who has a burn in here a scratch a scar
Wow okay
scarred teen let’s go so my story is
about in the 19 years that I’ve lived so
far I’ve gotten so many injuries where I
stopped keeping track I stopped counting
I just accepted them as it is it hurts a
lot it really does you could either put
Colgate toothpaste run ice-cold water on
a put frozen towel or pretend it’s not
there because that’s the best thing to
do right sometimes you can look and you
can see a scar that wasn’t there and now
it’s there and you don’t know what to do
when I was 15 I was cooking before I had
my chef’s skills here at school taught
to me I was risking fish on a hot
skillet you know what happens with oil
and water right I didn’t put the fish
away from me put towards me and if you
could see me on that day I was like in a
mirror right here a whole chest felt
like the devil himself slapped my chest
even before that I was six when I was
scorched with oil
my sister was cooking chorizo for me my
dad laughed my mother helped but in the
end he comforted me in my pain to sleep
ever since that I was bound to deal with
wildfires on the landscape of my son
tanned skin I don’t know what it is with
me and burns but I would never forget
the pains that I’ve dealt with
throughout the years traumatic or not I
learned to deal with them
I learned the research behind the skin
and how it heals you without you telling
it no
because basically your hospital in is a
hospital the only difference is it
doesn’t pay anyone it does the job no
matter what when I was 18 a year ago I
was on a roof with my dad working the
shingles were three feet long and one
foot wide and as you can imagine march
through the summer it was a hundred and
twenty over we had to wear pants thick
as polar bears and hats wide as palm
trees but that didn’t stop me from
getting burned the broiling Sun was so
intense it melt the black coating on my
gloves I looked at my dad and he looked
at me and we both smile as if it’s
nothing to worry about
it’s nothing but I couldn’t complain I
knew deep down they heard of him as much
as it hurted me when I was 17 my mom was
cooking tortillas on a flat iron top my
let’s say oblivious self decided hey it
seems cold I placed my hand on it I
didn’t make tortillas for two days a
second degrees scored felt like the
devil himself gave me a high five it was
the worst pain in my life and she
slapped me for it because she told you
she told me it was hot I didn’t listen
to her when I was 13 I experienced my
first heat exhaustion
my mother she slapped me that day
because she told me to stay hydrated
during the workout I told myself no pain
no gain
she replied as she read my mind you’ll
get the pain you need to gain
I believed her ever since that and to
this day she is still still telling me
to stay hydrated no matter what there
were unforgettable moments where I still
remember every detail about a scar a
tissue that broke away because I felt
like I could end up in a hospital bed at
any moment I have almost 10 scars on my
leg tatted no charge life said I can
keep track of every single one until a
story to you I could go on and on and on
about how I dealt with it and how I kept
my pain inside because that’s the best
thing to do right
pain is a necessity paying is also very
very dramatic my dad has told me
countless times that when I was a kid I
said go outside without shoes and he
would stop me before I went now unless I
had shoes I would could not go out me as
a kid craving to play sneak out the back
door and hopefully he didn’t see me or
out the window one time when I was 13
the same year I burned myself a sheet
pan was laid out in the grass that I
didn’t see and I almost ripped my
Achilles tendon I had 13 stitches that
day and again my mother slapped me
my dad did too for not putting on shoes
ever since that I put on shoes every
time I went outside my parents they
couldn’t deal with me sometimes they
would say I don’t know how they did it I
don’t know why they told me all these
things but I knew that their experience
maybe I’ll get somewhere maybe pain
called my name too many times on a list
and I stood up too many times during its
speech
there were times where I felt like I
could give up at any moment at any time
I didn’t know what to do there are times
where my parents weren’t home and I
would knock myself out I guess I would
play too much with my brother or I would
play too much with other things that I
was not supposed to play with and
completely completely give up right
there and then I was sometimes feel like
I was dying or sometimes feel like I am
still dying because those traumatic
events are stuck with me I tell people
when they see my scars yeah I know I
should have done this I should have done
that didn’t you see it they said no how
a few months ago I got burned by a 400
degree oven door on my left elbow barely
a month in into my job they asked me for
work compensate compensation I said no
it’s okay I’m a big boy I should have
taken it
a few weeks after that I took a sheet
pan out of the same oven with
cauliflower on it put it in the kitchen
window things were moving so fast I
reached for the utensils in the kitchen
in the sink below the kitchen window and
next thing you know I got Harry Potter
marks on my forehead and for two months
they called me Harry Potter Mexican
that’s the kitchen they told me that’s
the way it goes
