Shaka Senghor
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It's like you can miss out on gratitude when it's right in front of your face.
You have so many things to be happy for.
This is why I also tell people, stay the fuck off social media now.
Jonathan Haidt wrote a book about what it's doing to young girls.
It's like they're comparing themselves constantly to everybody else.
And these girls are using filters and everybody's like, and then they're getting plastic surgery and changing this and changing that.
look at all my shit look at my bag look at my jewelry look at my car look at my this look at my that and it's just everyone's constantly in this state of comparison and no one is happy just to be alive and healthy in America in a wild time of change you know and
Nobody gets all highs.
A lot of leased cars out there.
There's joy in most aspects of life that people miss out on because they just can't appreciate it because they haven't been in prison.
You know what I'm saying?
There's a thing about that, man.
We should send everybody to the Bing, at least.
I don't advocate for that, but I think in your mind, I think what you were saying, that you were in prison before you were ever in prison, there's a lot of people that just don't understand how to think, and that's something we don't teach people at a young age, how to think.
And I think it's a gigantic factor in where you find yourself in life, and whether you find yourself living a happy, fulfilled life, or whether you find yourself
You know, one of those people that lives in quiet desperation, which is most people out there.