1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,240 So what's something that you wish you could do, 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:03,160 but you just can't? 3 00:00:04,020 --> 00:00:05,880 Is it starting that business? 4 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,640 Is it traveling the world? 5 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:12,640 Or maybe it's just allowing yourself to say yes, or no. 6 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,560 Now, oftentimes we come to a crossroads 7 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,200 where we have to make a decision, 8 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:17,920 but for some reason, 9 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,080 we want to allow ourselves the chance to change. 10 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,720 Well, today's character that best represents this 11 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,280 is the sniper who can't shoot people, 12 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,040 is Chica Amatore. 13 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:33,040 Hey, what's going on guys? 14 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:38,000 My name is Nate. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,080 You're listening to the Otaku Liberation, 16 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,960 a show where we help you break free from the chains 17 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:43,320 that are holding you back in your life 18 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:44,840 by connecting some biblical principles 19 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,880 with things from your favorite anime. 20 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,880 And without further ado, let's get into it. 21 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,360 And so for today's verse that I'm going over 22 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,320 with this episode is actually 23 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,560 Philippians chapter four, verse six. 24 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,560 And that says, don't worry about anything, 25 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,160 but in everything through prayer and petition 26 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,580 with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 27 00:01:07,580 --> 00:01:11,160 And the key points I want to pull out from that 28 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,640 is the beginning says don't worry about anything. 29 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,760 And then towards the end it says, 30 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:19,600 present your request to God. 31 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,000 And so let me start with the don't worry about anything. 32 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,920 So I know, especially for me personally, 33 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,280 I used to have a bad habit of worrying 34 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,920 about things that are beyond my control, 35 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,200 which is literally everything else in the world 36 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:36,360 besides myself. 37 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,880 And the biggest thing was what other people thought about me 38 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:45,200 and what they may say, what they might think. 39 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,520 If I did this and that and third, growing up in school, 40 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,520 it was, if I wasn't always at the top of the class, 41 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,760 well, people say, they all been, you've lost your edge. 42 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,480 You're not as smart as you think you are type thing. 43 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,760 If I were to fail at something, especially sports, 44 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,320 because I tend to overthink things 45 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,280 that hinder my physical performance in sports. 46 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,200 And it's like, man, people just think I suck. 47 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,480 I'm letting the team down, things like that. 48 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:18,160 And even starting this podcast, 49 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,400 what are the people going to think about it? 50 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,240 Are they going to like it? 51 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:21,400 Are they going to hate it? 52 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,480 Are they going to hate me personally 53 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,200 because I don't, you know, 54 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,520 essentially preaching the gospel through anime, 55 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,120 it's like, oh, that's a taboo. 56 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,560 You can't do that. 57 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:32,400 Who knows? 58 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,400 I don't know. 59 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,520 I honestly don't know. 60 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,920 And again, so this verse kind of came to me. 61 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,800 It's like, just don't worry. 62 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,000 Just don't worry about it. 63 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,280 Just give it all to God, let him work it out. 64 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,480 And that's it. 65 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:47,400 I mean, that's literally it. 66 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,600 There's nothing more, nothing more than that. 67 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,680 And it's easier said than done. 68 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,760 Definitely that's something that we have to actively choose 69 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,680 to do each and every day in each and every moment. 70 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,480 And even now I still have things that I worry about 71 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,360 sometimes where I have to just take a step back, 72 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,400 take a deep breath and just say, 73 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,240 okay, God, I'm going to let you handle it. 74 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,080 I'm just going to let you handle it. 75 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:07,360 I'm not going to worry about it. 76 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,800 But I know it took a lot for me to get to that point 77 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,840 where I can just readily drop it and give it to God. 78 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,440 And for today's character, Chica, 79 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,480 is something that she's still struggling with, 80 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,400 but she's getting better with herself. 81 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,920 And what she's worried about is essentially 82 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:33,600 people blaming her, blaming her for her actions. 83 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,400 And it doesn't give you a little context to that. 84 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,600 So again, like I said before, 85 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,640 in World Trigger, the power system is called Trion, right? 86 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,040 Trion is something that all living creatures have, 87 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,040 and you have a pretty set amount 88 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,880 from the moment you're born, right? 89 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,720 And in the previous episode, 90 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,920 I covered Osamu who has below average amounts of Trion, 91 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,040 like abysmal levels. 