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Episode 310: Live Authentically · Positively 365: Inspire, Motivate, Support

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Positively three hundred and sixty five, a podcast
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  Speaker 1: by Joe wattis we wish to entertain, instruct, and motivate.
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  Speaker 1: If nothing else, Hopefully we can entertain and inspire you
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  Speaker 1: to live a more positive life three hundred and sixty five.
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  Speaker 2: Days a year. We hope you enjoy this message.
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  Speaker 3: A wife is frying eggs for her husband in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Suddenly the husband appears behind the wife's back and says, careful, careful,
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  Speaker 3: put more fat in the pan. You're frying too many
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  Speaker 3: at a time, too many. Flip them, flip them. Come on,
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  Speaker 3: put more fat in there. Oh, dear lord, you are
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  Speaker 3: going to make more space for the fat. Now. Look,
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  Speaker 3: they're sticking to the pan. Be careful, careful now, never
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  Speaker 3: listen to me when I cook. Never flip them. Flip
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  Speaker 3: them over already, hurry, are you crazy? Take it easy, easy, No,
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  Speaker 3: don't forget the salt. Put salt on them.
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  Speaker 2: Salt.
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  Speaker 3: The husband goes on about this until the wife stops him.
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  Speaker 3: The wife stares and even glares at her husband. What's
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  Speaker 3: wrong with you? You think I can't fry a few eggs.
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  Speaker 3: The husband looks at her and calmly says, I just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving.
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  Speaker 3: We live in a world of divisions political, social, economic,
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  Speaker 3: and spiritual, but there are places where those lines blur,
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  Speaker 3: where humanity reveals itself, not in the titles we hold
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  Speaker 3: or the opinions we voice, but in the new broad
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  Speaker 3: truth of a shared vulnerability. In today's episode, we step
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  Speaker 3: into one of those places, a place where masks fall away,
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  Speaker 3: rolls reverse, and something deeper arises to the surface. This
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  Speaker 3: is a conversation about what it means to be human
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  Speaker 3: and only what truly matters when everything else is tripped away.
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  Speaker 3: We will talk about this in this week's episode of
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  Speaker 3: Positively three sixty five, but first we have our trivia
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  Speaker 3: question of the day. Are you ready for it? Here
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  Speaker 3: it is which ancient philosopher famously said, the unexamined life
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  Speaker 3: is not worth living. We will have the answer when
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  Speaker 3: we come back.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know the answer to this week's trivia question?
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  Speaker 3: The question was which ancient philosopher famously said the unexamined
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  Speaker 3: life is not worth living? The answer Socrates. He spoke
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  Speaker 3: these words during his trial in Athens, where he was
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  Speaker 3: ultimately sentenced to death for corrupting the youth and impiety.
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  Speaker 3: Socrates believed that a meaningful life requires deep reflection, self inquiry,
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  Speaker 3: and the pursuit of truth and virtue. To him, living
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  Speaker 3: without questioning one's values, actions, and purpose was to miss
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  Speaker 3: the point of being human. His legacy became the foundation
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  Speaker 3: of Western philosophy, urging generations after him to seek wisdom
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  Speaker 3: over comfort. Now, you know, think about it. Most of
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  Speaker 3: the time we walk around playing roles the strong one,
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  Speaker 3: the busy one, the skeptic, the believer, the one who's
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  Speaker 3: got it all together, or the one who doesn't care.
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  Speaker 3: We armor ourselves in opinions, in pride, in image, but
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  Speaker 3: life has a way of cracking that open illness, loss, fear.
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  Speaker 3: These moments don't ask what you believe, how much money
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  Speaker 3: you have, or who you voted for. They only ask
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  Speaker 3: what kind of human are you really? In a hospital,
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  Speaker 3: status doesn't matter, a ceo and a janitor can share
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  Speaker 3: the same diagnosis. A child can become the teacher, reminding
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  Speaker 3: a hardened adult what resilience really looks like. A patient
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  Speaker 3: can become the healer simply by forgiving or by holding
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  Speaker 3: someone's hand at three am. We avoid these places until
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  Speaker 3: we have no choice, But maybe that's when we begin
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  Speaker 3: to understand something real that we are far are more
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  Speaker 3: alike than different, that underneath it all, we are all fragile,
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  Speaker 3: we are all hopeful, and we are all desperate to
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  Speaker 3: be seen, to be comforted, to be loved, and that
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  Speaker 3: brings us here to this moment, this reflection. It has
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  Speaker 3: recently been widely reported on social media that from his
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  Speaker 3: hospital bed, Pope Francis gifted us with these words. The
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  Speaker 3: walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches.
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  Speaker 3: They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports.
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  Speaker 3: It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being
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  Speaker 3: saved by a gay doctor, a privileged doctor saving the
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  Speaker 3: life of a beggar. In intensive care, you see a
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  Speaker 3: jew taking care of a racist, a police officer and
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  Speaker 3: a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care,
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  Speaker 3: a wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to
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  Speaker 3: receive the organ from a poor donor. In these moments,
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  Speaker 3: when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different
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  Speaker 3: worlds intersect according to a divine design, and in this
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  Speaker 3: communion of destinies, we realize that alone we are nothing
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  Speaker 3: the absolute truth of people. Most of the time only
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  Speaker 3: reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real
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  Speaker 3: threat of an irreversible loss. A hospital is a place
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  Speaker 3: where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as
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  Speaker 3: they truly are, in their purest essence. Life will pass quickly,
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  Speaker 3: so do not waste it fighting with people. Do not
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  Speaker 3: criticize your body too much. Do not complain excessively. Do
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  Speaker 3: not lose sleep over bills. Make sure to hug your
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  Speaker 3: loved ones. Do not worry too much about keeping the
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  Speaker 3: house spotless. Material goods must be earned by each person.
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  Speaker 3: Do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance. You are
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  Speaker 3: waiting far too much. Christmas Friday next year, when you
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  Speaker 3: have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect, listen,
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  Speaker 3: perfection does not exist. A human being cannot attain it
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  Speaker 3: because we are simply not made to be fulfilled. Here
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  Speaker 3: here we are given an opportunity to learn. So make
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  Speaker 3: the most most of this trial of life, and do
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  Speaker 3: it now. Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path
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  Speaker 3: and let go of the path that others have chosen
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  Speaker 3: for you. Respect, Do not comment, do not judge, do
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  Speaker 3: not interfere. Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more,
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  Speaker 3: intensely and leave the rest in the hands of the creator.
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