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tennis for me is therapy. Tennis for me is a very huge therapy thing for me. I worked open the clothes and had no days off until today, It doesn't matter who I'm playing with. It doesn't matter the age. It shouldn't matter the age. I just need this game. So when it is time to play again, I can just reach out to you guys and not look for you guys I'm a cool person. I feel like somebody will see this and be like, that's what they all say. I needed tennis today and I'm really happy that I had tennis. Welcome back to another episode of I'm just sharing with Shonda. I am Shonda. Hey guys. Hey, how you doing? I hope you're doing great. I hope everything is just going and.

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going.

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Um, I've been okay. Why have I been okay? Well, let me tell you. Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm so loud. Um, well let me tell you. All last week, due to being understaffed at my store, all last week I had to do basically open and closing shifts all week,

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and all weekend.

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So I haven't had a day off. This week, um, would have been the same thing. Of opening and closing, and just not being able to have a day off. Luckily, um, one of the managers came through for me, um, and I appreciate everybody who, you know, reached out just to check, um, but one of the managers came through for me, made sure

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that

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stool was covered and she said, well, at least to have two days off because like working back to back nonstop, that's ridiculous. And I agree. It's crazy. Um, But it's just currently what I'm dealing with right now. So that leads me to say, because this episode is coming out late and at this time, I recorded in real time. So happy Thursday, y'all. I haven't had time to record all last week. So here I am now.

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I

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am happy that I got something out on the Thursday.

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Sad

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because of how it all like

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came and timing

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and everything and energy all dedicated into work. Um, and not really having time for myself as soon as I get home because I've would get home from here to work. It's like a 30 minute drive. So if I get out at my

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time, which

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Um, I would get here at 6, 6, 10, 6, 15, around that time, you know, fine. But because I've been doing opening closing shift, I really haven't had. Time to myself because as soon as I get home, I want to sleep. I get home like around nine 30, 10. The latest that I

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got home

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last week was 11, 11, 15. And I'm like, this is ridiculous. Crowd in my car, everything. Um, things take time. Things happen for a reason. So I know this is happening for a reason. I'm lined up for something great. I have to go on this trajectory. because of the way how things are going to go in my future. I have to see that. I have

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to stay positive about

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that, which leads me into today. Oh my gosh. I said I wanted to do research on this. I'll just lead into today.

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I'm exhausted.

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Okay. I am extremely

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exhausted,

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but for some reason. So

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my I I

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build up the energy to do what I need to do, especially at work again, exhausted as hell, but I'm not a energy drink type of person.

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I am not

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a coffee type of person. I'm not on that type of time. It's nothing but water over here and natural energy. So it's so crazy to me

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how I find

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it. And then just. It's put on the face for people who come into the store since I'm front facing all the time. I have to put on

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the smile, have

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to feel so

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energized when I

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am exhausted,

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but I find

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that energy and

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it

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and it works. Finding that energy outside of the store. When I get home, it's very hard because as soon as I get in my bed, I'm like, yo, I'm so done. I'm so done and trying to

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find the time

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to just do what I need to do. It's just tough. But

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I found

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the energy today. First, I had to stop at my friend's house and being

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um,

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there With

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how

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changes a girl, because I've been in that house three to four years. Okay. And

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seeing how like I'm not there when I

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do

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and go in and check

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house.

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It's like wow

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things are happening. Things are different in this house. And it's really cool to see because I'm like, Oh snap, he did that. And, you know, cause they said, What they're gonna do. And when I was there,

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you know time, you know

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energy, they just didn't have the time. And now that they got the

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actually finding

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the time to do stuff, I'm like, wow,

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that's changed,

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that's new, you know, seeing it around the house. So it was really soothing. Um,

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and then

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Foxy also has like a garden and it was beautiful. And she has these plants, it's called lip balm. lemon

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balm

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and you would rub, uh, the leaf and it just smelled so like minty lemony. It was just so good and that soothed me even more. So I was like, okay, I'm glad that I, you know, got this. On my way home, of course,

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I'm passing the high

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that, um, I played tennis at

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and,

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uh, me and my friend Trevor play tennis. I haven't played tennis in a while, right? Love tennis. I love tennis and see in. I'm going to say maybe

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students at the

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high school. But it's tough because one did have like a Boston University shirt on, so

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I don't know,

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But either or I saw them

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and I was like, wild.

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uh, I'm going to go watch them play tennis. I'm on the phone with my sister and I'm like

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wild.

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and two things can be true. It's just so many things that I recognize, right? And

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I recognize how

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weird that is. Again, I love tennis.

