Aware & Aggravated - 47. Life Unlocks After You Contemplate Ending It

Episode Date: July 20, 2025

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Not all meals are created equal. For instance, breakfast has the spicy egg with muffin for a limited time and lunch doesn't. McDonald's breakfast goes first. Hi friends, somebody sent me a Birkin. I decided to start the episode with that. I can't get over it. Can't believe it. It's an ostrich Birkin.

It's vintage. I like my brain can't compute this very nice gift. Thank you. So bad. I no longer feel imposter syndrome when I tell you all my analogy of don't give a Birkin to a crackhead. That's when you give yourself to somebody who don't appreciate or understand and can't recognize your value

It's like giving a Birkin to a crackhead. They don't understand the value of this type of bag It is gonna throw it around beat it up and trash it That's what people do with you when they can't appreciate you and then you start to question yourself Am I a Birkin or am I just a Walmart bag that a crackhead got handed? You know, don't ever question your value, you a goddamn Birkin. And an ostrich went at that. I just had to start the video with this because holy shit, we got a Birkin.

Also one more thing I wanna throw out, pre-orders for merch are live and I didn't post the episode last week. Sorry, gurra, I didn't have nothing to say. My soul didn't wanna talk. I tried to record a couple episodes. Nothing wanted to come out, but pre-orders, there's already 8,000 orders

So I've been losing my mind. Absolutely For the past couple days So everything's on pre-order right now and there's already 8,000 orders. I thought I was gonna get like 2,000 the amount of inventory I got an order. Whoo. I have a meeting tomorrow with my manufacturers But if you want to order anything order it and everything will ship in like two three weeks. I have a meeting tomorrow with my manufacturers, but if you want to order anything, order it. And everything will ship in like two, three weeks. I'll keep you posted. I'll keep you updated, but I'll link it in the description

where you can go shop. LeoSkeppyCollection.com. Oh, I just had to get that out and let you know. So many things to celebrate and so many things I want to talk about. I don't even really know where I want to go. I just want to talk. Like I'm happy.

I want to hang out with you. I want to talk and like speak a little about What's the name? How do you say like suicide? These guidelines I'm gonna have to talk and dance around them, but there's such a gift and Not wanting to be here, you know what I'm saying? I just can't speak around. I can't say certain things online.

They'll bam me, take me down forever. So I've been like at that brink of not wanting to be here a lot of different times in my life where it was just all bad. Then it got real good, then real bad. And it felt like everything was just gone to shit. And the whole thing of like trying to force yourself to feel better and all that, I get it fully. And I just, I feel like there's something

that wants to come out around this topic. So I kind of just want to talk about it. But the biggest thing I've learned, okay, the Birkin, perfect timing to have this sitting here with me. We just gonna hang out with it. We just gonna hold it a little. But this is like a superficial thing. Like it's just a material item. Yeah, you can still appreciate it and love it. But okay, let me put you down. I don't want to be like yelling in your ear.

But in life, when you don't have like secure connections with people, you attach to material objects. And I understand that whole like dynamic. I've talked about it before in episodes, but this is going to go all over the dynamic. I've talked about it before in episodes but this is going to go all over the board. I don't even know where we're going with it but basically when you're up against not wanting to be here anymore, wanting to unalive, you see no hope, no point, no nothing. That moment is something that I now see as such a gift and I always saw it as such a curse because once you have that thought of opting out of this life, it revisits you.

Every single time you have something bad happen to you and I've never heard nobody talk about this so I wanna do it so you don't feel so crazy. It's like your safety net. You know, if it gets bad enough, there's a way out. It becomes a weird, twisted, fucked up comfort that other people do not understand. But it's also, as a safety net, it's such a freeing thing.

