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Interesting
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By Mona Lease
Hi, all!!! The following is from a video I was sent. I found it very
interesting. It holds a point or two about which I never thought. See
what you think.
"This is your first challenge. I'm giving you 30 seconds. I want you to
turn to someone sitting near you, next to you, look them in the eye,
and say, "When I look at you, I see blank." 30 seconds, GO! (A woman
from the audience, that is onstage says) "Mr. Flood, when I look
at you I see a very smart man." "Okay." Mr. Flood responds.
Then Mr. Flood says, "Alexis (the woman from the audience), when I look
at you, I see me." Mr. Flood asks, "Where am I looking?" I'm
looking in their eyes, deeper than that. "Where was I looking?" asks
Mr. Flood.
"Their brain"...from the audience. "Their heart."...from the audience.
Mr. Flood says, "We're getting closer." "Their
soul."...says the audience. Mr. Flood says, "Their soul. We're getting
really close now. Where is their soul? Inside!"
"This is your first challenge for today, stop looking at people on the
outside and say this out loud. "Look on the inside." And here's
where you use this: it's really hard to look at someone who doesn't
look like you and see yourself in them."
"My children don't look like me, they look like their Mom, Asian, they
look Filipino, they have black hair and brown eyes and Asian skin,
they're tan and they just don't look like me."
"My son Justin, he likes Anime, and Justin likes wrestling, WWE. What
you need to know about Justin though, is that he has autism and he is
awesome."
"He's kind, he's compassionate, he's caring, but, he doesn't understand
where he fits in socially. He can't look people in the eye, he doesn't
know how to interject himself into a conversation, he doesn't know
where he fits in."
"When Justin was in middle school, he used to come home from school
everyday and I would ask him, "Hey Buddy, where'd you eat lunch today?"
And he would say, "Daddy, I ate alone." He still does now some
days in high school."
"Justin looks like all of you guys (audience is mostly kids). Not
here, here (points to his head and his heart). And there's a difference
between lonely and being alone."
"No one here is alone, we're all in the physical proximity of other
people. But there are people who are sitting here who are lonely.
Lonely is a feeling, lonely is toxic, lonely is dangerous. It leads you
to do things that you normally wouldn't do. And a lot of times,
unhealthy things."
"About 5 years ago, Justin learns how to skate, and he gets invited to
play, he wants to play in a rec league team with typical kids, with
regular developing kids."
"The last game of the season, we're losing. It was 8-3, it was about
three minutes to go and I'm in the bleachers. There was a face-off and
Kyle takes the puck and he passes it to Justin and Justin skates in,
and he takes a soft shot and it goes off the goalie's pad and he gets
the rebound, and he stuffs it in the goal, and the kids are going
crazy."
"Needless to say, I'm crying, I'm melting the ice with my tears, and so
I went over to the opposing team's bench, and I reached out my hand to
their coach because I knew what he had done, and I said, "Thank you."
"And he looked right at me and he said, "Don't thank me, thank the
boys." They were 10 and 11 years old, and all they did was
let a kid score a goal."
"But here's the takeaway: They had no idea how they would affect that
kid's Father that day. They had no idea that that kid's Father would go
out and tell that story to thousands of kids. And don't think you're
too young to hear that message and so I say that to you (audience is
mostly kids)."
"Your life is not about you, your life is about all the people around
you. Your life is about all the people you can touch, all the
people you can impact, all the people you can influence, all the
people you love, and all the people who love you."
"That's how you source your life. Live your life like that and watch
your life change. It's amazing what happens." - David Flood...This Will
Change How You See People Forever
Remember the kiddies and our service people. Take good care of the
furry and feathered ones out there. Be safe and healthy. See ya next
time. Ever Toodles!!! MONA
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