Okay, so a young person who wants to ask the question, okay.
Hi, my name is Cameron. And I have a question. So, I'll miss Monet. He said to find your group and the people who like empower you and bring you up. I want to know how long it took you to find that group of those people who empowered you and lifted you up.
You just touched my heart. Through voice so you said Cameron Schumann? Yes, Cameron, but at the light to meet you. The light it is to me it took me it took me leaving Kansas City, Kansas, which I have my friend move there. But when I knew that i i for what it was. I felt like I needed to do I needed to be uncomfortable meaning I had to get outside of my comfort zone and who I knew my cousins and my friends and family members who are there for me, right? But I had to go find my people. Meaning if I was going to become this person who else was thinking like, who else were into the things that I was in now, not who I was in the past, or where I was now. So I moved to New York City started performing arts at the American musical and dramatic Academy, and I met a lot of weirdos just by me. Just like me. It's sometimes I didn't always feel comfortable when I was with you know, your hometown being the weird person that you are and I say this with like, so much love and admiration for for for for us. And I'm not saying that like you know, anybody should look at the word weird as being lame. is cool. So if anybody calls you that just No. I'm cool. And so it took me honoring my weird and then started to they started to see me embracing and I started to see them embracing their uniqueness and I felt comfortable in that I felt comfortable with honoring who I was now. And, you know, sometimes it might take time, you know? I didn't always feel like that in elementary school middle school I remember being teased and picked on ARM used to go thrift store shopping. When sometimes people were wearing like the the most popular name brand stuff. If I couldn't afford that what I would do the whole goal. Find some things at the first door mix and match. I will borrow my cousin's clothes, whatever it was. Sometimes I felt left out ostracized. But no even in those moments, if you haven't met you, you have not met. Like you have friends now, but you're gonna have so many more friends. You know what I mean? Like your life. However you want to design and how have you dreamed it up? It can be what you want it to be. And you will meet people all around the world, all around the world. That will be become your people, become your community. So just keep honoring who you are. And I think those things will it be specific about what you want to who you want to be? Around is specific, you can be choosy. Make friends out of all of us.