Because from my life, when I've been at points where I wanted to not be here no more, I didn't care about taking certain risks. And that's exactly what got me out of being suicidal. How do I say it without getting in trouble? But with that safety net thing, like the thought of it coming back every time things get bad or like anytime you even start getting worried or doubtful,

it's like you feel like you're falling back into that place. It's just your brain's way of finding relief from what you're going through is what I've learned in life. Like I used to start to freak out every time I would start to contemplate it again. Like the idea would just pop back up into my head after I was doing okay for a minute. I feel like I'm falling back into a certain hole or like a certain mindset. I'm like, oh great, we're back here. And like that thought will come back up of like opting out. And I don't think that's something that will ever go away. It's like, once your brain has found that piece of relief,

there's nothing like it. There is nothing that will touch that just overwhelming piece that you feel when that thought crosses your mind, when you're going through something catastrophic. Or you just do not want to be here. Like if depression gets a hold of you, if your life's falling apart, if things just ain't going right, as someone who's had my life fall apart multiple, many a time, I get it.

But don't freak out. I don't know why I want to say that. Like don't freak the fuck out if you have that thought come up. Just look at it. It's kind of like my alarm bell now when I haven't had this thought or this feeling in a few months. At the beginning of the year, awful bad. I already fucking told you about all this.

I've been telling you about it for the past few months of episodes. But a big part of that thought kind of coming up and like actually finding peace in it is I've, I've learned it's like a big sense of isolation. Like you've never had anyone to help you or be there for you. And you don't feel like anyone can help you get out of it. You don't feel like anyone can make you want to be here anymore. You don't think anyone has the power to fix it. Like I've been at periods where I thought God turned his back on me and I felt like

he was just intentionally not fixing it. Like if he was as powerful as everybody fucking says, where's the help girl? Like what the fuck is the point? He's not going to intervene. I've always said this, the teacher is silent during the test, but typically what I've learned from my experience is when you get that, like to that point where you find relief in the thought of not being here, your life as you know it needs to be let go of.

That's what you need to let go of. Part of you has to die. How you've been living has to die fully. And you can't have like magic happen. You can't have life get good when you're living away and like doing things in a way where you're not meant to do it. Like when I was nursing, when I was a nurse,

I was fucking miserable. That's not the life path I'm meant to have. So a lot of times like life, everybody has a purpose and their soul is like, your soul is dragging you toward what you are meant to be doing. But if you are not in alignment, I hate that everybody says alignment doesn't alignment that, but it's the fucking truth, okay?

It's the truth. Your soul is dragging you to alignment. And when you do something that's not what you're meant to be doing, your emotional system, you wanting to pull your hair out, don't end up like me bald. That's not what happened. But being miserable is your sign. Change something. And I'm not talking like, oh, you're just a little uncomfortable, but you're working toward a goal. If it's something you actually want, you push through, right? But it's like that dread, that misery, that like, I don't want to get

out the fuck of bed. Yeah, that. no, you're not meant to be doing it. Like the way that I was living my life earlier this year when I was talking about my whole addiction to cocaine and how I was using that substance to force through things, you're not meant to force shit. If it feels forced, don't do it. And I've been living like that. And I'm happier than ever. I've been having more success than ever. You got to get out of the way of things being lined up for you. That's like the hardest thing and scariest thing for me because I was,

like I said with the whole, when the suicidal ideation comes up, it's like a pure hopelessness and you feel like you only have yourself to rely on. Nobody's going to save you. No one's going to help you. And when you go around life, you think no one's gonna help you, be there for you, it's fixed, nothing's gonna go in your favor, nothing's gonna line up for you, nothing's easy for you. That's how I felt for so long.

But that's because I was over here thinking I knew everything. I'm over here trying to force through things. It's like, girl, just let Jesus take the wheel. Is that what that song is? Jesus take the wheel. Yeah, yeah, take your hands off, put on cruise control song is? Jesus take the wheel. Yeah, yeah. Take your hands off. Put on cruise control.

Let your soul put the cruise control on and take you where you need to go. You push the little gas here and there when you need to. You hit the brake, you hit the gas. Yeah, you might help turn a little bit, but you gotta just let your soul just drive you there. That's not even the point of all this, is it? There is no fucking point.

We just talking. So I also want to talk about with like that safety net of like the thought popping up. And if you've been to the point of not wanting to be here, you were broken open. And that's one thing I want to point out. There is a clear distinction in people of who has been up against suicidal thoughts and who hasn't. There's such a difference in the type of people.

