hey guys it's Conan and last weekend
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December 5th I turned 17 years old it's
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really weird to think that I'm 17
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because I still look and feel like a
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10-year-old so um I can't I don't think
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I fully processed it yet I don't want to
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really think about it too much and so
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last weekend I didn't film a video cuz I
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wanted to just spend time with my family
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and friends and just actually enjoy my
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birthday instead of spending tons of
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time trying to remember my birthday like
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to just enjoy my birthday I wanted to
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film this video 16 things I learned by
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16 last year but um I never did it so I
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thought i' would finally do it this year
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I'm filming this because I really want
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to be able to look back on this video
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when I turn 18 or 19 or whatever and see
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what 17-year-old me thought of the world
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and what 17-year-old me thought he knew
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and just know what 17-year-old me's
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outlook on life was so this isn't really
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like advice or anything this is just
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things that I have learned by 17 I hope
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it's I don't know I hope I don't know
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let's just let's just let's just do it
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number one is that I haven't learned 17
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things in life yet I'm still like a baby
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mentally though I know like a lot about
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the world and I've gone through a lot of
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a lot of things I still feel
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like a baby but here is what I think
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I've learned by 17 and who knows in a
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year I might look back on this and be
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like what were you thinking Conan that's
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wrong two Fame and success does not mean
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happiness this is something that took
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forever for me to learn and honestly I
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still haven't fully learned this because
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I still find myself thinking like oh if
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I were you know I think I'd be really
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happy if I were famous but it's so wrong
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it's the wrongest statement ever when I
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I was a small small YouTuber when I had
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like 50 subscribers before I ever really
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started making YouTube videos I always
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thought like oh if I had like 1,000
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subscribers I'm sure I'd be so happy cuz
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all these people would love me like how
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could I be sad if all these people loved
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me and then I got a th000 subscribers
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and I was like um not really that happy
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maybe if I have 10,000 subscribers I'll
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be happy and then I reached 10,000
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subscribers and I was like I'm still not
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happy but I'm sure once I have 100,000
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subscribers I'll be the happiest person
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on Earth my life will be great and
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everything will be fine and look at me
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I'm almost at a 100,000 subscribers and
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I'm definitely not what I expected
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myself to be at 100,000 subscribers if
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you spend your whole entire life trying
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to get material things and trying to
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have Fame you're never ever going to be
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happy um I promise because it's just it
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just doesn't work it just just doesn't
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and it took me forever to figure this
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out and I really just want to tell this
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to all the small YouTubers out there
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because Fame on YouTube or fame or any
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material things on this Earth will not
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give you happiness I guarantee it don't
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spend your entire life trying to get
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this Fame thing if it's not it's just
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not going to make you happy just do what
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you love to do and um that's the main
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way to happiness number three numbers do
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not Define you my entire life numbers
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have defined me I've been like oh I get
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all these good grades I'm the best wow
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good job Conan here's your flag of
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happiness and I thought that when I got
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bad grades I was just immediately like
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nothing I was just scum of the earth and
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then when I started making YouTube
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videos I would always think that since I
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have more subscribers than this person
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I'm better than them and if I have less
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subscribers than this person then
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they're better than me and just numbers
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have defined me my whole entire life and
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I'm finally learning that they do not
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mean anything number four go and play
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outside you Hol again okay I do this
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thing where I just don't go outside for
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like months I I just don't go outside
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and I turn into this disgusting like
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pale naked mole rat it's really bad but
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really like go outside go outside go
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outside number five you really only need
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a few deadly dang good friends you
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really only need like one really really
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good friend friend um but friends are
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too great to only have one I mean
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striving for popularity just results in
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having a whole bunch like a ton and ton
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of really mediocre friends it's not fun
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at all just find that one person and
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you'll be set you really you really only
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need like a few good friends ever since
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I've met my friend group which is super
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close it's only like six people um I've
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never ever questioned like oh I think I
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need some more friends it's just I just
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love my friend group and that's really
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all you need number six you need sadness
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in your life and it's completely normal
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to be sad you really need like really
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sad depressing times in your life just
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to be able to appreciate all the really
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fun times you have in your life without
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the sad you can't really differentiate
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what's really really great and what's
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really really bad so when you're feeling
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like a rotting potato don't worry
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because there's a lot of other people
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feeling like rotting potatoes and it's
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completely normal to be a rotting potato
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fine you are great in the course of the
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17 years of my life I found that the
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things that I miss the most are the time
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spent doing nothing just sitting around
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with the people I love or sitting in the
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cafe for hours on end with friends
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laying on the floor in dead
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silence doing nothing laughing
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uncontrollably with my neighbors in
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California there're the moments that you
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don't really notice or happening when
