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Pretending to Like Sports to Have Friends - YouTuber Josh Evans' Story
Pretending to Like Sports to Have Friends - YouTuber Josh Evans' Story
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So on this particular day in the year 1986, the most wonderful woman in the world, my grandmother, was watching me.
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She put me in a highchair.
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She turned around for a moment.
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And what did I do? I felt the need to stand and dance to the rhythm of my heart.
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And I started to shake my little booty all around, and suddenly the swaying and movement of my little pudgy body
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caused my highchair to tip over with me in it.
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She turns around at the last moment to see me land on the ground and, the weight of me in the highchair snapped my arm.
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Break number one. Now let's fast-forward a little bit. I'm four years old. I'm playing on the playground.
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I see all these kids having the time of their life. For some reason in my mind
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they looked like Olympians, and then there's me, an athletically challenged four-year-old.
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But I think, "Yeah, I'll show you." So I get on the monkey bars.
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I'm having a great time and then suddenly I decide I don't want to be up so high anymore, so I let go.
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Snap, crackle, pop. Break number two. So in this story time passes and around the age of 11 years old I
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love baseball.
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At least I think I love baseball. To be honest,
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I was never really good at baseball.
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But I wanted to play because that's what all my friends did. On this particular day,
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It was my turn to go up to bat.
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I swing, I crack the ball, and I just sprint to first base.
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I decided to slide into that base. Then guess what I heard? Snap!
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*Kch* Whoops. Break number three. And as I'm healing from this third broken arm,
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I start to think, "Maybe I shouldn't play sports. I'm not good at them.
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I don't enjoy going to practice or anything like that."
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But I was like, "I have no choice. if I want to have some type of social life and be accepted,
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I've gotta love sports." Once I got the cast off,
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I said, "I'm going back out to the field and I'm gonna keep playing baseball dad gummit!"
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So now I'm 13 years old, sporting a beautiful butt cut. So I'm out playing baseball once again,
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And we can all see where this story is going. I hit the ball, I go to first base,
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they say, "Round it, go to second." I go to second base. Guess what I do?
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I slid. Safe! Holy mother of Zeus!
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I didn't break my arm, guys! Then the coach said, "Keep going!" and I was like, "Yeah, man! I am gonna keep going!"
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I put my arm down, trying to make it look cool as I slide into third base.
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And then what do I hear? *Kch* And this time I didn't cry. It wasn't dramatic. I just felt like a jaded,
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grumpy, 80 year old man.
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Now let's fast-forward to 10th grade. When I woke up and had an epiphany one morning,
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I realized, "Josh, doing all these sports things and trying to fit in with all the popular kids, that doesn't make you happy.
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What makes you happy? What do you truly love?" The answer was clear. I love to entertain.
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But then when I was 18, I made a big decision
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and I moved to New York City to pursue one of the big loves of my life, this industry.
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Whether I'm two years old and dancing in a high chair, or I'm in my 30s, and
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I'm documenting my life or making my next music video. That's me
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That's Josh. So take my advice, internet.
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Don't waste years and years of your life trying to fit in to an image that you think other people will like just
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Because that's popular. Do what you like. My advice to you: avoid the metaphorical broken arms and really listen to who you are.
