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The second you own that, that's your power. All of a sudden it's not about trying to look at a situation from a human being standpoint where you don't agree.

It's okay not to agree. There's a way to talk to anybody when you're in a situation battling about not agreeing. It's okay. You're allowed to have your own opinion, but it's the way and the tone that you deal with it. The understanding of, "Okay I'm understanding where your beliefs come from and I acknowledge that. This is where my beliefs come from, and this is what I'm doing.

So the fact that we don't agree on this, that's okay. I appreciate what you think about that situation, I would respect if you appreciated how I feel, and we're still friends. The craziest thing I've learned too with the more spiritual I'm becoming, it's the enemies sometimes are the ones that tell you the truth. The truth that God wants you to hear -- he's testing you.

He'll allow someone that shouldn't be in your circle to tell you the truth. You'll hear that and be like, "Wait a minute, am I really supposed to be listening to that? It's so peaceful because I'm at peace, and I trust myself. Once you stop seeking any kind of validation inner peace can begin. But people need that from other people.

I mean that's what social media is, right? People get bummed out if they don't catch that "like" from a friend. That's the thing. How have we allowed ourselves to become this society that is so based on comparison when comparing in the bible is a sin.

One of the main sins is comparison because God created all of us in His image. We're all humans. We're here for love. This is the test. We're only here for what? You get years here -- you've got eternity in heaven. Are you really going to shame all these people and be a tough guy on the Internet when you're probably going to be in heaven with that dude, the end of your life?

You're going to have some serious things to own up to when you get to heaven. For me, I'm trying to have the least amount of explaining to do when I get to heaven. That's why I'm living my life the way I'm doing it now: Respectful and to live with love. I'm not saying I don't go off the cuff and get angry. I have that aggressive side of me that lives, and it's even stronger now because of my morals and my beliefs. When I see laziness or I see people complaining about their beautiful lives, it really bothers me.

I've learned how to express that frustration in words that people can relate to and somewhat go like, "Oh, damn. Maybe I'm kind of being an ass. But if you can't give them something they can work with, tell them you cannot. Once I started realizing that if you're just dead honest and dead real with people, and if you don't know the answer and you tell them you don't know, it's so much more powerful. It might suck at the time, but it's way more powerful to know that you didn't give someone invalid information that could end up hurting them or getting them into a situation that they didn't account for.

These reactions and these spider web effects of our actions, can be avoided by simply just showing love. In the beginning, it was just me and my skateboard. With pressure and expectations, everything changed and I almost quit. But my love for skateboarding is real and I'm passionate about it now more than ever. The bottom line is, and I'm guilty of it too, when people put negativity out there, it's because they've got their own negative issues going on.

I go back and read my interviews, and yeah, they're funny but some of the stuff I asked 20 years ago I wouldn't ask that of somebody today. It's growing up. You can learn wisdom. Be slow to speak and be quick to listen. I started doing that more. I started learning wisdom.

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