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Finding Light Amidst Life's Challenges · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Eye Opener Society. My name is Gary,
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  and I am doing this quickie podcast for you.
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  It's been a while, I know that. I've had the pleasure of having the great Anne
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  Lund from Haunted and Waiting stepping up and putting in an episode, Arcane Oracle podcast.
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  Elaine, she also stepped up and put in a great podcast for us here at the Eye Opener Society.
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  And we're waiting on Sunset Child 2 as well, who may be stepping up and bringing
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  us an episode two. And we wait anxiously for that.
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  Sunset Child's out there podcast. So since I've been away, I've been through so much.
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  And that's why I wanted to bring this podcast to you.
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  This is one of the smaller ones, kind of midweek.
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  This way, I could get ready for the next episode where I'll have Jennifer Miller with me.
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  And her and I have been talking so much and we have so much on our mind.
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  And in February, hopefully if everything keeps going smooth,
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  we'll have the Eye Opener Society live talk show where you, the audience, can join in.
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  But right now, there's been a lot going on. So we moved, obviously.
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  Hannah and I were no longer living under the same roof.
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  My wife and I were living in a smaller place right
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  now when this video comes out you'll be able to see and it's
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  just a blank wall behind me there's a lot that has changed
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  uh for me emotionally that means a lot
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  because i was so adapt to the studio i was so adapt to having hannah with me
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  the whole time when things gotten bad with hannah um what she's going through
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  uh and we can't have her on the show for a while uh that too changed so much
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  it changed the dynamic of my entire life.
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  So it made things extremely difficult and the move was not easy financially.
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  It was not easy.
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  And then once we got moved in here and we were just about getting settled,
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  my wife was in a car accident.
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  Luckily, it wasn't that bad. Small injuries, cars can be replaced.
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  But I'm looking at things now from a new perspective because even my wife Who
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  usually has a great hold on life I know she also suffers a lot mentally,
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  And she's been telling me Despite of all the bad things that have been going on,
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  there's good to come. And it
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  really reflected back to me because I always used to think that way too.
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  And I still do, but because of the recent events and all the things that we
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  have been going through and suffering through, I know a lot of other people
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  are suffering as well and with much greater things.
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  So I know I'm not special when it comes to that, but there is something that
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  we all share in common as human beings.
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  Things do get better, and then they get worse, they get better.
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  That's just the way life is. It's how we deal with them.
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  Now, I've had so much happening in such a short period of time that it really
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  taken its toll on me emotionally.
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  It's just, there was just way too much. Normally, I'm good at handling things, and I can usually,
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  look past the bad, but since there was so much going on that was just so emotionally
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  involved, And it was so difficult for me to swallow and process all of that.
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  So I think everybody else that's going through this sort of thing,
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  you need to understand that it's going to be that way, but you need to really remain solid,
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  ground yourself, keep yourself motivated
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  and let yourself know that it's a temporary thing that's going on.
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  Everything will get better in time. It may take longer. It may take shorter. We don't know.
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  However, it's good to know that we as humans get out of these things.
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  There's sometimes things that we're going to live with for the rest of our lives,
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  but we need to adapt to that too as well.
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  So it's been tough and Eye Opener Society is still here.
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  I think a lot of other podcasters probably shut down shop and just say, listen, it's over.
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  I can't do it anymore. I can't keep talking about this stuff.
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  But I feel that I think it's more interesting to sit and talk about these things
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  that I'm dealing with in life to hopefully get other people to just listen and
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  maybe focus on something else,
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  give you a little bit of a hope, give you a little bit of inspiration.
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  That's what the Eye Opener Society is supposed to be.
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  And normally I have Hannah that does that. She's really good at that.
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  And I'm hoping to get her back on the show soon, very soon, actually, because some.
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  There's a lot I know she needs to talk about. And there's a lot of you out there
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  that I know definitely need to hear these things.
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  They're not going to be easy to swallow. It's not going to be easy to listen to.
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  However, when the time does come, she's going to be on this here show.
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  And I think that's going to be just absolutely amazing for all of us,
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  all of us here at Eye Opener Society and everybody in the audience.
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  In the meantime, I still I'm going to have Jennifer Miller with us until as
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  long as she wants to be here.
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  She's been so amazing and she's going to be doing a show. we're going to be
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  releasing an episode this coming Monday.
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  Today is the 21st. So this coming Monday, we'll have a regular episode.
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  First one in a while where her and I are going to be able to sit and just talk
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  and do a regular podcast.
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  And I'm excited for that because I've been wanting to talk. I've been wanting to get on the air.
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  I'm going to take it a little bit slow and easy because so much of the stuff
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  that I want to talk about, I probably cannot talk about just yet.
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  Emotionally painful, wise and all, that's fine. I can talk from my perspective.
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  I really would like the perspective of Hannah.
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  But again, once she's ready, then we'll do that.
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  But in the meantime, again, everybody that's out there, picture yourself on
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  that beach, picture yourself in the middle of nature, picture yourself on that
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  mountaintop, picture yourself on the clouds and the galaxy and the cosmos,
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  wherever it is, you think you will find peace.
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  Picture yourself there and just give yourself
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  that little bit of light at the
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  end of the tunnel to be able to focus on it
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  and tell yourself things are going to be okay
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  things are going to be good reach out when you do need help even i did you can
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  too it's not that bad if you need somebody to talk to there's plenty of people
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  out there professional services friends families trusted uh people uh Reach
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  out. That's all we ask. Just reach out.
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  I hope everybody is doing well and tune in come this Monday.
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  I'll be back with the regular podcast with Jennifer Miller, and then we'll be
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  back again in February for sure with more episodes plus the live radio show,
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  which I got so many good ideas and I can't wait to get that started.
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  And there's so much more to talk about for the future too of Eye Opener Society
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  that I'm very excited about.
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  So ladies and gentlemen, thank you again for tuning in, iOpenerSociety.podbean.com
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  or find us on any one of your favorite podcast platforms. We're all over the
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  Thank you again for tuning in.