92 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Chica is the exact opposite of them. 93 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,840 I think they've stated she has the most out of everyone 94 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,840 in the series that we've seen thus far. 95 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,440 And I mean, her volume and density of it is massive. 96 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,440 And because of that, she grants unwanted attention 97 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,600 from the neighbors, which again, 98 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,560 for those who don't remember or who don't know, 99 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,480 the neighbors are essentially the neighboring planets 100 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,200 that are close to Earth's orbit in an alternate dimension. 101 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,520 And then they cross over 102 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,720 since they're closer neighbors at this point. 103 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,360 And the neighbors are essentially just the term to use 104 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,040 for the aliens themselves. 105 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,920 And because of Chica's high Trion levels, 106 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,280 the aliens are trying to come take her 107 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:44,240 and use her essentially as a, 108 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,000 at first we thought it was just a fuel source, 109 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,680 but we learned later on in the series 110 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,920 for something even bigger than that. 111 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,400 But the biggest thing is that Chica's always been targeted 112 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,800 by neighbors since she was like a small child. 113 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,800 And it was because of this that ultimately 114 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,720 one of her friends ends up getting taken instead of her. 115 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,040 Because of Chica's high Trion levels, 116 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,880 she has an ability that she can sense 117 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,960 when the neighbors are near. 118 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,520 So she always knew when one of them was around her. 119 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,360 So that made it hard for them to be able to capture her. 120 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,880 But for her friend, that wasn't the case. 121 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,640 And one time when she again, 122 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,160 I think she was in like in grade school, 123 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,160 something like that, 124 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,400 her friend ends up getting taken by the neighbors 125 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,640 because she was essentially, because she was close to Chica 126 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,960 and she can do anything about it. 127 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,440 And the crazy thing is before the kidnapping happened, 128 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,560 Chica would tell the teachers, the other kids, 129 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,560 to her parents about these creatures 130 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:53,600 that are trying to get her. 131 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,720 Because at this point, border was still secret. 132 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,480 The neighbors weren't common knowledge. 133 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,480 So no one knew about this alien threat. 134 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,560 No one knew about it. 135 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,480 So at the time they just thought, 136 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,520 what most adults think when they hear a small child 137 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,080 frantic about something that they think 138 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,720 is just make believe, right? 139 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:16,400 And because of that, no one paid her any mind 140 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,920 until her friend ended up disappearing. 141 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,120 And then at that moment, they all went back to what 142 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,880 Chica had been saying prior to this, 143 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,120 was that, you know, maybe they're all creatures out there. 144 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,360 Maybe she is right. 145 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:35,040 And then somehow, because they got this twisted idea 146 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,840 in their mind that she was to blame 147 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:38,680 for her friend's disappearance. 148 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:43,080 Because of what she did or didn't do, 149 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,400 that she is the reason that her friend disappeared. 150 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,960 Now, us as viewers, we kind of know it's kind of right, 151 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,120 but kind of not right. 152 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:52,320 Because the neighbors were just taking 153 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,360 a lot of people at that point. 154 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,720 And like her friend wasn't the only one to be taken. 155 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,200 But the neighbors were targeting Chica 156 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,160 because of her huge amount of try-ons. 157 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,640 So you could argue it kind of, 158 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,040 it wasn't her fault intentionally, 159 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,680 but it's just one of those things of circumstance. 160 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:14,360 But regardless of the fact, that stuck with her 161 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,320 up until where we are in the story now. 162 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:22,320 And that just fed into her inability to shoot people. 163 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:24,640 Right? 164 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,280 So in Border, the agents have different classes 165 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,000 they can be, more or less. 166 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,840 I think class is the best thing I can use to describe it. 167 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,240 And Chica decided to be a sniper. 168 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:40,160 And the crazy thing is because her sniper, 169 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,720 her shots aren't like normal shots. 170 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,280 They call her the cannon because due to her huge amount 171 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,160 of try-on when she pulls the trigger, 172 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,160 it's literally like a cannon being shot off. 173 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,840 And she just decimates the area. 174 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,360 And it's kind of a running thing throughout the series. 175 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,280 And because of that, people initially thought, 176 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,280 oh man, she's gonna be just a huge threat. 177 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:02,680 No matter what squad she joins, 178 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,640 she's just gonna be just a menace on the battlefield. 179 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,040 But they soon realized that she freezes up 180 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,040 and she has to take aim at people. 