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I don't mind watching random

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people play tennis either on a TV, but having these kids play tennis is just really, really cool. So I was like, I'm going to watch these people. People play tennis. I'm not going to call them kids because they're not. They're young adults. And this is the weird

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thing that led

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me into this because I'm on the phone with my sister and I was

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like, she wanted to like, It's,

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it's cool, but this is weird. Like I'm an adult. I'm an adult. I'm 27 and I'm watching kids play tennis and it made me think

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about how

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it's, it's different in the aspect of like little, little kids in that playgrounds

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and you have like

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man or anything, a man

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just watching kids.

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That's weird, where you never suspect, suspect a woman. To be that type, but everybody is a suspect in a way predator ish. That is what crossed my mind. I'm not saying this

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when I gave off

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I did go down into the court, watching play and just acknowledge good points. And like, this is, this is the shit. This is really cool. So because I love tennis so much, and that is my game. I know that I need it because tennis for me is therapy. Tennis for me is a very huge therapy thing for me. It's

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It's huge. I said, can I

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play with you guys? I cannot play with you guys. And it's so weird leading up. It always happens at any time that I'm just out and I end up watching tennis. I don't have my things. So I didn't have anything in my car. And usually I had my tennis racket.

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And I didn't have that.

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So I was like, can I play with you guys? And he was like, yeah, sure. And I was like, okay, I need, I started getting myself. I'm like, nice. I need 15

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minutes and I'll be right back. So I had to head home because where I'm at, I'm like 15, I swear.

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I feel like it was like 15 minutes to the house. Let me think.

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just feel like I'm right at the street

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from where I play tennis at. Okay. So I was like, I need 15 minutes. I'll be back. I'm getting my tennis shoes, all that. I just planned it. I'm like, Oh my gosh, I gotta go. So I end up getting my stuff. I get home. I'm still on the phone with Shawanda and I'm like, Oh, I'm getting everything. And it seemed like I was taking long. It didn't feel like it. Feel like I was taking long, but Siobhanda like made a joke. She said, you know, by the time you leave, they're going to be gone. I said, don't say

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that.

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So then I'm like, Oh my gosh, I hope not. I really hope not. And I'm going, I'm driving in the car and I started singing.

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rising up,

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Back Myy.

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Take my time

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and took my chances. That's not the lyrics, but either or. I was like, I, I have to do this. And it's so funny 'cause so many obstacles were in the way as I'm going and I'm singing this song out loud,

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There's traffic, like. Ahead of me. I'm like, God damn it! And I

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was like, you think they're still there? Right? Like I'm on the phone with Shawanda. I'm like, you think they're still there? She said, you're fine. Like, I'm pretty sure that they will be. So I'm like, okay, cool.

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Ah,

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I get to the, I get to the tennis court, they're

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there. And I'm like, yes!

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Okay. So when I'm there and it's like 1, 2, 3, 5, I wanna say it was like five, six of them, I wanna say probably like five, could say six. I'm sorry. They were there and I was like, okay. They were playing like devils. And I started to like go in, well, three on three. So I was like, started to like play. It was six. Then I started to play with them and I'm like, oh snap, this is

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really fun.

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They're really good. And I'm like, okay, I can't slip. I cannot let these dudes know that I am okay. I'm good. I'm good. I just need, I need to show that. I can't do any fuck ups.

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Um,

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Well because I haven't played in a while I'm so rusty and I'm like in my head. I'm like, oh my gosh it was like really, really fun.

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then I

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was like, I really want a singles game. Cause I really do want to play a singles game. So I asked, I said, does anybody want to play singles? And nobody said anything. So I was like,

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Nobody

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said anything. Like they were thinking about that, like thinking about that. And I'm like, they like playing like how we're playing now, but I really just want a game of singles. And I'm like, yes, no, maybe so. And, um, Yeah, it was just like super weird, but one person said yes, so I ended up playing singles with him, and it was really good. The score, I was keeping up with the score, but it was throwing me off that he was playing, we were singles, but he was playing doubles. So any point that was out, he called his end. It was a whole thing, but either or, I was like, yeah. This is good. And as I was playing, like I'm glad I got some points in and that we did go up like close to ending one set, but I just seen that he wanted to go back and play as a group. So I was like, if you want to go over there, like we can go over there. And we ended up going over there. I ended up sitting down. And, um, they were already like mid game or whatever. It was just really good. They started like, uh, two had to like go home and I just ended up playing with the four and then I was like, all right, cool. They had to go. So this all made me think of, hold on. This made me think of Jennifer Lawrence on her Netflix movie, No Hard Feelings, right? And the description of that when the brink of losing her childhood home, a desperate woman agrees to date a wealthy couple's introverted and awkward 19 year old son. However, he proves to be more of a challenge than she expected and time is running out before she lose it, loses it all. Right? So it just made me think in that whole dynamic of a movie that she's,

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hanging out

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with a 19 year old boy, but he's a young adult. So like at 19 at that age, you know, you're

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19, you should

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be drinking, hanging out with around the same age people. Right. But it made me think

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like how

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that could be cool because after we finished playing, I'm like, oh my gosh, I should've gave them one of my, my, Social media, because if we wanted to hang, if

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I

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if I wanted to play again, I would want it to be like very. natural. Like, Hey, do you guys want to

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tennis?

