This is a story about a 22 year old boy who has been in foster care since he was 7 years old. He is about to go to the bus stop to catch a ride home and needs $1,000 to pay for a car, a house, and some other things he needs. We are going to take him there and play basketball with him and make sure he doesn t have to go back to a shelter.
00:07:51.100Like, sometimes it's so easy for people to just kind of give up or just kind of take the other route where it's kind of like, ah, like, I'm defeated.
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00:27:22.580in the crib for that's for real like that's crazy
00:27:26.020we didn't want to put the address too this is crazy we wanted to be a prop home so you didn't
00:27:34.020know no one knows where you're gonna live so you're safe too so i'll take care of that for you too
00:27:37.960i appreciate that coming in here but this is real because literally i have no nothing to my name
00:27:43.520tomorrow i wouldn't have nothing to my name really after 6 p.m i don't have nothing to my name other
00:27:48.320and the clothes on my back and the stuff that i have like this is crazy and the taco what do you
00:27:53.980got to say to people now everyone watching i might be down right now in life hopeless and what do you
00:28:01.160got to say to people watching right now um just this
00:28:06.540don't don't ever think you need someone like when i be like need someone i don't ever like feel like
00:28:13.880it's like i don't even know what i'm about to say right now but let's don't ever feel like you
00:28:18.640need someone to sit there to give you motivation like what i mean like don't like if someone needs
00:28:22.360to tell you oh get up to go do this don't don't you can do it like only your biggest motivator is
00:28:26.960yourself literally no one else gonna pay your bills other than you no one else ain't nothing no one's
00:28:31.040gonna sit there and fix anything for you other than yourself so you gotta sit there when you when
00:28:34.960you're a whole adult you sit here you're paying taxes whatever country you're at you only can just
00:28:38.740spend for yourself so just sit there and just keep pushing yourself the only person that can push you
00:28:43.000yourself nine times out of ten so that's all that's what i gotta say amazing and just be
00:28:48.900grateful for every opportunity no matter if it's no matter if you didn't get the opportunity just
00:28:52.980always be grateful just always like beautiful man this is crazy bro and i appreciate i appreciate
00:29:04.100y'all i appreciate my cousin i'm gonna be so real especially him i'm gonna be so real like bro
00:29:09.620he's been helping me through thick and thin bro and it's like to see that to be here now is like
00:29:16.260bro i don't even feel real like it don't like to be right here where you be at bro shit don't even
00:29:21.500feel real i'm gonna be so real like this shit is crazy bro i'm gonna be so i'm just really appreciate
00:29:26.000you appreciate with a thousand bucks when i met you
00:29:30.740i cried i literally cried i literally cried i literally cried i literally cried on the spot
00:29:36.540because literally i didn't know what to do like i literally was like you know what i played all the
00:29:41.240cards in the deck what else is there to do like that's how i felt i sat there and i was calling my
00:29:45.840bum like bro i played all the cards in the deck what else did he just but he just sat there and laughing
00:29:49.920i'm just sitting there like trying to make something here and i'm just appreciative for
00:29:54.900everything like you you you and god i'm just appreciative i'm trying not to cry that's why
00:30:00.900i keep talking the more i talk the more i'm not gonna cry that's how i feel it's okay i cry all the time
00:30:06.000i don't even feel real like it still don't feel real because it's like
00:30:16.780literally i have my clothes in trash bags like literally in trash bags inside the closet this
00:30:21.920doesn't make sense at all bro like this does not make sense like i want to can i put this down
00:30:26.180absolutely of course bro it's yours i just need i just need to breathe like i just need to actually
00:30:30.800breathe and take it in like this is crazy
00:30:32.660you want to go check your car out again
00:34:17.140Like, I literally remember being in a car in a shelter as a child, and I'm just remembering like people just sitting there just walking past.