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I Have a Death Row Penpal

This is arguably more inspiring than a human doing something because this is an act of nature or act of God or just like something that every creature has in it. And that's like, it's doing something for itself. It's like not sticking with the flock. It's not doing what everybody else is doing. It has something it needs to get done and it is laser locked and it's going to achieve it. Whether he is traveling out of depression or whether he's facing his fear or he's going to confront something or he's going to find something, recover something, whatever it is, it is him on a mission. And it's fucking genuinely, I'm not kidding you. And I posted this on my close friends. I haven't been inspired by something like this in a really long— it's my phone background. I had to change it. I had my phone background for 2 days, but I had to change it because it was actually making me sad because I was I kept thinking about him.

January 20, 20262:37David
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Natalie2:09
The penguin is mentally ill. He's sick and there's something wrong with him.
David2:12
Okay, that— it's, it's, it's actually disgusting that you like go on with your life like thinking like this because it's just so uninspired.
Natalie2:21
But what he's doing is not inspiring. Like, I wasn't inspired by the act that he was doing. Like, I, I'm inspired by people that are doing inspiring things, but this This penguin, I'm not interpreting the, interpreting, fuck, interpreting the penguin that's w…
David2:37
This is arguably more inspiring than a human doing something because this is an act of nature or act of God or just like something that every creature has in it. And that's like, it's doing something for itself. It's like not sticking with the flock. It's not doing what everybody else is doing. It has something it needs to get done and it is laser locked and it's going to achieve it. Whether he i…
Natalie3:30
I think that the people like yourself and like Ilya that are feeling inspired or motivated, whatever the hell, by this video clip, you're going through something and you're interpreting this like with your— you're projecting yourself onto something that's lik…
David3:50
And like, I don't really honestly ever have that feeling to have to go, but you're having it right now because of this thing, because I'm never like looking around like, how do I go against brain today. Like, that's never my thing.
David4:02
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