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Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to the Moments Podcast. I'm going to say in advance, this might be a short episode. It's like 11 p.m. on a Wednesday night, and I have a lot of energy. I just got back from the gym, well, and dinner. I got back. I finished my workout a long time ago. Not that that matters, but there's a lot of things on my mind, and I had no idea what I wanted to record about this week or what I wanted to talk about this week. And on the weeks like that, I get kind of frustrated with myself because I'm not
I'm like, well, why don't I have anything to talk about? There's just nothing I'm super knowledgeable on in this moment or nothing heavy on my mind. And honestly, that's either for me, like, I don't know if this is just making no sense, but...
It's a really good thing for me or a bad thing for me. If I can't think of anything to talk about, it's either because one, there's like way too much on my plate and I'm really stressed, which I for a second thought it was that, or it's because life is just flowing and life is simple and there's nothing that's like weighing me down or I'm thinking about a lot. Does that make any sense? Like when life is really, really, really good, I can't think of anything to talk about. You know, there's nothing bothering me. There's nothing frustrating me. And I'll do an episode on like
Being grateful and working on your best self and like all that but I've done a bunch of episodes on that lately so what I've really been thinking about this whole week is I've been deep diving like face first into the ocean diving into freaking what's wrong with our society like there's so many things I've been thinking about and before I even get to talking about anything I want to preface that I
I am not a professional, okay? When I read articles and when I like study all these things going on or I give you my opinions or my thoughts or my perceptions, like I want you to know that they are my personal opinions and not everybody has to agree with them, obviously. And they're not, you know, against anybody. Like I...
I'm just super aware that we all have different opinions and different views and I kind of want to talk about what's been on my mind and the ways that society is like messed up right now or different ways that it is. So we're going to dive into those things for just a little bit. It's going to be a short episode. We're just going to chit chat. I guess I could give you some life updates.
Because I kind of think it's been a while since we've done any of those. And also, I'm recording another episode with my therapist on Saturday. And we're going to talk all about body image and body dysmorphia and eating disorders. So I'll put a trigger warning on that episode. We'll probably deep dive into a bunch of different things. But I think it's going to be a very valuable episode for me and for you and for everyone else our age, anyone who's listening. We're all kind of struggling with our body image because of society, which we'll get into today. But...
Just be on the lookout for that episode. I think it's gonna be a really good one. That's an update I also this is just fun and I want to tell you about it because you guys are my best freakin friends I've been going on a third date. Isn't that crazy? Just knowing me and you guys obviously know me better than I know myself since we talked for 40 minutes every single week But I have I don't even want to say their commitment issues. It's not even that I'm afraid to commit I'm afraid to like start like I'm afraid to get to know people and let people really get to know me which is crazy considering
You know, I overshare on the internet 24-7 and I talk about my deepest, darkest secrets and like vulnerable thoughts online. It's different when it comes to being one-on-one with a person. So I'm feeling super proud of myself. I don't know. And I just want to keep you guys updated. I'm not going to tell you who or what we've been doing. I guess I'll tell you. Our first date, we went mini golfing and he took me to dinner and it was super cute. This is honestly...
Just I'll touch on it and eventually I'll do a whole episode on it. Have high standards, okay? Like the floor, the bar does not have to be on the ground. We can lift it back up a little bit. Like we are settling for...
Basically nothing and you deserve to know your worth and your value and you deserve to be taken care of and anyways besides the point I'm just saying that because I'm reminding myself of that through this and Honestly, I feel like I'm getting treated right and I like it and it's fun and it's exciting and it's new but just for shits and gigs I'll tell you we went mini golfing and went to dinner and then we walked on the beach and then the second date he took me to the zoo and
Which is such a green flag because I love the zoo and I texted in my family group chat a week before and said, guys, we need to go to the freaking zoo soon because my family used to go to the zoo all the time and it was such a childhood memory. Besides the point, what am I saying? I'm rambling. I took pre-workout before my workout. I have no idea what I'm about to say in this episode. Anyways, different ways that society is messed up. First thing on my mind, the first thing that has been so heavy on my mind and this is going to be a hot take, right?