181 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:12,640 Now she can shoot buildings all day long. 182 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,560 She can shoot buildings and level the map. 183 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,040 But the minute she has to do essentially 184 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,520 what a sniper is there to do and to take out 185 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,400 the opposition, the enemy agents, 186 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,440 she can't pull the trigger. 187 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:26,520 She freezes up. 188 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,240 And more than once has that cost her team 189 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,240 some serious damage, whether it's her not scoring points 190 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,880 where she could have or by her not taking a shot 191 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,960 is inadvertently cause either Osama or Yuma 192 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,800 to lose in their respective battles 193 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,280 and causing their team to essentially lose out 194 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,160 on either the match entirely or just on points 195 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:51,400 they could have had. 196 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,960 And for me as a watcher or a seer, 197 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,800 that was so frustrating to see is like, 198 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,720 you're so good, but you're not living up to your potential. 199 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:07,160 You're not doing what essentially what you need to do. 200 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:12,160 And looking back on it now, it was selfish of me to say, 201 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,760 right, to this anime character. 202 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,480 But think about how oftentimes we just think about people 203 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,720 or we see somebody who we just, sorry. 204 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,360 How many think about how we see people 205 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,960 who we think they could do better with their lives, 206 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,240 but for some reason they just don't, 207 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,000 they don't, they're always stuck in this hamster 208 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,520 with this self sabotaging cycle. 209 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,840 And we don't know what it is because again, 210 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:39,840 we're not them, right? 211 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:41,520 We can't read minds, we can't, 212 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,080 we can sympathize with what they're going through, 213 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,200 but we can't understand it because we're not going through 214 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:49,920 what they're going through, right? 215 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,840 And because at the end of the day, we're all unique. 216 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,400 We're all unique people. 217 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,520 We can go through similar situations, 218 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,320 similar circumstances, so we have that level of empathy 219 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,680 for it, but we don't truly understand it 220 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:02,760 because we're not them. 221 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,320 Two people going through the same scenario 222 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,480 can handle it completely different ways, 223 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,320 just based on their own personality, 224 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,040 their own mental toughness, so to speak. 225 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:19,040 And I know, so for Chico on the outside looking in, 226 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:20,920 people just thought she was afraid, 227 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,040 she was afraid of shooting people 228 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,360 because she didn't want to take another person's life, 229 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:30,360 that she didn't want to be someone 230 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:34,080 who just kills people, right? 231 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,040 Even though in the anime, no one really dies, 232 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,400 since these are all mock battles, 233 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,960 but it's just that mindset, right? 234 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,640 And so when she joined Border, 235 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,960 it's kind of funny, she joined Border 236 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,720 in order to search for her brother, right? 237 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,280 I mean, it's kind of the main premise of the story. 238 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,720 So Chica joined to find her brother 239 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,440 because he went off into the neighborhood 240 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,440 and into the alternate dimension of his own free will, 241 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,360 but she's trying to find out why he left. 242 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,160 And that's the reason why Osamu wants to go too, 243 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,880 because Chica's brother actually taught Osamu 244 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,440 about Border and triggers and all that stuff. 245 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:15,760 So that's their connection. 246 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,920 They want to essentially find him 247 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,080 and find out why he left. 248 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,560 But even after joining Border and becoming a sniper 249 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:28,320 and joining the squad with Osamu and Yuma, 250 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,320 Chica's still unable to shoot people, 251 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,520 even when the need is there for her 252 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,640 to make a decision to take action. 253 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:41,640 And part of this is twofold, 254 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:43,320 but it's the same problem, 255 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,760 is that we tend to make excuses, right? 256 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,640 We tend to make excuses for ourselves 257 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,440 as to why we can't do this, that, and the third. 258 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,280 We tend to blame other people. 259 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,000 We tend to blame our circumstances. 260 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,920 We tend to blame our luck or a lot on life about, 261 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,520 oh man, I can't start this business 262 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,080 because my wife won't support me on it 263 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,960 or my husband won't support me on it. 264 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,360 I was like, okay, well, 265 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,120 have you really had a conversation with him? 266 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,920 Have you sat down and tried to have 267 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:17,360 like a full-on conversation, 268 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,560 or did you just say, hey, I'm thinking about doing this 269 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,600 with no explanation whatsoever, right? 270 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,960 It's like one of those different type of deals 271 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,160 where are you really giving it your all 272 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,080 or are you just saying you are 273 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:35,000 to make yourself look good or to convince yourself 274 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 that you're really doing everything that you can. 275 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,160 And I mean, that's a serious question. 