FRIENDLYDAVE

The speaker thanks everyone and promotes her Instagram accounts. She shares an experience with a homeless man she encountered daily. She felt compelled to help him and eventually brought him food and had a conversation with him. She learned that one decision can change a person's life. The man shared his story of making bad choices which led to prison. The speaker believes that every decision has an outcome and emphasizes the importance of staying true to oneself. She realizes how blessed she is and feels the need to bless others. She encourages listeners to follow their own path and make decisions aligned with their values. She concludes by thanking her audience and teasing a future podcast. I would just like to thank everybody. Make sure to follow my main Instagram at the Larissa Moncias, T-H-E-L-A-R-I-S-S-A-M-A-N-C-I-A-Z. My content page at Larissa's Views, L-A-R-I-S-S-A-V-I-E-W-S. Okay, so today I'd just like to really just keep it short. It kind of involves me having this interaction with this homeless guy and where God is placing me and what he has set out for me to do. So every day I leave school I've been seeing this homeless guy sitting on the bench and I could kind of tell that he was in need of some things and I felt it on my heart. I wanted to give him some things. Life would just pass by. I'm super, super busy so it almost seemed inconvenient and to me it felt bad for me to say that or to feel that. And then I remember speaking with somebody and just saying like I really feel, feeling on my heart like I'm supposed to be giving him something even if it's the bare minimum. I just want to talk to him and then find out his name and pray for him. I ought to say that I went today and took him some food and was able to sit down for have a little conversation with him. And then I experienced him having kind of an episode in the middle of him talking to me. And after that, you know, he went on to say that he was from Jacksonville, Ohio, but he stays in Athens, Ohio simply because of the atmosphere and the place in general. And then he was just going on. The biggest thing that I've learned from that conversation is just the fact that one situation that you make, one decision that you make can really change your life, whether that be for the better or for the worse. So he went on to cry, which really made me emotional, you know, but I'm more the reason why I believe that I needed to go and provide for him, whether that's big or small, and just to have a conversation with him and find out who this guy was. Silly Dave, my good friend now. But you know, he told me how he used to have a cab company, you know, take people from here to there. And then eventually he got into taking things and delivering things place to place, which in his words, like he said, he shouldn't have been doing, which placed him into prison, which took away five years of his life, you know. And then we sat there and talked about some things, and it just really made me think that one decision that somebody makes, one decision that you make, whether that be good or bad, literally has an outcome. And sometimes it's a bit scary because you realize every single thing that you're doing in life is leading towards something that's supposed to happen, you know. And him, I didn't do all of this. I don't provide, I don't give to people because I have offers, because I do not. You know, I'm a college student, and just to say that, I'm sure everybody understands that. But I told him, you know, I believe that God put it on my heart to come out here to you, and I just want to talk. I believe that when you have interactions with people, you're supposed to learn something. I just want to learn something from you today. And he, you know, he was just so thankful in the little things that I was able to provide him with. And I think the biggest lesson that I learned and that I took away from that is just that everything you're doing has to be for the better for you. You have to be doing it to better your future, whether that's something small, whether that's something big, but also just being very genuine and true to yourself. You know, I think when we were talking about how he kind of in the path that he is in now, what he explained, he, you know, got comfortable with the world. He got comfortable with the way he wanted things to work and how he wanted fast money and things like that. But I believe that every single day, you're supposed to take it step by step, something small. I know everybody knows the easy way to do things in life, but I really am a firm believer in understanding that everybody in life goes through lessons, but not everybody in life is supposed to learn those. We're supposed to learn the lessons through people. So we don't have to have to go and encounter those ourselves the hard way. Friendly Dave really did teach me a lot today that I wish I could express to some people a lot more. I hope that's part of why I'm doing this, but more of it just being an outlet and explaining that if you're still listening to this right now, just make sure that every single thing that you're doing in life is for you, for your true self, for your morals, and it's aligning with what you're supposed to be doing in life. I'm a firm believer in staying true to yourself and being who you are and the right people and the right things gravitating to you. Unfortunately, Friendly Dave is in a predicament to where some medical situations and food and a house and everything in those areas, he doesn't have that. I think often we take little things for granted when there's people that would literally die to be in the lives that we have. I think that encounter today really allowed me to realize how blessed I am, but I believe that when you are blessed, you're supposed to bless others and teach people about how you've been receiving these lessons, but also doing this to realize that money and cars and everything in those lines, none of it matters. None of it really matters if you're not staying true to yourself and following what you want in life. So I just say this all to say once again, always stand on who you are and understand that every decision that you make in life comes with an outcome. I would just like to thank everyone once again, who took the time to listen to this and stay tuned because there will be a formal podcast coming with me and some of my amazingly talented friends and family. Stay tuned.