I think that way too many people are getting plastic surgery and it actually breaks my heart to see people that I know and love and follow like alter their bodies in such crazy ways. And again, before I even dive more into that, this has absolutely nothing to do with the people who are getting the surgeries. Okay. This is something that the world has taught us we need to do to feel beautiful and therefore people who can afford it and have the means to do so and have a large following where people are perceiving them and perceiving their bodies and their
their every move I understand why people do it I have battled in my head so many different times to get a boob job to get a chin you know that chin implant where they suck the fat out where I don't have a double chin like I have gone through all of these different thoughts I'm like oh I could treat myself for Christmas or for whatever and spend whatever amount of money just to change the way that people look at me and I've had to like really push through that but I
I also, I've gotten a lip flip. A lip flip is basically just, and I love it. It is, they put filler, like a tiny, I did less than the smallest amount possible. It's a tiny syringe of, I think it's Botox, above your lip, and then it just makes your lip still there when you smile. And I love it, and I'm really, really happy with it, and I honestly didn't really do it to...
Please anyone else and I know that nobody else is altering that no one else says they're altering their body for other people But i'm just like going to be open and honest about that I also got botox in my armpits because I sweat like a crazy person. I have hyperhidrosis So I got a tiny bit of botox in my armpits to help stop the sweating It didn't even really work like I might have to get more if I want to try that again But those are the two things i've done to my body um that I just want you guys to know before I even talk more about this, but
Sorry, I keep saying but. I don't know why that's my word of the day. But there it is again. Jeez. Anyways, I have been just scrolling through my For You page and I don't know if it's because I've been talking about it. I've had a lot of these conversations with my mom and social media is a really hard thing.
am not the biggest fan of it. I really am not, which is crazy for me to say because it is my job and I don't want to sound like a hypocrite. I know that I might and I'm going to, but this is literally what's just going on in my mind and I want this podcast and everything that I do online to be so real and raw and authentic and if the things I say are a little bit hypocritical, then that's just what we're going to have to do right now. But
Social media has been tough for me lately because there's so many parts of me that want to delete it. We are being fed so much information constantly. Like I can scroll on TikTok for 10 minutes and learn how to change a flat tire. I can learn how to make gluten-free banana bread. I can see someone doing a TikTok dance. I can...
You guys get the point. There's videos of cats, dogs, like everything. Travel. Everything is at my fingertips. And I think that that's a beautiful thing and it can be used for a lot of good. But it can also be so harmful to our minds. And that's why I'm going to tell you, I want you to spend less time on social media. Weird for me to say, considering, you know, my job is for people to watch my social media. And I hate everything about that, but I also love it because...
I don't know. I like to share. I love to document. Like I'm going to keep posting on social media and I'm never going to delete it. But I have tried to limit myself because here's how these two things are going to tie together.
I will sit on social media and I will scroll, right? And I'll see these girls get a boob job or liposuction or fat removed from their jawline or a nose job or whatever it may be. There are so many options now to alter your body in any way that you want to fit a beauty standard so perfectly. And again, I wanted a boob job back when I was in high school. And the reason that I don't want it now is because I think...
One, there's so many different influencers now. Like I don't want to say that social media is oversaturated because everyone has a purpose and has something that I think that they should share with the world. But so many people are followed heavily by younger girls. And I don't know how old you are listening to this. If you're 13, 14, 15, I guess I'm kind of talking to you on this. Actually, no. Everyone. Anyone. We are all so impressionable. But at a younger age...
If I was 13 or 14, let's take 13 to be exact in eighth grade. If I would have seen so many people getting all of these surgeries, it's all I would think about likely because at 13, I believed everything the world taught me. You know, like if the world told me I needed to be as thin as a stick, I would do everything in my power to look like that. Like I was just very impressionable.
And I think the older that I get, and I don't know if I touched on this in last week's episode, but it's just like, I think I've noticed growth in my mindset because now, you know, I'll look at the beauty standard and I'll see people doing all these things. And I'll just kind of tell myself, like, I don't need to change who I am because being who I am is my superpower. But there are many different points in my life. And I'm probably going to come to this point again, because, you know, life is a wave. We're
I've been at a point where I'm just so impressionable and I will hate myself if someone has something that I don't have and I hope that makes sense. I hope everything I'm saying makes sense. The ADHD is definitely ADHD-ing today, but all of these things kind of tie together and I told you I'm just going to be real and raw and everything that's going through my mind is getting fed to your mind right now, so take it with a grain of salt, but
Point here, okay? Point here is if you are someone who is watching all these influencers get all these surgeries and spend all this money and completely change their body, I want you to know that you don't have to feel the need to do so as well. It is not the influencer or whoever it is, is responsibility to, you know, act a certain way because they have people following them, if that makes sense. Like if some influencer has wanted a boob job since she was 10 years old and now she has...