There's a level of strength that's different, but it's just like a perspective on life. And when you're broken open like that, you are molded and taught exactly how to be connected to people. You are taught to value connection over all other shit. Like yeah, I have my Birkin. The person who sent it to me, I'm more connected to. That's the important thing.

It's just like a reflection of the connection. But this like material stuff, you appreciate it and you have fun with life. Like me over here excited about this. Woo. Like you feel the emotions. You feel happy. Cause like yesterday, you didn't know if it was your last day. It teaches you how to live. It teaches you how to be grateful. It teaches you how to like feel moments and feel experiences. It's ain't even about the Birkin. Don't make it superficial like that. But me sharing my joy on Tik Tok and Instagram and just like going through life,

having a good time, sharing the anger, sharing the happy, sharing the everything. This whole pattern of like getting up against those thoughts, it breaks you open to experiencing life. And I know that's like a weird like silver lining, never silver lining, gold lining way to look at it. But it's the truth. It teaches you how to live and it teaches you how to connect to people. It teaches you what's important in this life. And I don't think there's anything that's stronger to really wake you up and break you

the fuck open to what this life is supposed to be, which is experienced and felt. You're supposed to feel this life. And every moment, like it teaches you how to appreciate things. And also, something I've been learning about my personality and people's personalities around me, when you've been through real bad shit, and you've been through an abusive type thing,

you've been through abuse, you've almost been like killed, if there's certain things that happen in life, you've been through an abusive type thing. You've been through abuse. You've almost been like killed. If there's certain things that happen in life, you've been through extreme danger, like abusive things, whatever that teaches you such an appreciation for life too. It's like, it's so weird how everybody's always focused on the negative of when bad things happen, what it does to you, it traumatizes you. You got to heal from that. It breaks you the fuck open. That's what I've learned to accept and realize is like,

I'm only able to be as happy as I am because I've not thought I was gonna be alive tomorrow at certain times and I've truly felt it and I've not wanted to be here. So like, it's like a bittersweet thing where it breaks you open to actually experiencing life and experiencing the happy. And the thing I wanna talk about with the personality types,

let me get back on track with that. People who have been through a lot, like they're the funniest people. Sorry, like every comedian is like fucked up. They've been through something bad. But also, if you look at most of the big personalities online, like if you look at the show Mob Wives, all them bitches tracked out crazy,

but they're funny because they've got that element of like, they've seen danger like that. They've had their life be at risk. They've had people taken from them in the blink of an eye. And I'm sure everybody watching this, everybody can relate. If you relate to what I say, you've seen the dark side of life. Well, it's seen you. It's dragged you into it. But we funny as hell. Ha ha, we are, we have a good time. Like we will piss ourselves laughing

going to the grocery store. Like when I'm out doing things with my sister, we have a hoot, we have a good time. It's like, it kind of breaks open the element of your personality where you just don't give a fuck. Like truly, you just have fun. It's like you see the little moments in life, it's like okay whoo. Yeah, there's a big level of unsafety, but it's like living inside of a cage. Life outside of a cage is scarier than life inside

of a cage. And if you imagine being out in a field, like just imagine being like in the middle of a safari and there's like lions and tigers and bears, oh my. There's like elephants and shit, there's wildlife, there's critters, there's little scorpions. I don't know where the fuck are we at? I'm just painting a scene, I don't know. But imagine being out in a field with all the danger in life, you don't know what it is

and you're like there's a big giant cage around you where nothing can get you. You feel safe because you're in a cage, but you're trapped in a cage. You don't have freedom. A lot of people are obsessed with the idea of freedom, but if you take that cage off, you got to face the lions, the tigers, the bears, everything around in the fucking desert, wherever we're at. I don't know where I painted this scene, but you get what I'm saying.

