Practice #65 - Carrying A Tree Down The Street (Yes, You Read That Right)

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So I'm walking down the street doing like farmers carries with you will never guess what I'm carrying

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Literally a tree a tree

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Last spring our tree was very big like we had a tree in our front yard

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That was like overgrown it was starting to like grow into our house and like the leaves were like brushing against our house and

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We decided to do something about it

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And so I'm like I grabbed my saw and it's springtime

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I'm barefoot because I like being barefoot. I'm shirtless because I'm starting to build a nice physique

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And I'm like, yeah, let's I'm feeling a little bit more confident and I kind of I just like being shirtless now

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and

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Then I have this saw like this little like frickin blade that I have and I'm just standing on this tree

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Standing on a bunch of mulch tearing apart my feet, but I don't care. I'm sawing off all these little massive branches

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huge branches that if they fell on our house, they would actually do

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significant damage and

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and sawing down the branches and then I get to this one massive branch that if I saw it it will surely

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Fall onto our house because just the way it was leaning was already gonna be pushing on to our house

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and so I got my dad and he helped me and

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Literally I stood on top of the roof of our house on top of the roof

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I had to go climb up to the attic and then go out a window literally open up the window and

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Climb through the window and this roof was pretty steep

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So I had to like crouch down and like kind of butt crawl down

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And I once I got to the edge my dad was like, okay, I'm gonna drop it now and I was like, oh, no

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I'm getting nervous if I lean forward. I literally fall down the like fall off the house

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But anyways, I grabbed the top of the tree and I like push it over and it falls off to the side and

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It's like pollen season. I think pollen season in spring season

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but it's like

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Extremely pollinated that tree because there's a bunch of like

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Little things on it that have a lot of pollen and the site was amazing

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I was standing on top of the roof and I had a perfect birds-eye view watching the fall

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So I pushed it down and this was this massive tree like literally half of the tree

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Was falling down in front of me. I just saw it in slow motion. It was falling

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boom and

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It I literally just saw like all of the leaves like go down and then back up

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And then I saw like the bounce back shoot out pollen in all directions

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It was an amazing sight to see I just like

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The tree fell down

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It was like dead silent and then it

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And then it went up and then

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Oh all the pollen like literally all over the place

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That was awesome

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But now we had literally an entire tree

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hanging out on our sidewalk and

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so we have to clean it up so

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the only option that I see is

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How about I just carry it

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So I pick up I literally crouch down. I'm like, okay, so you know those at the gym

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there's a

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Straight bar deadlift and then there's also like the deadlift bar that goes like around you and it's like a box

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I forgot what it's called, but it's kind of like a squat kind of thing, but it's also like a deadlift

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So imagine like that kind of deadlift so I squat down and I pretty much am acting like I'm doing that and I grab the tree

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The whole tree is behind me all of the leaves

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I grabbed a tree and I picked up with both hands and I get into good farmers carry position and

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I make sure that I'm evenly carrying the tree so it doesn't like

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Drag behind me and I'm just like carrying it down the block

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imagine

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driving by

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Because there were it was like rush hour at this time and so all of the cars were literally just driving by and they see this shirtless

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Dude carrying a tree down a block down a city block literally in the suburbs like

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Like I'm I live in like Chicago basically

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like I can walk four

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blocks down and see Chicago, but

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Or be in Chicago and so I'm literally just driving or walking down like this looking

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looking like a beast

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carrying the tree and

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I'm just I have to go all the way around my block turn all the way down turn

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Go down my alley and do all the way back to the backyard

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So I can like put it in our backyard so we can chop it up even more and put it into our compost bin and

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I have to do this for like eight trees. So literally that entire afternoon

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I'm doing farmers carrying carrying tree after tree after tree and I just remember one time

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Probably the biggest tree that I was carrying

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This dude in the in a really nice car like drove by and he was like yeah

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He's like yeah

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like

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Like and then I just thought that was cool and so that

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Honestly like before I did that I was a little nervous. I was like, yeah, like I'm starting to build a physique now

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I don't want to be like

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overly like trying to show it off or anything

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But I was like no, this is cool like I like being shirtless and barefoot like this is this is what I do

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This is what I enjoy

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So like that was one of the times where I learned a big lesson

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Don't care what you think others think

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Like I'm asking myself

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Do I really want to

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Do

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One potentially destroy an upcoming amazing experience or memory and story to tell

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Like and put on my shirt and not be myself

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And also do I really want to adhere to the societal norms?

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No screw society screw societal norms

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No society is great. I we all benefit a lot from society, but

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We put ourselves into a trap

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like

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This is something that like I've been trying to destroy for forever

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But we put ourselves into a thinking trap

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where

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We're kind of thinking like oh, I hope I don't get judged. Oh this that oh this is not normal

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But I kind of want to do it and then you don't do it

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But that's when you should do it because want to expand your comfort zone to it tells yourself

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This is the type of things that I do like this is just what I do like this is the type of person

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I am I do what I want even though I

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Think that other like even though society may not like it well

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And yes, there is a fine line like of course don't do something that society

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Like will put you in prison for but like for those societal

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expectations

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Like something harmless like literally walking down shirtless

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So

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That's it