3 million followers and she gets that boob job it's not her responsibility not to right like she doesn't maybe doesn't recognize that there's so many people looking up to her but the point here is i just want you to know that you don't need to change a thing okay you don't need to have big boobs and a small waist to be beautiful you don't need to perfectly mold to society's beauty standard and i've touched on this 10 million thousand times but i want you to recognize that you are
Such a special unique set of DNA that comes from years and years and years of ancestors, right? Like you have great great great great grandparents out there and you get to carry their traits and that is something that you should be proud of and I just got um,
I got my family for Christmas, 23 and me, just because I'm so curious about my heritage and my DNA. And I just, I love that stuff. I want to know what different countries I come from and what cultures I can start to study a little bit more because I really only know that I'm Colombian, Argentinian, and white. Like those are the only ones I knew. But my mom and brother did theirs. I haven't done mine yet. I really, really need to. And it turns out I'm also Irish and I'm German and my brother's 16% Native American. So I'm so curious to see what I get. But...
Even just seeing that on that small scale made me understand that I am unique and every single detail about me is exactly the way that it's supposed to be. And it's not in a cocky, I'm so confident way. Like I'm still insecure as hell. Trust me. I have days where I don't even want to look in the mirror. But if I can remind myself that I am this one of a kind person, it definitely makes me feel better. And it definitely shifts me away from wanting to
make something the same as everyone else has. Like let's take a boob job for example. Whatever I got I got my boobs. They're like small they're little itty-bitties. I'm in the itty-bitty committee for sure but if I were to change these and take them away and add to them like I would be ruining that cool uniqueness about myself. Does that make any sense? I I
I'm sorry to keep freaking rambling about it, but it's been breaking my heart. It has been breaking my heart to see so many people change the way that they are, change their beautiful, already perfect selves. Like that's another thing. The people I'm seeing do all of these surgeries are people I already view as beautiful.
And never did it ever go through my head. I'm like, oh, that person should get a boob job. They have small boobs. Like never in my mind does that even cross my mind. Like I think that I see the beauty in people. And I think that we all do. Anyone who is a healthy person is going to see everyone's perfections before their imperfections. And I think that a person who is still healing,
Those are the only people who are going to notice other people's flaws and point them out. And that's another thing to take note of. If anyone else ever gives you a hard time about something about yourself, you just have to remind yourself, okay, that you are beautiful. And the person who has something to say about it is the one who needs to heal. And that's a form of projection. And we've gone over that. Let's move on to the next topic. I just wanted to really...
Touch on that for a second. And before I started recording this, there were so many more thoughts and like things that I wanted to share with you about it that are just leaving my mind right now. But if you are someone who's considering changing anything, please don't. Okay, know that you're beautiful. And if it's something that's really, really weighing heavy on you, there's no one to stop you. You do only have one time on this earth and
You have your avatar and you can do whatever you want with it. Like no one's gonna stop you I'm, not giving people a hard time for changing anything I'm, just like letting you know that you don't need to feel bad if it's not something you can do And it honestly shouldn't be something that you want to do, you know, I hope i'm making sense I'm, so sorry if i'm not i'm staring at a freaking kickball in my living room right now and i'm just talking So that's what we have going on another thing that I
started doing my research on and totally want to do a study on is society not even society like American food and processed food I have been deep diving into how bad some of the stuff we put into our bodies is for us like I was studying like red 40 and how that is really really bad for people to with ADHD to have and it makes the ADHD a little bit stronger at times which was
fascinating for me because I don't know. I love Skittles. I love red Gatorade. Like all those things have junk in it that I don't need. And obviously I'm not going to sit here and say, because I can't, that you should have this vegan raw food, only fruits and vegetables and like free range chicken meat. No, I'm not going to tell you that, but I am going to say we should all be a little bit more aware of what we're putting into our bodies because we're
Not even does it affect you physically I'm talking brain health wise like there are certain things that we should be giving our bodies like healthy fats and proteins and carbohydrates and complex carbs Those are the same thing, but we should be giving our body that because that's what's gonna fuel our mind That's what's gonna give us energy. That's what's gonna get us through our days versus freaking processed junk food You know like processed junk is going to mess with your head. It's going to mess with your mental health and also like
