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(uplifting music)

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<v ->Making my life count I think is</v>

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somehow finding a way to give

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a voice to the voiceless through arts

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and education and figuring a way

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that my voice can add to that conversation

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is something that I'm striving for.

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There's so much good that I think is inherit

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with what it means to just go about our daily lives

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and go about our daily business

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and we fixate, unfortunately, on the negative

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and that way we need art

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and we need moments of levity and education

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to sort of like wrap our heads around

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this insane kind of world

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cause we're just trying to make it up as we go along.

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<v ->Gustavus provides a lot of platforms</v>

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for figuring out who and what I might need to be,

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want to be, what I could become

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and I've joined a social justice theater group

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and I was on a football team

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and I was in a choir

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and I was learning about histories

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and learning about what stories I represent

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and what stories I've been made to represent.

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In the Gustie way of like being a Gustie

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and that sort of transcending all reality.

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Once I left Gustavus, I had to really do that again

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and trying to explain that

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so I just sort of tried to become something

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that was of excellence

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and that was of creativity and striving.

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Maria Tierney gave me the option.

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She opened up the door.

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I had again a liberal arts education.

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My general requirements were things like

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poetry and anthropology, religion

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and so I had to take some sort of art credit

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and it was between drawing and dance

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and I couldn't draw so I decided to take a dance class

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fundamentals of modern and got in touch with my body

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and as an athlete I was already, you know,

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thinking I was in touch with my body.

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So then I took the next course

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and at one point I don't even know it just happened

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Stans, I think she was just like off the cuff

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she's like you should think about doing this

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and I was like I should think about doing what?

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And she was like dance

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and at that time I had no idea that dance

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could even be a career and be a profession

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and so again in that naive sensibility

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I was like alright and declared a major

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and that's what happened.

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Maria Tierney just gave me the option

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where I didn't have it before.

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I'm Brian J. Evans and I'm a Gustie.

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Gustavus Adolphus College

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Make your life count.