My Son, Strong & Courageous. Love, Appa. - 007 [OPEN LETTER]

you see in today's world there is not enough sharing of these ordeals these moments of courage these moments of bravery me maybe that's just because we no longer have moments of bravery required in today's world maybe that's because maybe that's why we no longer know how to deal with things there's no practice encouraged in today's world there's no experience of pain in today's world maybe that's why [Music] I've built many startups most of them the face of Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be we're gonna end it right there [Music] my dearest son this is a love letter from your Appa from your dad from your father to you this is more than a love letter this is a they hope a desire something so important to me that it must not wait it cannot wait I cannot wait any longer in

telling you this it has to be put down on the record before I go I've been thinking about this idea son this idea of self-preservation now this is not something that you will fully understand just yet but it has been understood as pretty much the strongest instinct of the human character the human being the human soul self-preservation the desire the intrinsic instinct the strongest instinct possible to survive self-preservation is the fear of death it could also be the fear of killing but mostly it's the fear of death it's the imperative to survive most flee from danger because of this mere instinct my son they flee from danger from a worldly sense self-preservation we often see self-preservation as wrong as cowardly as evil as selfish as depraved as weak someone who only looks out for themselves who is only interested in their survival this is so

easily seen in movies that you've seen in the past it's often the bad guy who in the moment in the moment of greatest distress the bad guy chooses to preserve himself over all of the other things that he proclaimed during the movie that he was gonna do to the world and he was gonna do to the good guys and how he was gonna destroy and how he was gonna do all of this in the moment and you know the Sun in the moment where his character the content of his character the real showing of his person in that moment the bad guys always show us their truest colors they are cowardly they are selfish and weak this is how self-preservation is looked at and often regarded and so I thought of this I was thinking about this and I and it's because of the current

experiences in our lives today and this is on my mind and I thought of this I thought of some president preservation well this is often looked at is so so wrong right so cowardly so weak so Solvers so evil what is the solution and the solution came simply it came easily the solution was courage courage courage is the answer to all of this courage to stand up for the wrong courage when it's easier to be cowardly courage amongst the depraved courage amongst evil courage when it's easier to be selfish encouraged certainly when you are weak courage is the answer to all of this my son especially in the face of death it's could be considered the highest virtue of a warrior right the highest virtue of a warrior is that they have courage in the face of impending death in movies it's made clear the

for the wrong courage when it's easier to be cowardly courage amongst the depraved courage amongst evil courage when it's easier to be selfish encouraged certainly when you are weak courage is the answer to all of this my son especially in the face of death it's could be considered the highest virtue of a warrior right the highest virtue of a warrior is that they have courage in the face of impending death in movies it's made clear the music rises the drums increase their pounding boom boom it gets the heart and blood moving sensing this this this this culmination to a moment when the when the main character the protagonist has to choose life death life death decision versus the riskiest risk of all time I mean that is the moment of courage and courage can only be modeled courage cannot be taught courage cannot be taught

my son I can never teach you to be brave I can't tell you I can tell you to have courage I can tell you to be brave in the midst of the unknown and in the midst of trying something new I can tell you to be brave I can tell you to have courage but I can't teach you that it's impossible son for me to teach you courage courage and bravery my son can only be modeled can only be grown in you through models models of discipline of training in a work ethic I could never teach you what I know in full in its fullness but I can model for you what work ethic looks like what training looks like what disciplined of mind and disciplined of body looks like I can model that for you I can model for you courage and I can

discuss with you openly and honestly the moments in which I have succeeded with courage and made the hard decisions and I can also tell you when I have failed what I have made power decisions when I should have been braver when I should have had more assertiveness when I should have spoken up when I should have been true to myself you see it is only in those moments that courage is revealed this is why courage my son can never be taught to you courage can only be revealed in you through the ordeal of initiation through the ordeal of experience through the ordeal of having to make the choice having to do and go into the grey and try when you don't know that's when courage is revealed that's the moment did you've been preparing for in your training in your discipline in your work ethic

