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The Role of Gratitude in Hope · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning, listeners. Thank you for listening to Lament
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  Speaker 1: of Hope podcast. And thank you for listening, watching whichever
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  Speaker 1: platform you're on. I don't think that everybody can do
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  Speaker 1: it because sadly, some people are forced to do what
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  Speaker 1: they don't like because they don't have another option. And
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  Speaker 1: they don't have an alternative. And they have to feed
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  Speaker 1: their family. They have to support themselves. So if you
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  Speaker 1: are in that situation, it's very difficult to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to say, yeah, do what you love and
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  Speaker 1: you'll never work a day in your life. But That's
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  Speaker 1: a luxury. It's a privilege that not everybody can afford.
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  Speaker 1: So I consider myself very lucky because I'm in a
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  Speaker 1: position where I can do that. But it also comes
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  Speaker 1: from my family, I have to say. So my dad,
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  Speaker 1: he started working. He was working on cruise ships and
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  Speaker 1: passenger ships. that would go back and forth, Europe and
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  Speaker 1: South America, Europe and North America mostly. So he spent
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  Speaker 1: a good chunk of his life over the ocean, over
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  Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean. And he started off his career on
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  Speaker 1: those cruise ships as a help in the kitchen, and
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  Speaker 1: he worked his way up all the way to pastry chef.
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  Speaker 1: From him, I get all the things that I know
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  Speaker 1: about cooking and baking. They come 90% from my father's
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  Speaker 1: notebooks and recipes and knowledge. When I was born, and
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  Speaker 1: then my sister was born, my parents decided that although
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  Speaker 1: my dad's job was paid very well, because effectively he
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  Speaker 1: was being paid On average, three times as much as
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  Speaker 1: any other person, because when you are on board of
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  Speaker 1: a ship and you're sailing for months on end, effectively,
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  Speaker 1: that counts as if the 24 hours, they count as
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  Speaker 1: three times an eight hour shift. So it was being
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  Speaker 1: paid full time, even when it was spending time in bed.
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  Speaker 1: So it was very well paid as a job. But
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  Speaker 1: my dad was absent from home for months. He used
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  Speaker 1: to tell me all the time that the first time
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  Speaker 1: he went on board the ship, he boarded it at
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  Speaker 1: 18 years old. He came back home when he was 20.
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  Speaker 1: So it was almost 24 months after he left. My
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  Speaker 1: grandmother hasn't seen him for two years. And when we
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  Speaker 1: were born, my parents decided actively that that wasn't life
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  Speaker 1: that they wanted to give to the kids. So my
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  Speaker 1: dad left the job and started a much, much lower
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  Speaker 1: profile activity as a caterer, as a chef for a
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  Speaker 1: primary school. So a completely different end of the spectrum
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  Speaker 1: there in terms of complexities and in terms of fanciness
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  Speaker 1: of of his recipes and dishes. But he was happy
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  Speaker 1: with that. He would be home every day at two o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: He would be paid a fraction of his own job,
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  Speaker 1: but he got to spend half of his day with
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  Speaker 1: his family. So they themselves prioritized the intangible value of
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  Speaker 1: family time and spending time together.