In order to be free, you have to face the damage, the destruction, the fear, all the bad things that could fuck you up, or just sit there in the cage. It takes a certain type of person to live life without a cage, and this can also go for routines and mindsets and jobs and certain structures and self punishment. Certain mindsets can be a cage too because imagine you just let yourself off the leash

mentally. What the fuck would you turn into? Life without that cage, life without that leash tied around yourself is absolutely terrifying and it takes very, very strong people to be able to live outside of that cage. Everybody's obsessed with freedom. No, it's like everybody says everybody want to be Fetty Wap. Nobody want to lose an eye. Everybody want to be free. Nobody wants to face what's outside the cage. There's also happiness outside the cage, but you got to be like a certain type of person to be able

to withstand it and handle it. And if you've been up against suicide and you've been up against really destructive shit in your life, you're the type of person who's been broken open to handle it and you're not gonna get it. You're not gonna think about it. You're not gonna see it. But I also don't want it to be like a thing where I'm saying, oh, you've been forged

to be strong enough. It's not that you have to go fight through life. You just have to be strong enough to handle anything. And the level of strength that we have, if you relate to things that I say, the level of strength we have is not something that we have to exude. We're just normally naturally strong people.

We look at other people, we're like, how the fuck can you not deal with that? I don't get it. That's a level of strength that we have that's just forged in us, it's a part of us. So I want this to be a level of strength that we have that's just like forged in us. It's a part of us. So I want this to be a bit of encouragement, but also the example with the cage thing, anybody who's living outside the cage, anybody living outside of any kind of like societal norms and just like normal hit.

Yeah, it's terrifying, really bad, but everybody's funny. That's doing it. Like everybody's truly living who's outside of the cage, but it's not all gumdrops and roses. It's guns and roses. It is, it is. Birkins and roses. Also, one more thing I wanna talk about

is like the perspective of what matters. When you've like dealt with wanting to not be here no more, oh my God, it's hard. It's real difficult when you're around people who don't have the like same priorities as you, where certain things mean a lot to other people and you see people chase certain things and you're like, girl, it's empty, but you can't tell them that. If someone has a desire for something, you can't talk them out of it. You just have to help them get there and then they'll open their eyes. They'll wake up to it. There's no change in somebody's mind about something that they want.

That's the funny thing about desires, because there are certain things that I've wanted that my perspective changed once I got it, that you couldn't have talked me out of doing it like I had to experience it. I wanted it. But that's what's hard is after you've been like broken open to life and you can feel it and you're excited and you can like recognize other people, you're broken open for connection. You realize how void this life is of people who are capable of actual connection. People are chasing so much shit that don't make no sense.

Genuinely, it doesn't. And I don't know why I wanna talk about this, but it's like going out and going to clubs and going to party. When me and my friend group go to party, we going to party. We're not going to hook up with nobody. That's something that irritates the fucking shit out of me

is people who are so overrun by wanting to hook up. Like you go out with certain guys and all they wanna do is find girls. It's like if they go home without a girl at the end of the night, their self-esteem is like shot, they're miserable. They had an awful time. It doesn't matter they spent so much at the section.

It doesn't matter who was there and what fun they had. They weren't having fun. They were going out on a mission. When I go out, I wanna go party. I wanna have a good time. I'm not over here trying to get my diddle-fiddled. I don't wanna deal with that. I play with it myself.

I got friends with that. I'm just not someone that's in the hookup culture and I don't understand it. I don't understand how sexual desires can be so strong to get people so out of character and get people so blind where they don't enjoy life. All they want to do is like hook up. It is sex is an addiction. I understand that. But there's been periods in my life way back when where I would hook up and do my thing. But I don't understand

the whole being overrun by it. And I feel like that's something you only understand after you've been broken open. Like you see that it's empty. You see so many things as empty and it's like watching people go around. It's like, y'all so fucking boring. I wanna go have a time. I want everybody I'm with to have fun.

We're gonna get drunk. We're gonna party. We're gonna dance. We're gonna have fun. Like I wanna go have experiences. I wanna go experience life. Like I don't care about the hidden motives. I don't like that shit.

Like I don't have fun with people who are just going to fuck. Like I don't like that. I don't like being around you. Go away, because you come back in a pissy little mood because you got rejected. That's something that bothers me a lot is like the whole sex thing.