you see your work ethic your discipline your training what I aspire to model for you my son it's a work ethic a discipline and a training that prepares me for the tough decisions and I want you to see that I want you to listen to what I'm saying so that you know why I do what I do and why I act and behave the way I do son you may never be with me during those ordeals during those moments when courage is required or chords not required but courage is necessary you may never be in the room with me ever but my desire is that you know the outcome you see in today's world there is not enough sharing of these ordeals these moments of courage these moments of bravery made me maybe that's just because we no longer have moments of bravery required in

son you may never be with me during those ordeals during those moments when courage is required or chords not required but courage is necessary you may never be in the room with me ever but my desire is that you know the outcome you see in today's world there is not enough sharing of these ordeals these moments of courage these moments of bravery made me maybe that's just because we no longer have moments of bravery required in today's world maybe that's because maybe that's why we no longer know how to deal with things there's no practice encouraged in today's world there's no experience of pain in today's world maybe that's why in many ways not that I know the truth or anything but I think a lot of parents in the past's have gone through extraordinary pains so much so that they have chosen to shield

their children from pain this is not how I have chosen life for you my son now this might seem deterministic but you are still young and yours will always be my son but you are still young someday you will be older and you'll be able to make your own decisions but for now I get to choose the model in which you experience life and I have chosen mostly due to the extraordinary amount of pain that I have suffered in this world I have chosen to not shield you from that this is why when you hurt yourself are you skinned your knee or you fall off your bike this is why I do not run to you in the moments in which I want to most in the moments in which you have fallen it is clearly painful and you look up and I am stone

it breaks my heart to be that way it does but I am never far away I am always close always close and you and I my son you and I have talked about this you are me and I am you we share the exact same genetic code but more importantly in this life now we share the exact same energy we vibrate at the exact same level you and I so when you fall and I do not come running it is because I want you to deal with it and don't think I don't love you when I am stone it is because I love you that I am stone because you can handle it you are strong you are brave you are courageous you already know this now does this mean that I am NOT making risk assessments every dadgum split-second as I'm watching you race

or do new things in life you better believe it brother I am calculating risk assessments at speeds unimaginable I am playing I am trying to be 1015 sir a minute ahead of you but guess what I don't know what's gonna happen in the moment I want you to experience life and its harshest and I also want you to experience life and its most beautiful I found interestingly enough my son that the most beautiful moments in life only come through the ordeal of pain the ordeal of initiation the ordeal of the opportunity to show yourself [ __ ] the world but to show to yourself what you are made of courage is what I want a model for you and in today's world courage is not the courage of being the warrior having the big axe the big sword the big shield in today's world my

enough my son that the most beautiful moments in life only come through the ordeal of pain the ordeal of initiation the ordeal of the opportunity to show yourself [ __ ] the world but to show to yourself what you are made of courage is what I want a model for you and in today's world courage is not the courage of being the warrior having the big axe the big sword the big shield in today's world my son what courage looks like is the ability to tread your own path to not follow the models of the world to do exactly what your heart desires you to do and execute upon it with absolute certainty that you will never know what the outcome will be but you have disciplined trained your mind and body to have the courage to withstand it and that you will find success

in that you will find what you're looking for only those who have the courage to fight for it will reap the desires of their heart and that's what I want for you my son I want for you the ability to seek the desires of your heart to have the courage to persevere and to fight till the end for it because it's worth it train yourself now discipline yourself now have the work ethic now so that in that moment that you have prepared for it will come I promise you it always comes that your courage will be revealed through that ordeal through that experience through that tough decision and in that moment the warrior receives his due the warrior receives his shield my son do not seek to preserve your life seek to discipline your life to train your life so that you can have courage

in life's most trying moments do not seek to preserve your life but go out fight from what your heart desires I love you I always love you my son [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]