Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. We all have to have it,
whether we produce it ourselves, or we're on Amazon and
we're buying other people's creativity, or we're stealing it. Oh yeah,
on YouTube. All of that incredible music. I remember I
had to buy that music, or I had to wait
for terrestrial radio to play those songs. Nowadays, it's like
it's mine unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity,
totally uncut, because we all make mistakes, so turn it
into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. I guess maybe
I was a frustrated kid because I thought that I
lived with the meanest parents on the face of the planet.
I really did, because I was constantly getting in trouble.
But in looking back, I think I caused that trouble
and all they were trying to do was protect me.
So at the age that I am today, I sit
here and I wonder if I was misbehaving, if I
was the one that put into play something that really
wasn't right, that didn't agree with my parents. Maybe it
was to get their attention because I was one of
eight children. You do stuff like that. But the thing
that gets inside my heart today, since both of my
parents are gone. Is I love how their words are
becoming a part of my words. And when you talk
about a word like behave, oh, that's my mother all
the way, because I can still hear my mother saying
that behave, behave, and she would really drive that message home.
But did we listen. No, I was that kid that
wanted to get in trouble just so I could get
some attention. Hey, it's arrow, this is the choice. This
is what I was writing while the sun was waking
up on a brilliant new day. And today we're reading
from March thirty first, twenty twenty three. In my morning
prayers this morning, I did use that term that clearly
seems pretty old fashioned. We need to behave now. The
definition is to act or conduct oneself in a specified way,
especially to others. Therefore, there has to be a goal, right, well,
it is. There's a goal to develop good habits which
improve physical, mental, spiritual, and social wellbeing of a person.
Personally speaking, Behaving doesn't get you in the headlines. You've
seen it happen. Look at that every magazine cover at
a grocery store. Go to your social media connections. How
many people there are really behaving thanks to social media
and trash magazines. Before that, bad behavior got your name
in front of people. The running joke was just make
sure they spell your name right. If someone truly knew
how to win the lottery and promise to never abuse
the way to victory lane, how long would it take
for them to misbehave? Look at how many people have
physically showcased bad behavior only to deny it in the headlines.
Can we just behave? We all want to be that
bad guy, that bad girl, someone who's a little bit
rougher on the inside than they are on the outside
to hang out with the cool people. Even Phonsie on
happy Days? Did he really behave? If they would have
made him a really super nice guy like Richie Cunningham,
would we have attached ourselves to the bad guy? There
are so many people who take a chance on bad
behavior in hopes that it will get them in front
of others. Doctor David once said to me, your problem
isn't depression. Your problem is you've got an addiction to excitement.
You want to be on that cliff every moment of
every day, and you want to jump. That's where we
need to start. We need to figure out what's putting
you on that cliff. It was in that moment that
I decided, you know, maybe it is time to start
keeping a journal because I don't know the map to
the cliff. I don't know how I got there or
why I got there, because I was long gone away
from my parents. It wasn't about getting attention anymore. Maybe
it was about just getting ratings on the radio. Do
something so people will talk about you. Wasn't it Roseannebarr
and Tom Arnold who said, Rosie, we got to get
out there in the public eye. When you go out
there to sing the national anthem, do it in a
way that will make people talk. Kind of backfired on her.
But you know what, she got a lot of headlines
for bad behavior? Or was it bad behavior? Was it?
What constitutes that? Again? The definition according to dictionary dot com,
it's an act or it's the way we conduct ourselves
in a specified way, especially to others. The goal is
to develop good habits which improve physical, mental, spiritual, and
social wellbeing of a person. Are you practicing good behavior?
What about when you jump into church on Sunday you're
doing good? You feel good? Because it says spiritual? How
long does that last for you? Guys will always be guys,
and we're learning that girls will also be girls. I
don't know which one is misbehaving more, but I'd love
to see some research on who is gaining more access
to the headlines for bad behavior. Watching yourself. That was
another term my mom used to say, you better watch yourself.
You better watch yourself. Becoming aware of what you do
is one thing when you compare it to what you
do do and what you have done is the other thing.
I can watch myself all day, but that doesn't mean
I'm going to behave I'm Eryl And that's what I
was writing while the sun was waking up on a
brilliant new day.