I've just really been fascinated by studying different foods and what they do for each part of the body and part of the mind. And I think that I'm going to take a nutrition class and do a full episode just on how food affects our body and what different things affect us. Because I've learned, and I'll probably touch on this on next week's episode because it's something very new for me and I'm enjoying it. I have built a much healthier relationship with food when I know that
what is doing what for my body right like I'm not just gonna eat nothing all day and then have a bunch of candy and junk food for dinner and be like oh I had less calories and
than if I were to eat you know three full meals in a day what I'm gonna do instead is I'm going to have three eggs for breakfast with avocado with a protein shake and a fruit smoothie and I'm gonna drink my greens and for lunch I'm gonna make a nice sandwich I'm gonna have deli meat and cheese and I'm going to get everything that my body needs right and then I'm gonna snack on something that's good for me right maybe it's like
I don't know, an apple with peanut butter. These are just the first things that are coming to my mind. I've also been eating a lot of this stuff lately, so maybe that's why. And then for dinner, I don't know, let's do a kale salad with steak and with tomatoes and potatoes and broccoli. Let's give myself all of those whole foods and fruits and veggies that I deserve because that's what's going to make me feel energized and that's what's going to make me feel strong. And those foods aren't going to make me feel fluffy and bloated and gross because I'm
The processed shit that we eat, excuse my language, will. That's what doesn't make you feel good. Anyways, I guess that's not really a problem with society. But yeah, American culture just shoves junk food in our faces like it's all that there is. And I was also watching this TikTok. It was fascinating to me. It was this guy who was going through the grocery store. These are moments I love TikTok because I learn new facts.
And he was explaining, I don't know if this is common sense, it wasn't to me, that all of like, say, Little Debbie snacks, we're talking Swiss rolls, oatmeal cream pies, they're all going to be on the bottom shelf, right where a toddler, where a younger kid's eye level is going to go. And what's going to be on top is all the natural fruit snacks and gummies, like the stuff that we should be giving kids from a young age, because I think that all the processed sugars and junks
are a reason that humans are so low energy and struggling with mental health. And you can call me crazy. I'm not some health freak. I'm really not crunchy at all. Like in that sense, I eat junk. I love junk. I will always say eat for the soul and treat yourself in moderation. Like you know that. It's fascinating to learn. And I think that from a young age, we should be making sure that kids are having whole foods and fruits and veggies. And I don't know.
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And before I get into it again, I want to tell you I've read a few articles. Yes, they've been like .edu.gov. All of you guys know from high school, those were the reliable sources. I've read articles from reliable sources, but let's talk about this thing called the Willow Project. It's basically...
and again, don't come for me if I mess this up a little bit, an $8 billion project that Biden wants to approve. And I am a liberal, okay? I voted for Biden. And I will say that. I have no problem if you didn't. Like, I'm not getting political here. I'm just saying. I voted for this guy. And I'm fucking... Oh my god, my language. I'm so sorry. I'm so upset with him right now because this is not cool. This is not cool at all. It's an $8 billion project to...
basically sell the northern part of Alaska to oil drilling. And what this is going to do is completely destroy all of the wildlife and the ecosystem that we have in Alaska. And the Arctic is already decaying like four times faster than the rest of the world because of climate change. And going through with a project like this is going to
essentially make climate change irreversible. We are going to cause so many issues and I want to say the number is like 287 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in the air over the next 30 years. I know it's a really big number. I think it's something like that. You can fact check me on that, but something like that. And it's just, we're just slowly destroying the earth. Like we are at a point in a time and an age where
We are destroying the earth and it is giving me a crisis constantly. I'm scared to have kids in a world like this, in a world where kids are consumed by social media from such a young age. People are having screen time longer than ever. Cars are self-driving. Everything's a mess. And it's a scary thought.
Like when I really let myself sit down and think about what's going on in the world, it's scary because I don't see it getting better and I don't know how we can make a change and start moving things in a better direction. We are a generation that is so powerful. We are a generation that can change things. We just have to learn how to take action and taking action doesn't involve being part of the problem.