I don't have like a desire for it or a drive for it incessantly like other people. Like I'm not sexually uncontrolled. And I'm not meaning to like shade anybody when I say this. It's something I genuinely don't understand. And I think it's because my life is so exciting in so many other ways I don't need that for excitement like to go hook up with somebody I've got people in my DMS all the time. I've got all the porn stars in my fucking DMS It's like I don't know if it's I know I can get it if I want it that makes me not really care But also like I have so much fun with life. I

Don't know what it is. Like I think there's much fun with life. I don't know what it is. Like I think there's some kind of advantage I don't see. That's why I don't look at people too harsh when I judge them about it. Cause I'm like, it's empty, but like, that's your lesson to learn. I don't know. Like it's just empty shit and I don't like that.

But this whole topic, like when I do something superficial, it's for fun. It's to experience it. When I go buy some stupid shit, woo, because we're going to have fun. I want to enjoy having it, enjoy wearing it. I don't use things as like a crutch, how like people need designer shit

to feel good about themselves. I don't wear logo clothing on my day to day. I wear a black tank top, these sweatpants, you've seen them in every video, this is my uniform, and I wear Timberlands. I don't wear nothing flashy logo clothes, I wear gold jewelry because I like it. But my whole self esteem is not dependent

on designer logos and fashion, like there's some people who are annoying about it. I appreciate it though, like I love designer clothes, I love the fuck-unis of it. Like it's fun. It's a good time. But like, is that all you got? Like most of the people you go out, people with Birkin's, they's boring. They's real fucking boring. Like they have no substance to them. They have like no life. They just like buy this thing to be associated with high status and luxury and they think it makes them important. They think having something that is so sought after

and desired makes them more interesting. It doesn't. I don't give a fuck who you are if you got a Birkin. I want to go have a good time. If you ain't capable of that, I'm bored. And that's the type of people I can't be around. Anybody who's boring, I don't like it. Let's go have fun. Let's have some deep conversations. Let's talk about some twisted shit. People will also with sense of humor.

Yeah, you could tell people sense of humor who ain't been through nothing. They'd be offended. They'd be all upset. I make jokes about everything. It's a good time. My sense of humor is like twisted and fucked up, but it's also like, I think it all plays into it.

I don't know. What else do I wanna talk about? I don't think I have too much else to say, honestly. Let me check with myself. I'm checking with my soul real quick. You got nothing else to say? That was all. I'm going to Miami soon Soon. Next week. I'm

so excited. I'm so fucking excited. Really bad. That's like a big update with my life. Also, this just that okay, the Miami thought just like trickled me into thinking of this. There's so much more life to live. I've thought at certain points in my life, I've seen it all. I've seen most, not as far as I've seen every place in life, but I've seen the nightlife. I've hung out with the celebrities. I've done the famous shit. I've done the events. I've done everything. And I've traveled a lot of places and it's kind of like the same shit once you see it enough times.

It's like you go to somewhere chopper, you go to the nightclubs, you go to where it's like if you're seeking something more through that, it's going to feel empty. But like if you just go to experience it at the time, but I've been in that whole spiral of like, I feel like I've seen it all. Like what more could happen? I've made money. I've lost money. I've made money. I've lost money. I've made money again. Like I've, at certain points in my life, been like,

is this all? Like I don't see a reason to keep going. There's so many more than you can even fathom. And as soon as you start to question that, as soon as you have that thought come in your head, is this it? That is the moment you do a 180. You go somewhere completely different, a whole different direction. That's what I've learned. You're at that point of like asking that question

because you've walked down a certain path, you're not meant to go down, turn the fuck around, go pick a different one. Uh-uh, you're not thinking that, you're not doing that. There's so much more life to live. And I've been an arrogant asshole. It's not even like arrogance. I've been so depressed, hopeless.

I'm like, is this all? Yeah, there's so much more life to live. There's so many more things to do. Much, much more. Oh my God. And I finally feel excited about going to Miami and like go and see what the hell happens. But like this time I'm going with the intention to move.

So yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen, but I feel like excited and I feel like it's a, how do you say, much more life to live. I feel like I'm going to see some things and I've already started meeting people, which is weird. Like the connections I've been making recently are nuts. It's like everybody who needed this distance or scoot has scooted and people who needed to like fill in, filled in. Oh, that's, I guess one more thing I do wanna talk about.

