Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 06.02.23

Today in Closing Remarks, Steve talks about his greatest loss.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right, hey, you know something on These are my
closing remarks today. I've discovered a lot over the years,
and there are some things you can make it without
in this world. It really is. I really didn't understand
how significant certain relationships were. But I'm old enough now

(00:45):
and a lot of you are where you can relate
to what I'm about to say. You can live your life.
You can lose some really really important things in your
life and survive. And all of us know that feeling
of losing someone that you cared deeply about, whether you
lose him because you all just were separate ways, or

(01:08):
you lose them because they passed. But we know the
pain of losing someone you loved dealing and I've discovered
something in my life. The greatest loss I ever had
was my mother. It was an unbearable pain for me.
I had never experienced anything like it and haven't experienced

(01:30):
anything like it since then. When I lost my father,
that was a pain. My mother's pain was first, though,
and it was just excruciating. I didn't know what to do.
I've lost my father, and then I lost my oldest brother.

(01:50):
That would really hurt me in a different way because
he had taught me everything. He taught me how to drive,
he taught me how to ride a bike, because he
did stuff because he was so much older than me
that my father allowed him to do. My father taught
me how to drive, but my brother taught me how
to you know, pimp drive. But he taught me how

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to ride a bike. He taught me how to talk
to girls, taught me how to save money. So that
loss was tragic. And I've lost a lot of things
in this way, and I've learned to live my life
without all of them. But the one thing that you
cannot live your life without, and that is a friend.

(02:38):
You can lose your mother, you can lose your brother,
you can lose your father, you can lose your job,
you can lose your wife, you can lose your husband, woof.
And these things can be debilitating, and you.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Can live in this world without.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Him, but he had not lived in this world without
a friend. You know, the Bible says a friend is
often closer than even a brother, because see, your friends
you pick and choose. Your family is just your family.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I loved my brother's dearly man flaws and all. I
loved him, But losing a friend, I've lost some really
dear friends. Juan Hull was a truly great friend of
mine that I lost. Greg Calhoun out of Montgomery was

(03:38):
the last, well not the last friend, but a great
friend that I lost. He was my best friend. And
then I lost my dear friend Flip Bass, who was
a founder of our chapter at a Kent State. And
losing them three men right there, man was really really
rough because they were dear to me. Thank God for

(04:00):
the friendships that I do have, because there is something
to it, man, to have a friend. I look at
all that I have. I look at the awards and
the accomplishments and plaques and all this stuff I have.
But you know what I value more than all of
those awards that I've gotten and everything. I value friendship

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more than that because friendships give a return, a constant return.
Somebody you can share your thoughts with. Man, Somebody that
you can be yourself with. Somebody that you can sit
around and they don't judge you. Somebody that you can
be around and they allow you to be just exactly
who you are, however and whenever and however you want

(04:46):
to present yourself at that time. And you need that, man,
because if you think about your work relationships, you have
to put on to come to work. Oftentimes we do.
We got to get up in the morning, no matter
how we feel. We got to put on a happy face.
Because we morn and drive people. We've got to get
up and put on the we okay today face because

(05:08):
we are responsible for millions and millions of people's attitude
on the way to work. We morn and drive people
in some days we don't feel like driving all morning,
but we got to come up in here. We got
to be a certain way you at work, Man, you
have to put on ass. You got to put on
a different mask to go to work. You know, you
got to fake the funk in front of them people.

(05:31):
You know, when you get in your department, you got
to put on that I'm the cheerful employee mask when
you don't be feeling them at all. You got to
go to lunch with them and sit next to them
in the cafeteria and pretend that they are right when
you when they really ain't even your type of people.
That's why you can't wait to get off so you

(05:52):
can just go be yourself again, because at work you can't.
So if you have a friend or several friends you
where you can sit around and be your natural self,
that's valuable. Man Cherish your friendships because when you lose them,
it's not a good day. Somebody once told me that

(06:14):
friendship is essential to the soul. I think that's a
true statement. I can't remember why somebody Anyway, y'all have
a great day.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
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