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Nothing more than that. But it's weird that a 27 year old, and this is what society, this is also made me think about like society that me as a 27 year old is hanging out with 19 year olds or 18 year olds. However, they were in school either, or these are young adults. It shouldn't be a awkward thing, but

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I know with parents

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and them probably explaining, I would just imagine when I'm going home, like every head, like. a girl because I do look

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young. I

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do look young. We had a girl and I'm going to probably assume that they knew that I was adult because I was, I mean, they were driving a car too, but

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I had my car and driving off

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all that, all that stuff. So like, it was just very, I'm interested

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playing.

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I need to look for these guys. And that's like the weird part and how society looks like you're 27 and

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you're hanging out with 19

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year olds. Is it weird? Yes. But it's a natural thing. I don't want to

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stop myself from

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having a conversation or a friendship with somebody younger than me. It shouldn't be that it should be natural. Is it weird? Yes, but at the same time it's not. I'm getting to know a person that's just younger than me. That's it. That is it. But I'm really happy that I stepped out my comfort zone into, cause I always said

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I wanted

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to When I seen people play tennis, I want to ask them if I can play, um, and I never did. And I felt so comfortable with them because of the age and because how, no, that's a little weird. I just felt comfortable because, yeah, let me just say, I felt comfortable because they were playing tennis. I would be playing tennis and that's it. There's nothing more. This is so funny to me. Would I want it to be more? Yes, because mind you, because

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I

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would be playing a game at the end of the day.. I want to play tennis with them. Because I get to do something that's therapeutic for me and it doesn't matter who it is. Round circle right now. It doesn't matter who I'm playing with. It doesn't matter the age. It shouldn't matter the age. I just need this game. I need this game in my life because it really helps me. It really gets me through knowing that I worked open the clothes and had no days off until today, until today. And I didn't want life hitting me and like, yes, I need the sleep and I will get the sleep, but I'm just like, I need something. And this was a sign for me to get that. I needed tennis today and I'm really happy that I had tennis.

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So shout out

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to those young adults and those young men and for playing with me today. If you guys see this.

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I'm

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just really happy that I got to do that with you guys and I really, really am happy. I don't want life hitting me where I can't do what I want and I can't put my energy into something that I love. But for tennis, that energy would definitely spring up and

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I will make sure

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that I play. So I'm really glad that I got out of my comfort zone in a very weird but cool way. I made friends.

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Very

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distant, cool friends. If I see them again, it's, is it weird? Is it weird? Then I'm like, Oh, It's

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me. You guys play tennis

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with me the first time. It's me again. Let's do it again. This time I would want to tell them about the, I'm just sharing with Shonda or following my social media. So when it is time to play again, I can just reach out to you guys and not look for you guys again. Very weird, but I'm a cool

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so I hope

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that, um, Makes sense. I hope that makes sense. I really feel that, um, today really helped me. It really did. And I'm really happy that I got to play tennis because tennis is my life. I really, really appreciate it. So yeah. Yes. Goal, I will try to find people who, no, I don't want to make that a

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thing. I was like, we're going to try to find

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people who's like my same age to play tennis. It's like, no, I don't want society to look at that as a problem, especially if I'm a cool person. I feel like somebody will see this and be like, that's what they all say.

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But I swear

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to goodness, I am a cool person. And, um, If I get to meet the parents. I meet the parents, so

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mind

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blowing, but I just want to hope you guys get what I'm saying. It shouldn't be. A weird thing. This, this shouldn't be a weird thing. I did it for the love of tennis and I needed it. Okay. I don't want to feel bad for hanging out with young kids playing my sport, our sport, the sport. This is like

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cringier by

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the second, but I'm glad I put it out there. This is like really tough. I'm glad that I did this. Well, wild, wild. Catch me on the tennis court guys. Catch me on the tennis court. I'm going to leave it at that. I thank you guys for tuning into another episode of I'm just sharing with Shonda. Please remember to rate, like, comment and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Apple, Spotify, and if you

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would like

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to comment, DM me, you can, um, And please tell me what you think about this. Please. I need some thoughts on this. Please, please email me at I'm just sharing pod at gmail. com. Thank you guys

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tuning into

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another episode of

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I'm just sharing with Shonda. I

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will see you in the next one. Peace.