But I don't, I don't wanna talk about it. My soul does, but I don't. Okay, we talking about it. Oh. Okay. One thing I learned recently is the only way Oh, okay. One thing I learned recently is the only way to be able to love freely when you have a lot of love to give is for someone to invest in you first. That's what I've learned. When I meet people, I love really hard.

I love really, really hard. And just like the way that I care about friends, people in general, like partners, you got to invest big time with me at the same time or first. I feel safer actually that I've learned because my friend who sent me this, now I have zero reservation around loving as hard as I love. It's a weird thing with people in the past. I've always been the one who does more, gives more, is more, shows up more in every single way.

I've been meeting people recently who are doing so much more for me. And I'm realizing I don't feel unsafe with it. I feel free. I feel free. I feel free to love you just genuinely how I do when I think of you and I want to buy you something stupid or I want to see you or just I think about you, I'm texting you, I'm calling you, like whatever it is that I want to do for people and how I want to love them and

care for them. I always felt like I had to hold back, like I had to manage and govern what was fair. And I didn't want to overextend myself because every time I've overextended myself to people who couldn't do the same for me back, I felt fucked over. I felt like I gave too much. I felt stupid. So now it's like I'm realizing, no, it is nice to be invested in. It is nice to have people who can love at your level and do more for you.

I don't feel anxious about it. I feel safe and relaxed to love you how I just normally would. I feel safe to be genuine with you and not have to hold back my heart and hold back certain things because I don't want to look at it like I'm being taken advantage of when I don't get shit in return. I'm done feeling stupid. So as soon as I kind of got to that point, universe is like here, it's like chucking me all these people who are doing so much for me where it's like, I

feel so goddamn calm, how I can just genuinely be myself because I'm not over here worried about fucking myself over by giving so much to somebody who won't appreciate it or who won't do anything in return. So it's not even just about the Birkin, it's kind of like a symbolic thing. And it's not just about money. It's like showing up for people and being there for them. Because my time and energy is very expensive,

very expensive. And I'm not just saying financially. Like my energy and my time, what I can do and put it into myself, I could change my life in like 30 seconds with I'm being so dramatic. Not really. I could change my life pretty fucking quick. So for me to give any attention and effort and like money even to other people, I'm taking a lot from my life to give to yours.

If you can't give to mine, what the fuck are we doing here? That's what I've learned to realize is like, my energy is the most expensive. Because if I'm not happy, if I'm not like energized, I can't do what I'm supposed to do with life. So yeah, that's just one thing I wanted to point out. Let people invest in you, big time. But I don't fall into that thing of like feeling like,

Oh, I feel guilty. I feel in debt to people because I trust when I give things to people, it's just out of genuine, like appreciation love. Like I just want to do it. I don't expect things in return, but I had to break that whole dynamic of like thinking everything was a transaction and for someone to give me something I felt uncomfortable. I did say it a couple episodes ago when I bought this other bangle. This is my receiving era. I'm gonna receive some shit. I've been doing enough. I've been putting out enough. Being there for everybody. Time for me. And boom, here comes the broken.

Also 8,000 orders of merch. I can't wrap my mind around it. Still. Thank y'all so bad. Like, holy shit. I'm like, I don't have words. Like, I can't articulate nothing yet. I'm giving like, stupid about that whole thing. Just know I'm very, very appreciative. More than I can explain in words. But that's it, I think, for this episode. That's all I got to say.

So, if you wanna get the merch, you wanna pre-wade it, I'll put it in the description. But leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of this episode. I never typically ask that, but I am curious. Like I want to see like if it made sense and like what you guys think about it. But also we're going to have to comment an emoji.

Let's comment an orange because because I gotta have our kin. They come in an orange box, so. That's the emoji for this week. If you made it all the way to the end, comment the orange emoji. But that's it, love you so bad. Everybody be safe, take care of yourself, and I'll talk to you guys next Sunday.

Oh my God, I'm so happy. Not all meals are created equal. For instance, breakfast has the spicy egg McBuffin for a limited time, and lunch doesn't. McDonald's breakfast comes first.