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Episode 247 - Being Real Really Matters · Positively 365: Inspire, Motivate, Support

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  you for your help. Now enjoy this episode. Welcome to Positively three hundred
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  and sixty five, a podcast by Joe Wattis. We wish to entertain,
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  instruct and motivate. If nothing else, hopefully we can entertain and inspire you
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  to live a more positive play three n sixty five days a year. We
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  hope you enjoyed this message. A horse walks into a bar. The bartender
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  ass hello, do you want a beer? The horse responds, I think
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  not and promptly disappears. Now, admittedly, this joke only makes sense if
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  you are familiar with the French Enlightenment philosopher Renee Descartes, who famously said I
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  think, therefore I am. The horse thought not and therefore wasn't. But
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  if I had explained that first, I would have been putting descartes before the
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  horse. Just what does it mean to be real? In our world today
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  we confuse the real with the superficial or with the virtual. However, it
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  is always useful to remember the difference between what is real and what is not.
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  We will talk about this in this week's episode of Positively three sixty five.
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  But first we have our trivia question of the day. Are you ready
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  for it? Here it is which mountain range is the longest in the world.
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  We will have the answer when we come back here. Do you enjoy
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  learn my undying affection and have the satisfaction of knowing that you are doing something
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  to spread more positivity in today's negative world. Thank you for listening, and
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  thank you for your support, financially and otherwise. Do you know the answer
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  to this week's trivia question? The question was which mountain range is the longest
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  in the world. The answer the Andes. The Andes Mountain Range is five
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  thousand, five hundred thirty miles long, one hundred twenty four to four hundred
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  and thirty five miles wide, and has an average height of about thirteen thousand,
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  one hundred twenty three feet. The Andes Mountain Range extends from north to
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  south through seven South American countries Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,
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  Chile, and Argentina. Now you know, in a world where looks
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  often grab attention, picking what's real over what's just on the surface is like
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  choosing honesty over pretending. It means going beyond what themes seem like and finding
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  what's true and meaningful. Real connections and honest feelings are way more important than
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  just looking good. When we choose what's real, we go for the stuff
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  that lasts and matters. It's like saying no to fakeness and yes to what
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  really counts like true feelings and honest relationships. It's a good choice because it's
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  about what's true and genuine, not just what looks good. Marjorie Williams Bianco
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  in The Velveteen Rabbit gives us a beautiful description of what's real. Real isn't
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  how you are made, said the skin horse. It's a thing that happens
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  to you when a child loves you for a long long time, not just
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  to play with, but really loves you. Then you become real. Does
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  it hurt, asked the rabbit, sometimes, said the skin horse, for
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  he was always truthful. When you are real, you don't mind being hurt.
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  It doesn't happen all at once, like being wound up, he says
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  asked, Or is it a little bit by bit? It doesn't happen all
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  at once, said the skin horse. You become it takes a long time.
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  That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have
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  sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the
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  time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and
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  your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
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  But these things don't matter at all, because once you are real,
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  you can't be ugly accept to people who don't understand. Thank you for joining
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  us today. Please consider taking a moment to like, greate, subscribe,
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  hear from you, So until next time, stay positive today and every day
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  three hundred and sixty five days a year. Preceding has been a Canine Watta's
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  production, Sandy Rita Levi. Do you approve m