and out through those experiences I
realized that no matter what somehow I
didn’t give up I didn’t complain I
didn’t tell myself you know what you
should quit you know what you should
just leave you know what just going to
the hospital and they’ll take care of
you because your mom’s olive oil wasn’t
good enough I told myself countless
times they’ll be ok he’ll be fine
and countless times more than ever I was
kind of right other times I was now I
seen others with scars and tissues
they’re deformed and broken like when
they look at others who are perfectly
fine without any blemishes any bruises I
have too many to count
too many to show but I can express
myself freely because I know I accept
accepted him as the way they are as a
way I have been through it because I’ve
dealt with them and I didn’t give up in
the end I kept going and going no matter
what and not just physically but
mentally spiritually they’re still in my
mind revolving and cycling like a cinema
over and over and over and over every
time I get one all of them come out and
tell me welcome to the club
pain like I said is a necessity
you don’t like it I don’t like it but I
can lead you in the right way to mend
others who deal with it every day or can
lead you in the wrong way and pass it
along because you’re oblivious to what
others can handle my mom told me one
time if you ever get punched in the face
don’t go straight towards it flow with
it turn the other cheek I asked her what
about your slaps she did this to me
don’t run away
my father is still working in the
roofing of stockman brand-new houses
with him on top since the markets back
on its feet he tells me it never is easy
it will never be easy no matter how much
do you tell yourself it’s always harder
each day and every day but that’s a fun
part I still don’t know what he means by
that what’s so fun about it
most of the time I laugh I reminisce I
ponder about what burn am I gonna get on
my body next no matter how alert I am
know how much know no matter how much
keen I have in my eye
anything can happen in life
and I say to myself
you’re turning 20 you’re about to hit a
pinnacle while others 20-year old say
think it’s gonna go by like that next
thing you know you’re 27 you’re 37 with
kids and a wife and a house and a
mortgage and oh gosh I’m not afraid but
I am excited I’m still in pain but I
smile because that’s the best thing to
do because Colgate toothpaste is your
best friend for at least 17 years
I just want to say don’t give up even
when someone brings you scars you
scratches you it’s not the end it would
never be it would be that goes on and
will always go on thank you so much
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
Wow okay
scarred teen let’s go so my story is
about in the 19 years that I’ve lived so
far I’ve gotten so many injuries where I
stopped keeping track I stopped counting
I just accepted them as it is it hurts a
lot it really does you could either put
Colgate toothpaste run ice-cold water on
a put frozen towel or pretend it’s not
there because that’s the best thing to
do right sometimes you can look and you
can see a scar that wasn’t there and now
it’s there and you don’t know what to do
when I was 15 I was cooking before I had
my chef’s skills here at school taught
to me I was risking fish on a hot
skillet you know what happens with oil
and water right I didn’t put the fish
away from me put towards me and if you
could see me on that day I was like in a
mirror right here a whole chest felt
like the devil himself slapped my chest
even before that I was six when I was
scorched with oil
my sister was cooking chorizo for me my
dad laughed my mother helped but in the
end he comforted me in my pain to sleep
ever since that I was bound to deal with
wildfires on the landscape of my son
tanned skin I don’t know what it is with
me and burns but I would never forget
the pains that I’ve dealt with
throughout the years traumatic or not I
learned to deal with them
I learned the research behind the skin
and how it heals you without you telling
it no
because basically your hospital in is a
hospital the only difference is it
doesn’t pay anyone it does the job no
matter what when I was 18 a year ago I
was on a roof with my dad working the
shingles were three feet long and one
foot wide and as you can imagine march
through the summer it was a hundred and
twenty over we had to wear pants thick
as polar bears and hats wide as palm
trees but that didn’t stop me from
getting burned the broiling Sun was so
intense it melt the black coating on my
gloves I looked at my dad and he looked
at me and we both smile as if it’s
nothing to worry about
it’s nothing but I couldn’t complain I
knew deep down they heard of him as much
as it hurted me when I was 17 my mom was
cooking tortillas on a flat iron top my
let’s say oblivious self decided hey it
seems cold I placed my hand on it I
didn’t make tortillas for two days a
second degrees scored felt like the
devil himself gave me a high five it was
the worst pain in my life and she
slapped me for it because she told you
she told me it was hot I didn’t listen
to her when I was 13 I experienced my
first heat exhaustion
my mother she slapped me that day
because she told me to stay hydrated
during the workout I told myself no pain
no gain
she replied as she read my mind you’ll
get the pain you need to gain
I believed her ever since that and to
