Reflection and Lessons Learned

in that triple seven performance in arlington texas with robbie gordon's old newell and making this youtube video right now i might be doing something else on some other trajectory but just that quickly my life just went in a direction that i was totally not ready for but absolutely wanted to go into it's just that that's why you put yourself out there you talk to people and you bring value to the table you don't just like no one's gonna put you on like that doesn't work like that you gotta do something for them you gotta carry something with you that's worth something in their eyes for their own lives that's why people wanna help you that's how you get places like if i didn't if i wasn't like hustling and doing stuff and breaking out of the box with the escalade none of these guys would have ever given a crap to talk to me because i'm not worth anything to them that's how it works this that's the that's the essence of life whether whether you want to believe it or not everybody does everything out of self-interest i don't care what you say it's just how it is if if it's not a two-way street nothing happens so there's many people like cooper along my story of the last five years that play i'd say close to or equal amount of role when it comes to like changing the course of my ship through something they did but cooper's one of those keystone guys that if you pull him out of the the timeline i don't know where i'm at right now and i just think it's super cool that he's out starting his own thing and i can't wait to do stuff with him and hopefully he finally boosts that tahoe and i'd love to build a turbo kit for it because heck i don't know if there's no cooper there might not be me and you you might not be sitting here right now i may not have these lessons to pass on and that's really the essence of what i do here that's why i do it because i don't know i mean i've said this before and i beat it to death on instagram if you've followed me there for the last couple years but i'm not gonna change like i'm me i'm still that guy that showed up to drag week 2016 not knowing what he was doing and i had like a thousand instagram followers and i was just some dude who freaking hated going to college and with avoiding responsibility i'm still that guy i still feel like that guy i don't i don't i don't care i don't identify with the numbers that's not my self-worth is not tied to the numbers on a social media page all that does is signify to me how much more…