Facing Fears with Bethany Hamilton — Transcript

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1. 0:00there is more to my life than i could
2. 0:02understand
3. 0:03in that moment and as painful and as
4. 0:06upside down as it felt i also knew
5. 0:09that there was good to come i didn't
6. 0:12want to lose this passion and joy
7. 0:14and this life that i you know i was in
8. 0:18the water every day i didn't want to
9. 0:19just let it go
10. 0:21and i think i realized too that
11. 0:24my love for surfing outweighed my fear
12. 0:27of sharks so
13. 0:28i wanted to get out there and give it a
14. 0:30go and surfing has taught me almost more
15. 0:32than anything
16. 0:33else in life it's just taught me so many
17. 0:35life lessons
18. 0:36um but the ocean can be so frustrating
19. 0:40at times and it's wanting to be you down
20. 0:42and send you back to the beach and just
21. 0:45frustrate the heck out of you
22. 0:48and but then there's always that like
23. 0:51longing desire for that next like
24. 0:53amazing wave that just gives you the
25. 0:55most incredible high
26. 0:58and it's just such a beautiful feeling
27. 1:00so
28. 1:01that kind of propels you to like push
29. 1:04past those pain
30. 1:05pain moments you never know when your
31. 1:08next success is
32. 1:09kind of like you can will your success
33. 1:12as much as you want but a lot of times
34. 1:14you just have to keep putting along
35. 1:16until it happens sometimes the ocean too
36. 1:19it's like
37. 1:20you'll have an incredible wave coming at
38. 1:22you but it's also kind of scary
39. 1:25so there's that moment of like i have to
40. 1:27choose to overcome this fear i'm feeling
41. 1:30right now
42. 1:30and the reward on the other side is like
43. 1:33gonna be amazing
44. 1:35and so like throughout my life like just
45. 1:39learning to deal with those fears that i
46. 1:42have
47. 1:42and recognizing them and not letting
48. 1:44them over consume me
49. 1:46but kind of weighing
50. 1:50the pros and cons throughout that fear
51. 1:52and then
52. 1:53knowing what can be on the other side if
53. 1:55i can let it go
54. 1:57or push past it
55. 2:10you