I ask a stranger how to make a friend at Venice beach #streetphotography

Single person at the bar. It looks sick. Excuse me, sir. I used to come here a long time ago. Do they still have the burlesque shows? No. What do they call them? They call them cat? Yeah. That was so fun. Can I take a photo of you? You look amazing. He looks good. Yes, I do like it. I'm going to interview you right now. Hold on one second. Let me get in your photo. Let me get in your shoot. Sure, let me get this guy first and then afterwards maybe we'll talk. What should I ask him? A few questions? Is he working here? Yeah, should we ask him like a... I got one. Is it cool if I ask you a question? What's that? I'm just going to ask you about life. I feel like you're a cool guy. You might have something cool to say. Alright, let's see. Does this work? Who are you? What's your name? My name is Curtis. And how did you get over here? What's life like for you? I can tell you I swim across, but no. Tell me a little bit about yourself, Curtis. I'm from Trinidad and Tobago. My bloodline runs from the first people, the indigenous people, which are from the Napoyo tribe. The indigenous people of Trinidad and Tobago. Don't hurt nobody. No, brother. Always. Okay, I want to ask you about friendship. How does one make a good friend? How do you make a good friend in life? You make a good friend when you know the truth and you are at peace. When you are at peace with yourself, you will make a good friend. Is it important to have good friends in life or maybe be alone? It's good to have someone, a good friend. The universe never makes you to be alone. What about you, my brother? What do you look for in a friend? What makes a good friend for you? Someone that knows the truth. Know the truth away from the lies that was taught. Because once you know the truth, you are at peace. Once I have a friend and they are at peace, which means they understand the universe. So, that's a good friend for me. I love it, my brother. Thank you so much. The best line. Can you do it again? Yeah, you want to say something about friendship? Friendship. Are you ready? Okay, wait, wait. No, no, no. Go ahead. You say it. So, for friendship to me is you respect the similarities and accept the differences. Well, you know, she said that, but the truth covers that. Once you know the truth, you'll have respect and you'll cherish the universe and you know the universe will give you what you give out there. So, if you give out positive things out there, you'll get a good friend because a good friend will come to you. She looks like a good friend right there. That's why we're together. We are. We're very good friends. Just go with it. Energy is great. Sometimes you don't have to know someone to know someone. Energy connects. I'm learning so much from you. I feel like I can teach a lot of people just from the stuff you have to say. That is good because a lot of people are being awakened right now and knowing the truth. Before, with all the lies, we didn't have a choice. This is what they put and we had to accept it. But now, knowledge is out there. And a lot of people are realizing, wait, these things are fairy tales. What they told us was fairy tales. And it is so simple. Once you know about the universe, it's simple. The trees share the same space as we. We don't own the place. The trees don't own. The universe is created for us to share space. Everything shares space. But the human being is the only thing that is created that takes more than they need. The tree takes only the space. The animal only kills what it wants to eat. But the human being... ...eats twice as much. You know, the roots of all of the plants, especially since this is not connected to the ground, they all share water and information. So whenever one gets water, in the network system of the other plants, they also get water. So they take what they need and then they give it to the rest of the network, which is so cool. It only takes what it needs. Everything else, besides the human, only takes what it needs. And that's how it's supposed to be. That's a very good point. So many people are so greedy. You know, sometimes I take people to nature and they don't like it. And I'm like, how could you not like it? The truth is hard for people who live in lies to accept. Cognitive dissonance. People who live in lies for so long that they fear to deal with the truth. Because they've been in lies so long, they feel more safe to stay in the lies. But they don't know the truth will always be glorious. I'll use an example. If you've been walking in the middle of the street for years, and I come and I tell you, I say, walk on the sidewalk, a car is going to knock you down. You're going to tell me, I've been walking in the street here for how much years? Right? But you didn't realize, if it's not today, or not five years from now, a car is going to knock you down. That's right. Your internal biases stop you from opening your mind. That's how my family is. It's just the lies. The lies, because they make us see what they want us to see, and not what is. We were all there. We all get fed the lies. That's why I don't like you. I hate you. You hate me. Why? And we are all one. We are all one. We are spirit. If this fall off. Have you heard of Rumi? Have you heard of the Rumi quote? Rumi is Jalal al-Din. He's a Persian Afghan poet. He said, my whole life I thought I was me, but no, I was you and never knew it. Isn't that so powerful? Like I never knew that I was you and you were me. Because we are one. We are one. We are spirit. You are here to get the illusion of separateness out of your life. You must believe in reincarnation as well, right? I know about the afterlife. Because? I don't say reincarnation, but I know about the afterlife. Me too. You're not great because you don't know anything. You're too great because you know too much. Have you any experience in that? I mean like out of body experience or something like that? Yeah, I think yes. Yes, we try not to go that deep.