WATCH THIS WHEN YOU WANT TO GIVE UP | Life Changing Speech by Viola Davis

Watch This When You Want To Give Up - Viola Davis speaks her life.

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Regret - Whitesand

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Transcript:
My testimony is one of
poverty.
You know, you heard I grew up in
Central Falls, Rhode Island.
And let me tell you something about poverty:
You’re invisible.
Nobody sees the poor.
You have access to nothing.
You’re no one’s demographic.
You know what my “a-ha” moment was?
I had a memory when I was 9 years old,
and I remember my parents fighting in the
middle of the night.
It was so bad that I started screaming at
the top of my lungs, and I couldn’t stop.
My older sister Dianne told me to go in the
house or people would hear me.
So I ran in the house,
I ran to the bathroom, screaming still, just
couldn’t stop.
And got down on my knees, and closed my eyes,
I put my hands together and said, “GOD!
If you exist, if you love me, you’ll take
me away from this life!
Now I’m going to count to 10 and when I
open my eyes, I want to be gone!
You hear me?!”
And I put my hands together
and I was really believing it.
“One!”
And then I got to eight.
“Nine!
10!”
And I opened my eyes … and I was still there.
So when I gained vision,
and strength,
and forgiveness,
I could remember
what it means to be a child who was hungry.
I could remember what it means to be in trauma.
I could remember poverty, alcoholism.
I could remember what it means to be a child
who dreams and sees
no physical manifestation of it.
I could remember because I lived it!
I was there!
And that has been my biggest gift in serving.
You can only understand people
if you feel them in yourself.
History is not the past.
It is the present.
We carry history with us.
We are our history.
In other words:
You’re a product of your environment.
Now that term is usually relegated to people
from low-income, crime-infested areas but why?
We all are a product of our environment.
Your existence
is an amalgamation of every triumph,
every hard-won battle,
every woman who had an idea and massaged it,
and had the courage to use it to change the world.
Every person who survived slavery,
Jim Crow and the black codes,
to the Trail of Tears, wars,
and passed their dreams on to you—
of love,
of hate.
Yup,
you are also the product of the other:
Of silence, of apathy,
a parent, grandparent, ancestor
who suppressed dreams and ideas,
who died with lost potential
and horrific memories of sexual assault,
mental illness,
who didn’t feel good enough,
or pretty enough
or ENOUGH.
Even your anxiety
is part of your history
and yet here you are.
Privileged,
blessed
to do what?
There are two roads
that I see that people usually take:
The choice to think that your path is all about you
and your success,
how high you can climb in your career and your status.
Or, the so-called “save the world” approach,
where you have a vision for the world and,
by God, you will change it because you’re different.
The first road requires you to mistake your presence for the event,
to be in complete denial;
and the second requires you only to deny the really bad stuff.
It requires you to forget racism,
not see colour, intersectionality, poverty
any evidence in my family of mental
illness, of violence.
Forget anything in me
that will get in the way.
Forget my fear, my pain.
BOTH dead end.
Both result in well-intentioned, very bright
enthusiastic people doing NOTHING.
How about this as a novel idea: How about
owning it?
Owning ALL of it—the good and the bad.
Own every heroic deed, great idea.
Own all of your memories and experiences,
even if they were traumatic.
Own it!
Own IT!
The world is broken because we’re broken.
There are too many of us who want to forget.
Who said that all of who you are has to be good?
All of who you are is who you are.
It hurts, you rage, battle it out, ask, “Why?”
Then you forgive, reconcile and use your heart,
your courage and vision to fix, to heal
and then, ultimately, to connect, to empathise.
And that empathy creates a passion for people
and it all is the fuel of the warrior,
a brave, experienced soldier or fighter.
Because there is a cap to success.
Now everybody tells you that’s what you got to hit,
that’s the best of the best that you can have in life.
And then you hit it
and then comes disillusionment,
exhaustion, isolation, the imposter syndrome
and a loss of passion.
Because no one talks about the real final
cap,
the real ceiling
and that’s significance.
That living life
for something bigger than yourself
is a hero’s journey.
That answer to your call, to adventure and
journeying forth with mentors and allies,
and facing your greatest fears, where you
either die or your life as you know it will
never be the same.
And then you seize the sword, the insight,
the treasure.
The hero at that stage must put all celebrations
aside to prepare for the final battle.

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