And that's where the issue is because we all are part of the problem. I don't know. It's such a crisis and I don't know what to do about it. And if you want to share with me any advice or DM me like different projects we can do or different ways we can just make people aware that the world is falling apart slowly but surely, um,
If we can if we could just do that, that would be really cool. And I think that even if some of the things I'm saying aren't making any sense right now, even if it's making you think just a little bit deeper and a little bit more about what's going on in the world, then I feel like I've done my job. I'm just feeling called to talk about it and to touch on it. And it's been so heavy in my heart because we're all messed up. We are all being consumed by the media and in so many different ways.
I don't know. You guys get what I'm saying, right? Like the, I hope that we all can agree that the world is falling apart and I'm scared to have kids and I'm scared for my kids to have kids and I don't know, like I really, another crisis on my mind is that obviously this isn't something I need to think about right now because I'm 22 and I'm single and I barely can go on a first date, but I just don't want to have kids. I think that, this is another thing, so sorry, Miss Ramble Girl, but
I think that when I do get to a point where I'm ready to have kids, I kind of want to adopt. The adoption centers are overpopulated and the foster care systems are also really messed up and kids are getting abused in them. And there is such an overpopulation of kids just being born with nowhere to go and with no family life that I want to adopt and like change a kid's life. And I don't know, help that system. But then it's like, yeah, I also want to have a little mini me running around. But I feel like I'm at a point where I think it's kind of selfish to have a kid in a world like this.
Now I'm just talking nonsense. And I don't really know what I'm saying anymore. So maybe we'll just cut it here. But I don't know. I hope that this week's episode was able to just make you think a little bit more and maybe start questioning all of the things that we do that are like second nature for us, for us to open our phone and put into our maps how to get somewhere. Like maybe we can put the phone down, look around, become a little bit more directionally aware. And I say this because this is a personal attack on myself. I can be so close to home.
If I don't know which way to turn, I'll just put it in my maps. Instead of look around, figure it out, be a big girl, and learn where the heck I'm going. Like, learn about where I live. And, like, another thing is when you're walking around in public, this was a New Year's resolution of mine that I haven't stuck to too much. So I'm reminding myself again. It's a new month, right? It's a fresh start. We can, well, I guess by the time this comes out, I'm recording this on March 1st. But even when this comes out, it'll be pretty much a new month. Like,
Go back to your new year's resolutions. If you've lost them, let this be a reminder to get back to it. Go back to your drinking your water and getting your daily movement and waking up early. Just, it's not too late. Okay. You don't have to fail at your new year's resolutions. Just start them a little bit late. You know the drill. Um,
No, but a huge one for me was whenever I'm walking in public, I'm not going to go on my phone. A lot of times I get anxious. I get really bad social anxiety, even if I'm just in a restaurant. Instead of looking around and like making eye contact with people, I get too scared to do that, that I'll just sit on my phone and I'll scroll on Instagram and I'll scroll on TikTok and I'll disappear into my own little world online.
And I don't want to do that so much anymore. And again, this is all really weird things for, I think, someone who does social media as a full-time job to be talking about because I'm telling you to consume less of it and consume less of my content and all my friends' content. But seriously, we need to go learn to be humans again. And I think that that's a huge reason I hosted the Pause for a Moment event because I missed real people. I missed talking. And I think I touched on this before too.
I miss human connection and I want to reinvent that and get back to a point where we can do that. And the thing is we don't even realize that it's a problem because it's so normalized for us. And I hope I don't sound like this crazy controversial freak right now. I'm not trying to be that. I'm just trying to become aware of myself. And everything that I do for myself, I'm going to talk to you guys about too. And if it's a stupid idea, it's a stupid idea. But
This is honest and this is just things going through my mind. And I'm going to shut up now because I should probably take a shower and go to bed and try again tomorrow. That's another thing. Just know this is something I've been thinking about.
Because the past couple weeks have been really good, but also mentally just draining. I've been super tired for no reason and just like haven't had the energy or the motivation to make things happen. And I've been getting in my head again where I'm saying, while I don't have this motivation, I'm like, you're failing at this. You're not doing enough here. You're not doing enough there. And just making myself feel bad for no reason, okay? Do your best every single day. Even if your best is 30%.
Just give 100% of that 30% and you're doing just enough, okay? I know life is short and there's so much to do and so little time, but shift the perspective when you start thinking like that, okay? There is time. You have so much time. You are so young. It doesn't matter how old you are listening to this. I know there's not 80-year-olds listening to this podcast.
