Ocean Vuong
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And all of a sudden you remove from this.
And when you come back,
because it's all cycle, you come back to yourself and you say, gosh, I don't know how to pick up that ball anymore.
I see it.
I see self-hatred.
I see envy.
I see bitterness.
I see self-loathing.
It's all there, but I can't really pick it up.
Before it was stuck.
It was glued to my palms.
But for some reason, moving outward has cleansed.
And now I can't pick it up if I wanted to.
You have to make a count.
What does it mean to live and owe something to the people you love, your obligation to them, to your community, and to live with that kind of care?
Because the other side of that is YOLO.
You know, you only live once, enjoy it, mash it all.
And look where it's gotten us.
Ecological despair, corporate greed, thundering our environment, our planet just for profit.
That's a lot of YOLO.