Transcript

Dear Z · Creatures of the Wind

0:00
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z.
0:02
SPEAKER_00: Who is your favorite younger?
0:06
SPEAKER_00: Who is your favorite closest to closest sist who's your favorite sister who's close to you?
0:16
SPEAKER_00: In age.
0:18
SPEAKER_00: Who's closest to you in age of your sisters?
0:22
SPEAKER_01: Mey.
0:24
SPEAKER_01: I'm so lucky to have you as my little sister.
0:27
SPEAKER_03: One, two, three, four.
0:30
SPEAKER_03: Actually?
0:31
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
0:32
SPEAKER_01: And to get to watch you grow up into the amazing, hilarious, and full of life 11-year-old you're becoming.
0:41
SPEAKER_00: Why don't you want to hear why you're beautiful?
0:44
SPEAKER_01: Because it makes me uncomfortable.
0:47
SPEAKER_01: I can see the pain that you're carrying.
0:50
SPEAKER_00: When you compare yourself to your friends at school, that's how you feel, kind of.
0:54
SPEAKER_03: I want the same hair as them.
1:04
SPEAKER_01: Here are a few things that I want to say.
1:10
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z.
1:11
SPEAKER_01: I know right now your older brother annoys you like crazy.
1:15
SPEAKER_01: I remember that from my childhood too.
1:17
unknown: Yeah, stop.
1:20
SPEAKER_01: But I would do anything to jump back into those days where we were both just kids and he wouldn't stop touching my elbow.
1:31
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z, he loves you more than you can ever know.
1:34
SPEAKER_03: I would flee.
1:35
SPEAKER_03: Why?
1:37
SPEAKER_03: Oh.
1:38
SPEAKER_03: I or two?
1:39
SPEAKER_03: I'll flee.
1:41
SPEAKER_03: One.
1:43
SPEAKER_01: Two?
1:43
SPEAKER_01: One.
1:44
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:45
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z, you will love and lose and love.
1:49
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z lose and lose.
1:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, the things you do matter.
1:52
SPEAKER_01: The things you think matter just as much.
1:55
SPEAKER_01: Tell yourself you're awesome because you are.
1:58
SPEAKER_01: Tell yourself all the kind of things you can possibly think of.
2:01
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z.
2:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm glad you're exploring who you like once eventually.
2:05
SPEAKER_01: But you will actually believe it.
2:07
SPEAKER_01: Never let a grimy fifth grader consume you and your thoughts more than your surroundings do.
2:14
SPEAKER_01: Life is grand.
2:16
SPEAKER_01: Be open to its beauty.
2:18
SPEAKER_02: And draw in a house.
2:24
SPEAKER_03: No, I already live in a house.
2:26
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z, just have fun.
2:28
SPEAKER_01: You are the silliest person I know.
2:30
SPEAKER_01: Embrace it, baby.
2:35
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z.
2:37
SPEAKER_01: Life is scary.
2:39
SPEAKER_01: I get it.
2:40
SPEAKER_01: You will always have fears.
2:42
SPEAKER_01: They will creep into your body and keep tickling your armpits when you least want to be tickled.
2:48
SPEAKER_01: While your fears these days may be centered around jellyfish and bug bites and getting your period one day.
2:53
SPEAKER_01: Your fears will likely change.
2:54
SPEAKER_01: The way it feels to fear something may never get lighter.
2:59
SPEAKER_01: Fears are inevitable.
3:03
SPEAKER_01: We all have them.
3:04
SPEAKER_01: Even me and Dad and Taylor Swift.
3:08
SPEAKER_01: But you can't let fear engulf you.
3:10
SPEAKER_01: You will have to and should do epic hard things, even when they scare the shit out of you.
3:23
SPEAKER_03: Three, two, one.
3:31
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
3:32
SPEAKER_01: Even after facing your fears a hundred million quatrillion times, the a hundred million quatrillion and first time will still offer its own beginning and anxieties.
3:41
SPEAKER_01: But in doing it anyways, you will realize that you can actually do it.
3:45
SPEAKER_01: And plus, you'll have more stories to tell.
3:48
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z, your body is not something to hide.
3:53
SPEAKER_01: It's not something to disrespect when the system makes you feel out of place.
3:57
SPEAKER_01: When the clothes don't fit anymore, and you look yourself in the mirror and don't like what you see, just know that I've been there too.
4:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm on the other end of it though.
4:08
SPEAKER_01: I didn't get there by losing 30 pounds because when I did, it didn't fix anything other than attracting superficial people and empty compliments.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: I got there by surrounding myself with people who love their bodies.
4:24
SPEAKER_01: So much so that they dance as if they are one.
4:29
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
4:30
SPEAKER_01: Dear Z.
4:31
SPEAKER_00: What do you think the most important thing is in your life right now?
4:38
SPEAKER_03: I just want to dance.
4:40
SPEAKER_00: Dancing.
4:41
SPEAKER_00: I love you.