276 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:42,480 Like I'm seriously asking, 277 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:43,320 because I mean, this is a question 278 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,360 I had to ask myself multiple times, 279 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:46,520 multiple, multiple times. 280 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,720 Am I really giving it my all 281 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,280 or am I really just saying that to convince myself 282 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,000 that the mediocre work I'm putting in is enough? 283 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,480 And sometimes the answer is yes, 284 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,400 I'm literally giving it my all, 285 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:01,480 there's nothing more I can do. 286 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,360 And honestly, sometimes it's no, 287 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,280 I'm just being lazy. 288 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:11,280 I don't feel like making myself uncomfortable 289 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,480 by trying new things. 290 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,560 I don't feel like trying to grow 291 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:18,040 and be better at this thing that I'm trying to do. 292 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,600 And let me say, the truth hurts, 293 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,520 no matter where you hear it from. 294 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,640 But it's so often since we as people 295 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,120 wanna be as comfortable as possible, 296 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,200 we don't wanna try to do different things, 297 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,520 try to go outside of a comfort zone. 298 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,040 We'll make excuses that sound good and grand 299 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,920 to justify us not taking action. 300 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,160 And honestly, I think the worst part of it is 301 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,760 others will make excuses for us as well. 302 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,280 And nine times out of 10 is those who are closest to you 303 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,040 because they care about your emotions 304 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,720 more than they care about you. 305 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,240 And it's not intentional, it's not intentional. 306 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,920 Most of us have been raised and taught to 307 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,560 be considerate of other people's feelings and their emotion 308 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:04,480 and be understanding and sympathetic and things like that. 309 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,240 But to a certain extent, that can be detrimental, 310 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:12,240 especially when you see someone self-sabotaging themselves 311 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,160 and their potential and what they could possibly do. 312 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:20,160 When you make excuses with them to justify 313 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:21,760 their self-sabotage behavior, 314 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:23,960 you're just enabling the badness. 315 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,320 You're just enabling them to essentially 316 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:31,800 throw the pity party to not really give it their all 317 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,400 and to, and honestly just to go through life 318 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:36,920 instead of just living it. 319 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,960 And in Sheikah's case, it was Osamu and Yuma, 320 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,120 they're always coming for her on the battlefield 321 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,080 and off it. 322 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,480 And again, it's coming from a place of good intentions. 323 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,320 They're her friends, they don't want her to do anything 324 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,280 that she doesn't wanna do, 325 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,080 that she doesn't feel comfortable with. 326 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,680 And again, it's from good intentions 327 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:57,160 and I definitely get that. 328 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,920 We don't want, you don't wanna push someone 329 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,720 before they're ready, 330 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,080 but sometimes you need to push them so they can be ready. 331 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:10,080 And because we, since we're alone with our own thoughts, 332 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,280 alone with our own thoughts all the time, 333 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,040 it's easy to convince ourselves that we can't do this, 334 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,640 we can't do that, we're not good enough, 335 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,680 we're not ready, we're not this, that and the third 336 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,360 where it takes an outside force, 337 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,800 someone else looking in to say, no, that's not the case. 338 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,680 You have the potential, you can do it. 339 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:31,600 Is it gonna be hard? 340 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,600 Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. 341 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:35,880 That's the difference. 342 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,400 And like I say, like again, 343 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,080 since we're taught to be considerate of people's feelings, 344 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,320 sometimes we don't say what needs to be said 345 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,120 because I don't want them to be upset, 346 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,400 I don't want to make them more upset if they already are, 347 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:50,960 I don't want them to be mad at me, 348 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,520 I don't want them to feel any worse about themselves. 349 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,720 Whereas sometimes they just need to hit in the mouth 350 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,160 and it's like, hey, suck it up, this is what it is, 351 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,760 this is, you gotta make a decision, right? 352 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,200 Now, I'll admit that doesn't work for everybody at every time, 353 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,040 but you need to have someone in your circle 354 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:12,240 who is honest with you, completely, utterly honest 355 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,440 with your strengths, your flaws, 356 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,800 the good, the bad and the ugly, 357 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,400 who can give it to you straight no matter what. 358 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:19,320 You being a knucklehead, 359 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,040 they're gonna tell you you're being a knucklehead. 360 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:22,960 If you're being too soft on yourself, 361 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:24,880 they're gonna tell you being too soft on yourself, 362 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:25,800 being too hard on yourself, 363 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,920 you're not giving yourself the chance to change. 