The speaker argues that feeling good is your responsibility alone, not anyone else's. He claims emotions can be tasted and sensed through all five senses, and that a depressed person's mood can feel like a burden to those around them. Your job is to cultivate your own well-being.
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you could taste love. And when you feel good, you can— that you can apply— people can feel it in all 5 senses. They can feel it when you walk in the room. They can feel it when you leave out of the room. You ever had a super negative, always down, always sick, always depressed person leave from your presence? It's always like a weight came off for you. You're like, I hope they be all right. Oh, I'm glad they go. Don't be that burden on people. Do what you need to do to feel good. And understand this, Please understand this, it's your job to make you feel good. It ain't nobody else's job to make you feel good. Feeling good is an inside job. It's not your kids' job, it's not your husband's job, your wife's job, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your mom. It's not nobody else's job to make you feel good.