I wanted to share a little bit of inspiration with you guys and gals. This video speaks to me on a lot of levels, because the messages he’s saying are so positive. Everyone says them, everyone can relate to them on any level. But do we ever listen to them? Do we ever believe them?
So to give you a little background on this guy, his name is OlanRogers on youtube, and I recommend checking him out because he has some of the funniest video’s I’ve ever seen. But that’s not what this post is about; I’m not promoting his youtube channel in anyway. What I want to do is talk about his video; I want to talk about what how it spoke to me, and the lessons that I’m taking away from it.
So, this is a little documentary video about this guys tour, where he went around the country and had a “pizza party”, and met with his fans. He’s so humble, at one point at the beginning of the video he is so surprised when someone comes to tell him that there are 20 people at his event early on and he is surprised that 20 people want to meet him. This speaks to me, because I feel like as we get older and more things come to us, we forget to be humble and appreciate the things that are given to us.
Later on he talks about how he feels like he’s failing at this tour because people have to wait to meet him. Even though thousands of people are coming out to meet him, even though he’s exhausted and his feel like they’re going to fall off… He feels like he’s failing because people have to wait to meet him. He tells his friend that he feels like his failing, and his friend simply tells him that he’s got his back and Olan starts to break down.
He says, “that’s why you surround yourself with positive people”. This part is not only touching but also true. I think that there s a lot “every man for himself” mentality today. People are too wrapped up in themselves to care about other people. But then there’s the 10% of people, and to think that I’m included in this group of people. Who actually care about the people around them, who will “have someone’s back” and actually appreciate it when it happens to them. I also think that we need to surround ourselves with positive people more often. Because, it’s so easy to get caught up in being negitive, feeling sorry for yourself all the time. If we surround outselves with positive people, we invite positive energy into ourselves and therefore it forces us to be happy. I think that there aren’t enough happy people in this world, and it makes me sad.
“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself”
– Charlie Chaplin
This is the quote that he has right after this segment. I think this quote speaks volumes. People are always afraid of trying new things, they’re afraid that if they try something and fail it makes you a weaker person. For me I know this is true. I spent my two years at the university I attend completely miserable, getting the worst grades in the world. All because I was stuck in a major that was completely wrong for me, where I was uninspired and couldn’t comprehend a thing that I was was learning. But I stuck with it for two years because I was afraid that if I change my major that it meant I was a failure.
It literally took me having an emotional break down in front of one of my best friends, who was tutoring me at the time to realize, hey you need a change. So the next day I saw someone in the career center at my school, took some tests, talked to some people and in the middle of my junior year of college… say it with me JUNIOR YEAR I changed my major. A lot of people told me I was absolutely crazy, a lot of people made fun of me behind my back for not being able to hack it in my old major. But my true friends, the “positive people” in my life, they were so happy because they saw how miserable I was before and said it was like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders after.
You see change and positive people can literally save lives. Because I can guarantee you that before I made this change, I was so unhappy that I swear I probably would have just dropped out of college. I thought about it literally everyday. But I took a risk, a big one and it paid off. Sure I still have no idea what I’m going to due with my life, but say by day. I’m realizing that even though some days I feel like a complete failure at life. At least I’m a happy failure and I’m attempting to figure my life out.
Around the 7:50 mark, is where my true inspiration started to really kick in. this is the point where I realized that I actually wanted to share this and talk about it a bit. He says, “I hope you those of you who are feeling discouraged right now know that you can do anything that you can put your mind to.” He later says, “There will be people who will say you can’t make a living out of this, you can’t make a living out of something that you love to do. But are you really living by not doing it?” I could go on and on with quotes from this segment. But really you just have to watch it to feel the powerfulness of it all.
I feel like we have a lot of people tell us this, from a young age our parents tell us, our teachers tell us, our friends tell us. But I honestly, from my own personal experiences don’t believe this. Either what we want to do is too hard, or it’s scary or its something else. We make excuses to justify why we can’t do things. But we have the capacity to do whatever it is that we want, and I wished more people had an outlook like this guy… Hell I wish I had this guys outlook because, like I said at the beginning of this long, over drawn almost rant like post, its inspirational.
Finding my way, 