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Nobody's going to walk around and say, you know what, I'm just hopeless.

I don't really have any hopes deep down.

Not really. People don't advertise that sort of thing.

That's true.

I read an article this morning and it was about, it was a young woman wrote it, it was so honest

and so vulnerable and so well written and so hopeless.

It was about her going with her boyfriend a

Burning Man Festival and just all the stuff that they were doing there and her

perspective she has no clue but she intuits that this is something what we're doing here is so

weird we're not we're looking for something none of us are getting yeah they're

trying to build community trying to they're doing all these different kinds of drugs and stuff to you, but like it's in hopes of finding something transcendent. She can't find it. And that's how the article is. Oh, wow. Most people aren't going to be that

honest. But I do think that's most people walking around. Trying so hard. That would show the, that would say why there's so much fear and anxiety.

Absolutely.

I can't articulate it and that's also why, like if you're a person of hope, be hopeful and let people ask you why.

Regarding wrapping gifts, if you don't mind, I'd like to make us subtle suggestion.

Okay.

And that is, please let me.

Yes, go ahead.

Okay.

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