2 truths and a lie

The speaker talks about two truths and a lie in life. The two truths are life and death. He emphasizes the importance of living our lives to the fullest and not fearing change. The lie is fear itself, especially the fear of change. He encourages listeners to embrace change and make decisions that lead to their happiness. He also mentions the importance of pushing boundaries and not sticking to what is comfortable. Overall, the message is to embrace change and pursue happiness in life. Good morning and grand rise to everybody. Willie Whittle here. It shall be dope. So let's get into it guys and ladies for that baby. This one I call two truths and a lie. In life we get faced with so many decisions and sometimes we want to make choices based off of how we feel, right? And as we move forward with those choices, you know what you want out of them and then sometimes you don't. You just wing it. You see how it goes. But here's the thing for me. No matter what, at some point you get faced with some truths and sometimes we get faced with things that we don't want to face, which we lie about. Let me be a little more clear. So the two truths that I want to talk about today are life and death. Those are the two truths that we do have. We have a life. If you're alive, hopefully well, if not, you have the opportunity to change that. I have the opportunity to change me every day and I need to get up and do so, but the truth is I'm here right now and I can't deny that I'm here right now. I know that there are some people who may be a conspiracy theorist or if you're in the Marvel movies and you watch Secret Invasion with Nick Fury and then you're like, are you something else? You're some kind of alien or whatnot. I like it. I'm here for it, but I don't believe it. I'm here in the flesh and I have a life to live and I have a purpose. The other truth that we generally don't talk about, and I don't want to get too dark because I know I can, but it's death. We get faced with death on the occasion, whether it's close to us, usually, I don't know who all goes from this age old adage, but death usually comes in threes to certain people. For me, I don't think that was true. My wife passed in February, my brother passed in January, and that was it. But those was two big ones that hurt and I don't know how I could have did a third at the time, but it was what it was and that's the truth about it. People die. We hit our timeframe. You've been here for our lifetime and unfortunately that dash in the middle of what they put on our headstone is supposed to be something that we make what it is. Now here's the lie. Fear. Fear of change. A lot of us are scared to change and why? What are we lying to ourselves about that makes us scared to change, to pursue, to persevere into something else, something different, to journey and to venture, to dream and to live our lives the way that we are supposed to. If you like something, try it out. If you're not sure, be cautious, but give it a shot. I can say that right now and I'm telling you this, if somebody tries to put me on an airplane and say jump off the side, I ain't doing it. I ain't doing it. That's something that I know. My truth is I ain't jumping out of a plane, but I don't fear change anymore. The fact that I'm here talking to whoever wants to listen, whoever wants to hear me, I was nervous. I was scared. I was timid. I was afraid and now I'm not too scared to change. I had to be faced with the real truth and then understand my other truth to know that I was lying to myself and scaring myself into being fearful, so to speak. There's no reason for us to fear change. We should embrace it. Sometimes you get hit with the truth and you have to change, so why fear it? Think about it like this, two optics, right? One is you lose somebody that you love and they've been integral to your life. Well, once they're gone, you have to adapt, you have to change. No matter if you're scared or not, it just has to happen. The same thing happens if you have a baby, if you have a child, if something, whether it be an accident and God forbid the word accident, don't judge me on that, but sometimes accidental pregnancies happen and sometimes you have to make the decision, I want to keep the baby. Fantastic. Well, now you have to make these life-changing decisions. Part of that made me think of this movie that I was watching the other day because those things are more common than what we feel, but I didn't think about it again until I watched this movie, right? Sometimes you just have to get into it and then the changes that we fear are the ones because we hit a comfort zone. We hit a zone where we're relaxed, we're like, listen, instead of me making this change, instead of me making a big difference in what I need to make, let me stick to what I know, or like my kids in high school musicals, they stick to the status quo, right? But once we stick to what we know, what do we learn? What do we learn about us? What are we pushing? What boundaries are we pushing for us? What images are we setting for our kids and our children? Once again, I'm not saying go out and be evil Knievel or anything like that. I'm saying we got to live a little. As adults, as young adolescents, my kids are 17, 20, I got a 16 year old, I'm telling them to understand their lives and push some boundaries. It's okay that they could push some boundaries within reason, right? But I want them to learn. I want them to adapt and understand. I want them to feel free when they make a decision. I want them to stand by their decision, but I want them to understand every implication that says this may change your life in this direction. That's fine. Let's figure it out. Let's do it. But don't give up. And I think out of all of the statements that I've made, the two truths and the lie are strong sometimes. They will have you against the ropes, you know, pulling the full Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope against George Foreman, getting punched into the ropes and slinging back, and it's tough. It's tough. I totally understand. I totally get it because we've all been there. But just like the thriller Manila, life keeps going and you can win. Whatever your goal is, as long as you feel fulfilled and you embrace whatever you change, go for it. People are afraid to change jobs. People are afraid to change cars. Heck, people are afraid to change their daily routine. If they miss something, they feel like they're off. It's okay. It's okay. Live life. And if you're happy, be happy. Because once again, the reason why I'm here is because I'm a warrior. But my goal as a warrior is not to continue to fight. It's to bring peace to my household. So I want you guys to understand that that's where I am with it. And I urge you guys to just understand that there are two truths and a lie in our lifetime that we need to address sometimes. And if you need to reevaluate it, let's do it. Talk to me about it if you need to. If you know, you know. But other than that, do something. Do something. Make a difference. Get the pair of shoes that you wanted. Go ahead and try the new food that you wanted to do. Take that trip that you wanted to go on. Whatever it takes for you to make a little bit of change towards your happiness, let's focus on that and see if we can make that happen. Because once again, if you focus on the things that make you happy, if you focus on your mission to get peace, as long as you do it with love, it shall be dope. Till next time now.