this day she is still still telling me
to stay hydrated no matter what there
were unforgettable moments where I still
remember every detail about a scar a
tissue that broke away because I felt
like I could end up in a hospital bed at
any moment I have almost 10 scars on my
leg tatted no charge life said I can
keep track of every single one until a
story to you I could go on and on and on
about how I dealt with it and how I kept
my pain inside because that’s the best
thing to do right
pain is a necessity paying is also very
very dramatic my dad has told me
countless times that when I was a kid I
said go outside without shoes and he
would stop me before I went now unless I
had shoes I would could not go out me as
a kid craving to play sneak out the back
door and hopefully he didn’t see me or
out the window one time when I was 13
the same year I burned myself a sheet
pan was laid out in the grass that I
didn’t see and I almost ripped my
Achilles tendon I had 13 stitches that
day and again my mother slapped me
my dad did too for not putting on shoes
ever since that I put on shoes every
time I went outside my parents they
couldn’t deal with me sometimes they
would say I don’t know how they did it I
don’t know why they told me all these
things but I knew that their experience
maybe I’ll get somewhere maybe pain
called my name too many times on a list
and I stood up too many times during its
speech
there were times where I felt like I
could give up at any moment at any time
I didn’t know what to do there are times
where my parents weren’t home and I
would knock myself out I guess I would
play too much with my brother or I would
play too much with other things that I
was not supposed to play with and
completely completely give up right
there and then I was sometimes feel like
I was dying or sometimes feel like I am
still dying because those traumatic
events are stuck with me I tell people
when they see my scars yeah I know I
should have done this I should have done
that didn’t you see it they said no how
a few months ago I got burned by a 400
degree oven door on my left elbow barely
a month in into my job they asked me for
work compensate compensation I said no
it’s okay I’m a big boy I should have
taken it
a few weeks after that I took a sheet
pan out of the same oven with
cauliflower on it put it in the kitchen
window things were moving so fast I
reached for the utensils in the kitchen
in the sink below the kitchen window and
next thing you know I got Harry Potter
marks on my forehead and for two months
they called me Harry Potter Mexican
that’s the kitchen they told me that’s
the way it goes
and out through those experiences I
realized that no matter what somehow I
didn’t give up I didn’t complain I
didn’t tell myself you know what you
should quit you know what you should
just leave you know what just going to
the hospital and they’ll take care of
you because your mom’s olive oil wasn’t
good enough I told myself countless
times they’ll be ok he’ll be fine
and countless times more than ever I was
kind of right other times I was now I
seen others with scars and tissues
they’re deformed and broken like when
they look at others who are perfectly
fine without any blemishes any bruises I
have too many to count
too many to show but I can express
myself freely because I know I accept
accepted him as the way they are as a
way I have been through it because I’ve
dealt with them and I didn’t give up in
the end I kept going and going no matter
what and not just physically but
mentally spiritually they’re still in my
mind revolving and cycling like a cinema
over and over and over and over every
time I get one all of them come out and
tell me welcome to the club
pain like I said is a necessity
you don’t like it I don’t like it but I
can lead you in the right way to mend
others who deal with it every day or can
lead you in the wrong way and pass it
along because you’re oblivious to what
others can handle my mom told me one
time if you ever get punched in the face
don’t go straight towards it flow with
it turn the other cheek I asked her what
about your slaps she did this to me
don’t run away
my father is still working in the
roofing of stockman brand-new houses
with him on top since the markets back
on its feet he tells me it never is easy
it will never be easy no matter how much
do you tell yourself it’s always harder
each day and every day but that’s a fun
part I still don’t know what he means by
that what’s so fun about it
most of the time I laugh I reminisce I
ponder about what burn am I gonna get on
my body next no matter how alert I am
know how much know no matter how much
keen I have in my eye
anything can happen in life
and I say to myself
you’re turning 20 you’re about to hit a
pinnacle while others 20-year old say
think it’s gonna go by like that next
thing you know you’re 27 you’re 37 with
kids and a wife and a house and a
mortgage and oh gosh I’m not afraid but
I am excited I’m still in pain but I
smile because that’s the best thing to
do because Colgate toothpaste is your
best friend for at least 17 years
I just want to say don’t give up even
when someone brings you scars you
scratches you it’s not the end it would
never be it would be that goes on and
will always go on thank you so much
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
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