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they're happening but then when you look
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back on them they're the memories that I
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miss the most number eight it's super
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super okay to be a rebel child and to
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skip school as long as you don't get
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like kicked out of school for it or you
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miss a whole bunch of tests or something
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it's super super fine to skip school
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sometimes I'll just wake up and I just
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can't I just can't do it the this life
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thing so I'll just stay home and do all
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my homework and B and cry and watch
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Netflix and it's it's so great just if
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you feel like you're dying don't go to
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school number nine that's an eight
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number nine nobody cares what you look
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like and people who do care what you
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look like don't matter obviously this is
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super easy for me to say but it's really
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hard to input in your own life because
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people are really mean and judgmental
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but if that statement helps you in the
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slightest bit then I'm glad that I did
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something because it's super super hard
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to learn that and I haven't even learned
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it yet number 10 hands down Middle
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School is the worst place ever and if
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you're in middle school and everybody
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hates you and you hate everyone don't
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worry Middle School is just a really
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horrible place it's a really horrible
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time of everybody's life and you'll go
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on to high school and life will be a lot
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better middle schoolers are just pure
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evil that's it 11 being an actual crazy
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person is so great and very very
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necessary just rolling around and
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singing super super loud you really need
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to do these things in order to stay sane
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which is ironic because you look like a
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crazy person doing them 12 have one
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thing to look forward to at the end of
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every week for me that's mostly just
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being able to sleep in because I don't
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really get to sleep in ever and being
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able to spend time with my friends for
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me without something to look forward to
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at the end of the week I just can't do
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it and I I will break down I guarantee I
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will break down I can't do it 13 find
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something that lets you de-stress and
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just do it constantly all the time for
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me that is singing anyone who knows me
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or has spent like more than an hour with
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me knows that there's just a constant
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stream of noise coming out of my mouth I
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cannot shut up it's so bad I'm always
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singing but it's my way of de-stressing
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and I just can't control it I don't even
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notice that it's going on it's my way of
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coping with stress and if I couldn't
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sing I don't think I don't think I would
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be okay so find something that lets you
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de-stress and just do it all the time it
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took me forever forever to learn that
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other people's opinions don't matter if
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you're proud of the things that you've
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done then that's it you did it who cares
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what other people think number 15
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In-N-Out is definitely the most
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comforting food for me if there's one
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thing on this list that is 100% correct
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this is the one 16 you never really know
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what you have till it's gone I know this
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statement has been said a million times
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by every wise bearded man on Earth and
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woman but it's so true and there's a
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reason why it's so famous last summer I
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thought that I was moving to California
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permanently I was moving because I
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thought that I really had nothing left
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in this small Texas town I thought that
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I had nothing that I would miss and I
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thought that there was no point in me
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being here so I was just going to move
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to California but by the time summer
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ended and I was in California for the
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whole summer I really just wanted to
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come home to Texas I didn't know that I
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love this tiny town and all the
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beautiful amazing people in it until I
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left for a really long time and so I
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came back and now I'm here and I love it
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I love it so much number 17 I am
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grateful for everything I know this for
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sure I'm super super grateful for my
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friends and my family and my home and my
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talents and the opportunities I've been
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given in life I'm grateful for my
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failures and my enemies because they've
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made me the person that I am today and
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I'm just so grateful for you guys I mean
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my life would be so different if I if I
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didn't have YouTube so thank you so so
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much thank you for watching this video
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If you enjoyed it you can give it a
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thumbs up if you didn't enjoy it you can
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go that way or you can fly away up there
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there's just a lot of great things that
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you can do other than hating on me in
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the comments but you can hate on me in
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the comments too if you want I mean that
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might be your outlet hating
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people that doesn't sound very fun I
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have been wearing sweatpants this entire
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video sorry I've been super off schedule
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of this whole YouTube thing for so long
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I know I'm I'm I know that you guys are
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really mad at me about it and I haven't
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been making you know the types of videos
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that you guys really love but I've been
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trying to do things that I love school
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is really stressful finals week is next
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week and I think I might break down into
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yours talking about it so I'm just going
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to stop talking about it but afterwards
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it's going to be winter break I'm going
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to have tons of time it's going to be
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super great and I will get back on
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schedule yay for me being 17 hopefully
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this will be a really good year for me
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and for you guys really hope this is a
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great year for you guys I'll see you
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guys next week with a brand new video
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God bless and goodbye
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like a day waking up up it up but with
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your last scking TI hearing the s song
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the pieces F and everything is working
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fine you to the LI that something's up
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don't be right you call black
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