364 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,680 And basically I'm here to tell you you're being stupid 365 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,800 and to get it together. 366 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,800 And for Chica, for the longest time, 367 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,440 she didn't have that, 368 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:42,440 she didn't have someone there 369 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,760 to essentially knock that sense into her. 370 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:51,760 But there was two times where someone alluded to the fact 371 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,520 that Chica is just making excuses, 372 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,560 it's not some grand fear of shooting people 373 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,640 or that she can't bring herself to do it. 374 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,080 And the reason why is so, 375 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,960 to compensate for the fact that she can shoot people 376 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,880 with actual try-on bullets, 377 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,320 she came up with a method to shoot them 378 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,160 with lead bullets instead, which they're non-lethal, 379 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:13,920 they just slow the targets down long enough 380 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,840 for Yuma to get them. 381 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,160 And the person who made the observation 382 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,280 was one of the veteran snipers on in border. 383 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,000 He was like, if she was truly afraid to shoot people, 384 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,480 she would never shoot anyone with any type of bullet. 385 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,360 But the fact that she can shoot people down 386 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:34,880 with the lead ones remorselessly, without remorse, 387 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,760 is that shows that she can pull the trigger 388 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:39,160 and she's just choosing not to, 389 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,800 for whatever the reason is, she's just choosing not to. 390 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,680 And so that was the first time. 391 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,600 And the second time was when their squad 392 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,800 got their second ace, Hughes, 393 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,960 Hughes brought it to the fact that he was like, 394 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,560 no, no, no, I think she can do it. 395 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,080 And she's just refusing to shoot people. 396 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,920 It's not from the fact that she can't do it, 397 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:01,520 it's the fact that she won't. 398 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,200 And that kind of shocked everyone. 399 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,400 They were like, hey man, you just joined the team. 400 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,720 What do you know? 401 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,600 And Hughes is a war veteran. 402 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,400 I mean, he's a prisoner of war 403 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,000 and he's been on the battlefield. 404 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,120 He's seen enough action to know the difference 405 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:18,560 between someone who can't do something 406 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,000 and someone who won't. 407 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,440 And ironically enough, he was really the deciding factor 408 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,560 to help her find a resolve 409 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,840 in order to start actually taking real shots. 410 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,080 Because he brought up this point to her, 411 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:36,240 is like, right now these are just mock battles, 412 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,000 but when you go on the away mission, 413 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,320 when you go out into the neighborhood, 414 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,320 these are gonna be real enemies out there. 415 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,960 And your inability to shoot 416 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,520 is gonna end up costing your friends their lives. 417 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,440 And it's when that reality hit her and it shook her, 418 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,520 and she realized, I need to make a change, 419 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,480 not for myself, but for my team, 420 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,960 for my friends who've had my back since the beginning. 421 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:03,960 And that is the type of change that we all, 422 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:09,520 I know for me personally that I'm doing better at, 423 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,120 is that our inability to change, 424 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:15,280 our, well, I'm saying inability, 425 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:16,680 our reluctance to change, 426 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,560 our reluctance to give up the excuses 427 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,320 and to really just risk it all 428 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,840 and go for broke on something, 429 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,520 is gonna end up costing somebody 430 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,360 their lives somewhere out there, right? 431 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,080 And it may not be as someone as close to you 432 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:32,360 as your friend, as your family, 433 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,760 but it can be just a complete stranger, right? 434 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,960 I'm just trying to put it into perspective that, 435 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,400 all the different motivational coaches 436 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,600 and speakers out there, 437 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,440 all the ones who, I've seen some in the post 438 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:52,800 and I've seen some in the comments on their posts, 439 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,200 where it's like, you saved my life in my darkest hour 440 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:01,200 because I heard your one video, your one speech. 441 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,000 Sometimes it's even just a single quote, 442 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,920 just a single word resonates with somebody on a level 443 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,040 that you're not even aware of. 444 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,040 But if you're too afraid to just take that chance 445 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:13,400 to really put yourself out there, 446 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,200 to really go for broke, 447 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,960 and you're too worried about what other people 448 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,400 are gonna say and think, 449 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,760 then you may be forfeiting the life 450 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:24,760 of so many other people 451 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,840 that you would never know, 452 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:29,400 that you would never know. 453 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:34,040 And I mean, that's pretty much all it took for Chica. 