Asante (86:56)
Anyway, she was telling me about how. How she was fighting for a cause and she felt this exhaustion because she felt like it was draining her. And basically she decided to live her life differently in little ways by, like, not consuming certain things and not trying to give into these machines and trying to, like, put me on really radically, which was super dope. And I was like, you know, it's dope that people like this exist, right? But then I think about how a lot of us, we didn't make it there. I don't know. So I thought that was admirable. But I thought it was so relatable because so many people nowadays, you know, we see these comments, causes we want to fight, we want to march, and there's so much that we have to do, and we want to do what we need to be doing. And so imagine when you're not in that space of where you're trying to fight, even though every day is a fight, right? Imagine when you're not in that space of where you wanting to fight and just keeps happening, or new news keeps piling up, it's so hard to breathe. But imagine when you stepped outside of that news cycle or you're trying to just do everything that you can to make yourself healthy enough, enough to be able to fight, right? And I think about you, and this is minuscule because the car, like we say it's a car, blah, blah, blah. But it's so big because what I was telling you before about the car, it's big that you as a New Yorker in your adulthood, you decided to do something new. Like, we saw Crystal go back and get her master's degree. And so many people decide to get their masters. You decide to get behind a wheel, which for some people, that's an everyday thing that they take for granted, you know, Right. For me, I don't drive and. And thinking about driving is super intimidating to me. Even though I could think about being a child, get behind that wheel and being like, I am driving, which was dangerous and crazy. But now I've. I'm so far removed. I actually do have, like this jitter of, like, it's going to be crazy when I get behind the wheel. Like, I have to, like, really just spend some time with a car. And there are People that have to get these special licenses to transport, you know, goods every day that luckily I thank God they are not crashing on a regular basis. I hope that they are not. But then you have these regular people that take it for granted. And we've talked on this show even before this about, like, Karen Huger and her drunk driving, like, how people just should not. And I told you, like, I admitted, like, you know, when I was younger, I thought that was cute. But as an adult, like, I super acknowledge that that is not. No cute. And like, I see how that can affect other people. And I think about how I normalize and. And it is normalized because so many people will be like, yeah, you know, I do that. I've done that. I made it home a bunch of times. I'll still do that. It's like, no, you've done that. And you need to thank God that you made it through it and. And make the change that. And stop, right? And literally cut it out. Learn the lesson before it's too late. That's why there are certain things that happen. And I'm like, all right, this has happened to me. This was crazy that I did this, but I have to make a change. So there are certain things that we do that are preventative, right? So, like, for you, you set your life up to where you can insulate certain things, but it doesn't. You don't insulate yourself to the point to where you're like, trying to keep away from the real. You're just trying to insulate yourself to where you can be a healthy person that can continue to pour into other people and make. And build these ecosystems or make them build each other. Or like you are trying to give back and pour in. So when something like this happens to you, it makes you wonder, like, what is going on? Like, where. Like, is there a leak? Because I know how you are. You're like, is there a leak somewhere you already know.
