So I'm walking down the street doing like farmers carries with you will never guess what I'm carrying
Literally a tree a tree
Last spring our tree was very big like we had a tree in our front yard
That was like overgrown it was starting to like grow into our house and like the leaves were like brushing against our house and
We decided to do something about it
And so I'm like I grabbed my saw and it's springtime
I'm barefoot because I like being barefoot. I'm shirtless because I'm starting to build a nice physique
And I'm like, yeah, let's I'm feeling a little bit more confident and I kind of I just like being shirtless now
and
Then I have this saw like this little like frickin blade that I have and I'm just standing on this tree
Standing on a bunch of mulch tearing apart my feet, but I don't care. I'm sawing off all these little massive branches
huge branches that if they fell on our house, they would actually do
significant damage and
and sawing down the branches and then I get to this one massive branch that if I saw it it will surely
Fall onto our house because just the way it was leaning was already gonna be pushing on to our house
and so I got my dad and he helped me and
Literally I stood on top of the roof of our house on top of the roof
I had to go climb up to the attic and then go out a window literally open up the window and
Climb through the window and this roof was pretty steep
So I had to like crouch down and like kind of butt crawl down
And I once I got to the edge my dad was like, okay, I'm gonna drop it now and I was like, oh, no
I'm getting nervous if I lean forward. I literally fall down the like fall off the house
But anyways, I grabbed the top of the tree and I like push it over and it falls off to the side and
It's like pollen season. I think pollen season in spring season
but it's like
Extremely pollinated that tree because there's a bunch of like
Little things on it that have a lot of pollen and the site was amazing
I was standing on top of the roof and I had a perfect birds-eye view watching the fall
So I pushed it down and this was this massive tree like literally half of the tree
Was falling down in front of me. I just saw it in slow motion. It was falling
boom and
It I literally just saw like all of the leaves like go down and then back up
And then I saw like the bounce back shoot out pollen in all directions
It was an amazing sight to see I just like
The tree fell down
It was like dead silent and then it
And then it went up and then
Oh all the pollen like literally all over the place
That was awesome
But now we had literally an entire tree
hanging out on our sidewalk and
so we have to clean it up so
the only option that I see is
How about I just carry it
So I pick up I literally crouch down. I'm like, okay, so you know those at the gym
there's a
Straight bar deadlift and then there's also like the deadlift bar that goes like around you and it's like a box
I forgot what it's called, but it's kind of like a squat kind of thing, but it's also like a deadlift
So imagine like that kind of deadlift so I squat down and I pretty much am acting like I'm doing that and I grab the tree
The whole tree is behind me all of the leaves
I grabbed a tree and I picked up with both hands and I get into good farmers carry position and
I make sure that I'm evenly carrying the tree so it doesn't like
Drag behind me and I'm just like carrying it down the block
imagine
driving by
Because there were it was like rush hour at this time and so all of the cars were literally just driving by and they see this shirtless
Dude carrying a tree down a block down a city block literally in the suburbs like
Like I'm I live in like Chicago basically
like I can walk four
blocks down and see Chicago, but
Or be in Chicago and so I'm literally just driving or walking down like this looking
looking like a beast
carrying the tree and
I'm just I have to go all the way around my block turn all the way down turn
Go down my alley and do all the way back to the backyard
So I can like put it in our backyard so we can chop it up even more and put it into our compost bin and
I have to do this for like eight trees. So literally that entire afternoon
I'm doing farmers carrying carrying tree after tree after tree and I just remember one time
Probably the biggest tree that I was carrying
This dude in the in a really nice car like drove by and he was like yeah
He's like yeah
like
Like and then I just thought that was cool and so that
Honestly like before I did that I was a little nervous. I was like, yeah, like I'm starting to build a physique now
I don't want to be like
overly like trying to show it off or anything
But I was like no, this is cool like I like being shirtless and barefoot like this is this is what I do
This is what I enjoy
So like that was one of the times where I learned a big lesson
Don't care what you think others think
Like I'm asking myself
Do I really want to
Do
One potentially destroy an upcoming amazing experience or memory and story to tell
Like and put on my shirt and not be myself
And also do I really want to adhere to the societal norms?
No screw society screw societal norms
No society is great. I we all benefit a lot from society, but
We put ourselves into a trap
like
This is something that like I've been trying to destroy for forever
But we put ourselves into a thinking trap
where
We're kind of thinking like oh, I hope I don't get judged. Oh this that oh this is not normal
But I kind of want to do it and then you don't do it
But that's when you should do it because want to expand your comfort zone to it tells yourself
This is the type of things that I do like this is just what I do like this is the type of person
I am I do what I want even though I
Think that other like even though society may not like it well
And yes, there is a fine line like of course don't do something that society
Like will put you in prison for but like for those societal
expectations
Like something harmless like literally walking down shirtless
So
That's it