When I was in the sixth grade（等级）, my friends and I, at such a pivotal（关键的） moment in our lives, realized how bored we were. There was a lack（缺乏） of excitement（兴奋） in our adventures. We had found that we had done everything we could possibly（可能地） think of to fill in an empty space of time. We'd have sleepovers, play video games, watch movies, walk around the neighborhood（街区）, and even after all of this, we were still bored. And the worst part about this was that we knew that other kids felt the same thing too. So after talking and discussing amongst（在…之中（among）） ourselves, we realized that as much as we tried to fix our boredom（ 厌烦）, we weren't doing anything substantial（大量的） about it.

  That's why we decided that we wanted to make（使） people laugh. We wanted to make funny videos that joked about things that no one really joked about. We wanted to joke about our quirky, quiet town of Alton, Texas（德克萨斯州（美国州名））. Now, I'd love to tell you that I'm here to share that my videos have millions of views and that I've sold tons（吨） of merchandise（商品） worldwide（在全世界）. But unfortunately, like many of the ideas that we have, we never made our videos, our idea, a reality（现实）. I know right now there's probably at least one of you who's like（喜欢）, man, this guy's depressing（压抑的）.

  Is he going to keep talking like this? But there's a reason. As time went on, more and more of us left the group until eventually（终于） all of us left the group. All of us except（除了） for one. My friend couldn't let go of his idea. So after we all left in the sixth grade, he decided to make a team.

  Members would come in and leave out, fluctuate（变动）. He learned how to use complex（复杂的） computer software（ 软件） and he learned how to work with cameras. He would make videos on drama, comedy, things here and there. And I didn't know any of this because I hadn't seen or talked to him in six years. My friend, the one who never gave up on his idea, has now launched（发射） his own videography company. Like him and the rest of the world, we all have tons of ideas every day.

  And there was something different about him because six years ago, my group of friends and I, we all had the same idea, but he was the only one who actually saw it through. How many of you ever feel a drive inside of you that tells you take a chance? What if? Why not? For many of us, while we're sitting down at work, eating lunch or waiting to drift（漂流） off to sleep, we get a sense of that feeling, that drive that we had.