You're talking about VEM yesterday as well.

You can't take people's...

People's optimism away.

It's very dangerous.

I don't want to say hope.

But optimism and positive attitude about the ability for people to change and for situations to change,

you can't shit on that parade all day long to a certain extent.

It should be tampered with.

However, your expectations should be metered based on past performances of individuals,

past report cards of individuals, etc.

So that you can make educated decisions on where they're going,

what they're likely to do instead of having blind trust and

actionless hope,

paralyzing hope.

Some time ago,

somebody told me you have to be like a shark.

Sharks never stop moving.

These fuckers are always cruising around.

They don't sleep either.

If they do, it's brief.

Buddy mine contacted me, said, he's having surgery in May or June, and the doctor told him it might not work if he doesn't lose some weight

What should you do? I said well, what do you do? What's your activity level? Because we're going to be talking about this in 2025. You know why I am sick of talking about all this other shit that doesn't matter.

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