However, whatever age you are, okay, you still have time. And all of the things that are meant for you are going to find you and you just have to believe that. And when you do, when you genuinely believe it, you will feel a lot less pressure. And I'm saying that because that's what I need to hear right now. I need to remind myself of that and just take life slow.
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End of pod. Actually, there's one more thing I want to tell you guys about. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, okay? This is the first time I've recorded in a while where I'm just sitting and I'm chilling and I'm chatting. Lisette and I have been doing our half marathon training, and it has been a really incredible experience. When I decided I wanted to run a half marathon, I was watching my friend. Well, I talked all about this on the episode with Brian, which was a great episode if you want to go listen. It's called It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint, and I think it was like episode 68 maybe. Yeah.
Might be making that up, but it's a great episode. Go listen. If you didn't listen though, I decided I wanted to run a half marathon when I watched two of my friends run the Miami Marathon. And Lissette and I woke up at four in the morning. We got there and we watched them run and we sat on this bridge watching the sunrise while people were running this marathon. And it was just the most inspiring moment ever.
Ever for me, like in a really long time, I felt so inspired just by humans. It was like collectively there were hundreds of us just cheering people on and then hundreds of people. I think 25,000 people ran the race. Maybe I'm making that up, but just hundreds of people running together and rooting for each other and wanting to see everyone succeed and.
It was empowering. It was beautiful and inspiring. And I think that's another reason I've been so focused on community lately, because when you feel the energy of other people supporting each other,
It makes you feel supported and inspired. I hope that makes some sense. I think it did. But another reason I was inspired to run this marathon is because I hate running and I don't like doing things that I'm not good at. I've never been good at running. I've never been able to run a mile really. I've never enjoyed it, never experienced a runner's high.
So something in me was like, I want to do something that's really, really, really going to challenge me this year. And running is definitely that. I don't have a passion for it. I don't enjoy it. But I believe that if I continue this training and I do it right, I'm going to learn to love it. And it's just super cool because...
Having that mindset where I can be open-minded to learning to love something that I hate is a new feeling for me. And I've been doing it and we're on day or like week four of training. First couple weeks, the training was very spread out because I was traveling a lot. And I think that with my lifestyle, it's going to be a very spread out training process. But I'm promising myself that I'm going to stay committed to it, which is another thing that's really, really big for me is actually keeping promises to myself.
Because when we can keep a promise to ourselves, we are unstoppable. And you should know that. But I decided...
that we're going to do this. So I ran five miles the other day. We walked a little bit, but we ran five miles in under an hour. And by the time we finished that, I felt so empowered. And I really started to believe in myself and understand that I was capable. And then I look at that on a scale so much bigger than just running, right? If I can believe, and if I can start the process, and if I can just keep taking baby steps each and every day, anything is possible. Anything. Anything.
You just have to take baby steps. They don't have to be these big, ginormous leaps. If you ran for 30 seconds longer than you did the day before, you're making progress.
And this isn't just about running. And this is really the basis of the whole entire episode with Brian if you want to get more into that topic because we talked a lot about that. But I'm done talking your ear off. Don't forget to tune in next week. I'm going to be with my therapist and we're going to talk about body image. And I think it's going to be very valuable for all of us and especially for me because...
I don't know. We're all human. We all struggle with what we look like, even though we shouldn't. And sometimes there's nothing you can do to change it, except become aware of it and start faking it till you make it. But I love you guys. I appreciate you. If you're listening to me ramble for this long about stupid crap, you have no idea how much you mean to me. Seriously, love you guys with my whole entire heart. And if you want me to do another episode on hot takes or controversial topics,
I'm happy to do so because I really only talked about a few things in this one, but that's all I got. I love you. You're my favorite people in the whole entire world, and I'll talk to you soon. I just am coming back because I realized that I didn't even tell you how to stop the Willow Project from happening. I'll put a link in my bio to sign a petition, and I'm also going to put on there different ways. I don't even know if I finished talking about what the Willow Project was, but I'm not even going to try at this point.
Do some research on it. You will be fascinated to see how we are destroying the world if we go through with something like this. But I'll put a link in my bio to sign the petition or to write a letter. Or you can also, I believe, call the White House directly or something along those lines. It's in the information. If you click the link in my bio, it'll tell you everything. But we can stop this and we can make a change. We're a very powerful generation and...
Damn, I can't believe I forgot to even say that. Like, I don't know. I'm all over the place. Good night. I love you. I'm going to bed and watching Outer Banks. Goodbye.