We've heard from one of the stoics, Seneca.

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Speaker 1: I've talked a bit about my relationship with my parents,

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Speaker 1: and I think all that comes up for me in

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Speaker 1: this conversation is a reminder to be present, right, to

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Speaker 1: stop and to think about the people that are closest

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Speaker 1: to us. Right, And if we are fortunate enough to

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Speaker 1: have people in our life that we know genuinely love

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Speaker 1: us and we love them, we need to constantly remind

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Speaker 1: ourselves that we're in possession of the greatest gift that

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Speaker 1: a person could ever ask for, love and all that

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Speaker 1: it brings into our lives, and all that it allows

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Speaker 1: us to take with us, and the fuel that it

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Speaker 1: gives us to be the person you want to be.

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Speaker 1: Like Again, there's no greater gift. It's not something that

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Speaker 1: money can buy. It is not something that money can

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Speaker 1: can feel, you know, not avoid that money can fill.

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Speaker 1: It really is something special and the irony of it,

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Speaker 1: even though it's such an important part of our lives

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Speaker 1: and it's something we probably all could recognize all that

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Speaker 1: take for granted more than anything else. The people that

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Speaker 1: are closest to us and the people that are unconditionally

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Speaker 1: there to support and love us, we end up taking

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Speaker 1: them for granted and not really appreciating just how special

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Speaker 1: that connection is, right, And I think that's sort of

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Speaker 1: the main thing I want to drive home and remind

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Speaker 1: you to just get present to that, especially you're having

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Speaker 1: a bad day, you're going through a rough moment, like,

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Speaker 1: remind yourself that if there's someone out there that you

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Speaker 1: love back, like you are in possession of the greatest

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Speaker 1: gift known to man, right and if you are, you know,

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Speaker 1: not in that position right now, you don't feel like

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Speaker 1: you have people like that in your life. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: a focus that you need to start making a priority

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Speaker 1: of how you can begin to invite those types of

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Speaker 1: relationships into your life, be it mending you know, strained

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Speaker 1: relationships or putting yourself out there to meet others, because again,

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Speaker 1: without it, you are sacrificing one of the best things

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Speaker 1: to recap all that we've been talking about today, man,

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Speaker 1: we've heard from Beyonce and her just really breaking it

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Speaker 1: down in simple terms and recognizing the importance and the

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Speaker 1: beauty of somebody who is loving you, even if it

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Speaker 1: isn't easy, right, having that gratitude and not taking that

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Speaker 1: person who's closest to you for granted. Right. We've heard

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Speaker 1: from from Seneca and him talking about how joy comes

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Speaker 1: to us from the relationships that we have involving love

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Speaker 1: it is like, joy all begins with that, right. And

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Speaker 1: from my own personal story recognizing how, you know, my

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Speaker 1: appreciation for my parents has really transformed my level of

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Speaker 1: happiness and fulfillment in this life. And feeling their love

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Speaker 1: unconditionally and pushing myself to try and remain present to

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Speaker 1: it and remain grateful to it and not take it

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Speaker 1: for granted allows me to walk around with but just

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Speaker 1: a bit more happiness and just a bit more joy

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Speaker 1: than I would otherwise. Right now, With that said, thank

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Speaker 1: you for checking out The Streets So podcasts. Do your

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Speaker 1: best to apply these concepts that we discussed into you

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Speaker 1: everyday life, and I'll catch you next time. The Streets

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