everything I hated I now love
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Why did I hate the beach at first and what changed my mind?
I used to really hate coming to the beach, man. I hated this. This was like my worst nightmare was the idea of me and my grandma having to spend an entire day at the beach. Do you know how much FIFA as a kid that was for me? Like a six hour beach day. That was a whole career mode. A to Z. I could promote a team from the bottom division to the Premier League and buy Ronaldo or something. Anyways. The beach used to be my arch nemesis, and I hated it so much that I would find ways to escape being at the beach, which in my life became walking. As a kid, I would take these long walks on the stretch of the coastline. Suddenly, when I would go on these walks, I had so much space to imagine myself in different scenarios, to imagine myself doing different things.
It almost like gave me this weird space to be in my own dreamland. And then all of a sudden, like, I didn't hate the beach as much. I still hated it. Don't get me wrong. I still didn't like going there. But it started to become a lot more bearable.
How did long walks on the coastline help me imagine new possibilities?
And the idea of sitting with my grandmother on the beach is something that I would give up anything for. Especially now that she hasn't been alive for probably close to a year. It's kind of funny. That in our lives, the things that we almost reject the most immediately end up being things that we are the most proud of, we love the most sometimes, and teach us. the most about ourselves. Every one of my best friends, people I look up to, people I respect in my life, I once had this fight or flight feeling about. I once was like, who the heck is this guy? I remember very vividly when I met my best friend Dylan When he was in his dorm room in college, I was almost like... I heard that he was also into making videos and doing YouTube stuff.
And it was like this... I felt threatened almost. And I think there's a reason that this happens. I think internally... It's almost like when something is very, very new to us and it challenges us in a way that we're not even prepared for yet, we kind of have this moment of like, uh-oh. Because it flips everything that you know on its head. And it could be a really, really scary thing to go from like knowing your life in one way and then having it go into a complete other. Another thing, another reason I've kind of fallen in love with the beach. How you doing, man?
What did I learn about turning disliked people into best friends?
Argentina, sí. Adiós. Um, uh, that's right there. Another reason I love the beach so much was because, um, you got to meet people from all over the world. That was always really, really fun. But it also forced me to shut up. I had this habit as a kid of always talking to myself and always creating these like stories of, of, you know, what I was doing. It was usually cause I was bored and I was an only child. So that was our, that was my entertainment. And, um, Funny thing is, when I would go to the beach, I would have to... Well, I would run out of energy. I mean, when I was walking down the coastline, I would just get to a point where I'd be like, all right, I'm going to shut up and just watch the waves.
And that's really when you kind of get it out of your system. You can kind of open up almost like a different flow state, a different mode, beast mode. Nah. You open up this... this very pure subconscious, like all of this stuff in your subconscious psyche kind of just begins to float into your front and center stage.
Why does confronting something new feel scary and how can it lead to growth?
And you kind of look at it and you're like, Oh, I did not know that I, I had feelings for this person. I didn't know that, uh, I wasn't, I wasn't happy with the fact that They made fun of me in this little moment. All of these tiny little film clippings of life begin to play over and over again. And that, I think, was, in a broader context, me realizing how to unpack stuff, which I think is a skill. And it is a skill that is now rarely used. A lot of people... I believe, don't even have the time, don't give themselves the mental time to unpack, to sit in silence because it's not deemed as productive. That's a big one. People don't think it's productive to just sit and like, bro, you gotta, if you're not doing this, you gotta do something else.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did I hate the beach at first and what changed my mind?
0:00–1:20
2
How did long walks on the coastline help me imagine new possibilities?
1:20–3:14
3
What did I learn about turning disliked people into best friends?
3:14–4:33
4
Why does confronting something new feel scary and how can it lead to growth?
4:33–6:07
5
How does the beach create a space for meeting diverse people and self‑reflection?
6:07–7:31
6
What is the importance of ‘unpacking’ emotions and how can I do it without overwhelm?
7:31–9:08
7
Why is dedicated solo time essential for mental health and creativity?
9:08–11:03
8
How can I use walking or other simple habits to reset overthinking?
11:03–12:27