David Idemudia reflects on the emotional weight of the preceding addiction monologue, offering an impromptu group breathing exercise to ground the audience. He articulates how addiction and mental illness disrupt lives and expresses gratitude for the shared humanity present in the room.
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[02:44:32] To make it time
[02:44:39] Hit those, Jen, hit those lights.
[02:44:51] Is he gonna be okay?
[02:44:56] Oh, you should.
[02:44:58] I hope so.
[02:44:59] Okay.
[02:45:01] Wow.
[02:45:01] I honestly thought he was gonna bring him on stage
[02:45:05] and we were about to see something.
[02:45:06] We were praying not to ever see.
[02:45:11] But I think that was such a powerful metaphor
[02:45:15] for how addiction and mental illness just claims lives,
[02:45:21] how it just interrupts everyone’s day-to-day,
[02:45:24] how it anchors us to our beds or to our homes,
[02:45:28] and just to see that visualization,
[02:45:31] for me, scary as fuck.
[02:45:33] I’m not gonna lie.
[02:45:34] I’m not gonna lie.
[02:45:35] He got me.
[02:45:36] He got me good.
[02:45:37] But to see that realization,
[02:45:40] I just know that there are so many other people
[02:45:43] who experience this,
[02:45:44] and I’m just happy to know
[02:45:46] that we can all be in the same room together,
[02:45:49] rejoice, connect over our struggles, our humanity.
[02:45:55] So again, if you guys need to breathe,
[02:45:58] we gonna breathe together.
[02:46:00] We gonna breathe.
[02:46:01] But just don’t forget this message here.
[02:46:05] Can we do a deep breath real quick?
[02:46:09] And hold.
[02:46:12] Exhale slow.
[02:46:15] That was a lot.
[02:46:19] Oh, why you gonna take the list?