454 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,560 She decided to, she can start shooting real bullets now 455 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,320 because she figured that helping her friends 456 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,280 outweigh the possible backlash from others. 457 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:47,160 She figured that, despite what everyone else might say, 458 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,000 because again, none of this is confirmed. 459 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,840 She's living in the what if scenario. 460 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:55,000 And boy, have I lived in the what if scenario 461 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,800 for too, too, too long now about, 462 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:00,440 what if they say this? 463 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:01,360 What if they say that? 464 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,520 What if they don't like this? 465 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:03,360 What if they don't like that? 466 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:06,760 It's like, and in the day, you just gotta go. 467 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,800 That's it, you just gotta go, you gotta move. 468 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,480 You have to decide that the reward 469 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,840 is greater than the regret. 470 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,480 And I was like, I don't think anyone wants to live 471 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,760 in regret, and I don't think anyone wants to just stay there 472 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,000 all the time with the what could have shit us. 473 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,640 And I know I feel better to have tried something 474 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,440 and I failed at it than to know what could have been 475 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,240 if I never tried it at all. 476 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:36,120 And I mean, honestly, that's it. 477 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:38,760 That's pretty much it, is that we can't, 478 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,600 don't hold yourself back, right? 479 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,760 Don't count yourself out before you've even started. 480 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,320 Allow yourself the chance to change. 481 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,520 Allow yourself to fail at something 482 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,360 so you can have the opportunity to be great 483 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:53,480 at something else. 484 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,960 Because if you never try, if you never take the chance, 485 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,280 if you keep making excuses for yourself, 486 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,600 if you keep allowing other people to make excuses for you, 487 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,880 then you're never gonna reach the potential 488 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,360 that you've always been meant to reach. 489 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:10,720 Because I do realize we all have different columns in life, 490 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,520 we all have different values, different things 491 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,680 that we bring to the world. 492 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,400 And it's up to us to discover it, 493 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,320 and it's up to us to hone it and to really master it 494 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,200 and just put it out there, right? 495 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,960 Because I truly believe that we all have gifts 496 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,280 that aren't just meant for us, 497 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,400 they're meant for other people out there, 498 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,400 they're meant for your family, your community, 499 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,400 your country, the world, whatever it is. 500 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,760 And it doesn't have to be, some of it might not even be now, 501 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,680 it might not even be while you're alive. 502 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,320 Your gift and potential may not be truly recognized 503 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,360 until long after you're dead and gone. 504 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:48,800 But if you never start now, 505 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,040 then that's never gonna happen. 506 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,080 There's just never gonna happen. 507 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,320 A lot of people are never gonna see the light of day. 508 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,000 And I just wanna encourage you guys to, 509 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,600 just take the leap of faith, just take the faith. 510 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,760 Don't worry about it anymore. 511 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,640 Just let it go, pray about it, give it to God, 512 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,960 let him do what he does best, which is everything. 513 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,680 And just really take that load off, 514 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,480 and then just move with the peace and assurance 515 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,240 knowing that he got you no matter what, 516 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,240 no matter what all the other flawed people on this earth 517 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,640 are gonna say about you. 518 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,920 The perfect one is, he's already say, 519 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,520 this is done, you're forgiven 520 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,600 for whatever you've done in the past. 521 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,920 And I know what I've given you 522 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,120 and what I've called you to do. 523 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:38,600 So I just need you to walk in that path. 524 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,480 And that's it, that's it. 525 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,840 Honestly, it's easier said than done, 526 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,760 but I promise you, if you overthink it, 527 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,000 you're gonna just make it worse, 528 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,040 like we always tend to do. 529 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,200 We're just gonna muck it up. 530 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,920 So don't overthink it. 531 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,920 Take a step back, take a deep breath, 532 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,880 and just go, that's it. 533 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,360 So all right, I wanna thank you guys 534 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,320 for tuning into today's episode. 535 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,000 I pray that you got what you needed out of it, 536 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,600 and hopefully you learned something new about yourself. 537 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,960 Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. 538 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,400 I love reading guys' comments, 539 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,800 and it helps me improve each and every episode. 540 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,680 And always remember, you are the main character of your story, 541 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,680 and that story doesn't end until he says so. 542 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:16,840 All right, be blessed. 543 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:45,920 And I'll see you next time.