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VIP Point-of-View Stories – Fighting Spirit

Hello, welcome to the point-of-view stories for this month’s lesson. Three different versions of the story, let’s get started. Version number one… Bill is a brave, strong, courageous man, da, da, da, da, da… He’s tough. He’s strong.

He skis down huge mountains. He likes to jump out of airplanes. He likes to swim with killer whales. He’s a tough, tough man, but then one day something happens.

Bill is cooking his dinner. He’s chopping vegetables with a samurai sword, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop. He’s so tough, he always uses a samurai sword to cut his vegetables, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop. While he’s chopping the vegetables, he accidentally cuts off his pinky. Chop! Awh!

It’s a traumatic experience for him. He becomes so upset about this accident that he becomes very, very timid and meek. He becomes so timid that he’s scared of his own shadow and after that he remains timid for a long time.

Now, his girlfriend Beatrix is very tough, very strong and she is not happy about Bill being timid. So, finally, she gets very upset and she tells him “Bill, I’m sick of this. I’m sick of you being to timid and weak. You need to get tough again. You need to get strong again.” And she gives him a ticket to a Tony Robbins’ seminar.

Bill goes to the seminar. He learns how to be strong again and, finally, he walks across fire and he does indeed become brave and courageous again.

And that is the end of our first version. The next version of this story begin with… * * * * *

When he was younger, when he was younger, Bill was brave. When he was younger, he skied down huge mountains. He jumped out of airplanes. He swam with killer whales.

Bill was a tough, brave, courageous guy when he was younger.

However, at the age of 20, Bill had a cooking accident. He was chopping his vegetables with a samurai sword and he accidentally cut off his pinky. Chop! Awh! Well, after that he was always timid and meek. After that accident, he was always timid and weak. He was scared of his own shadow and he was timid and meek for a long, long time and his girlfriend Beatix didn’t like that. She became more and more and more upset. Until, finally, one day she gave him a ticket to a Tony Robbins’ seminar. She said “Go this seminar. You must go and learn to be strong again.”

And so he went to the Tony Robbins’ seminar and he did indeed learn to be stronger again. Until, finally, he walked across fire at the end of the seminar and once again he became brave and courageous. He was happy and so was his girlfriend Beatrix.

All right, our next version, our final version of this story begins with the phrase… * * * * *

In the year 2020, two-thousand twenty, in the year 2020, there will be a guy named Bill.

Now, in the year 2020, he’s gonna be a very timid guy.

“Gonna”, of course, means going to, for the future. It’s casual. You never use it when you write something formal, but in casual speech it’s very normal.

So, anyway, in the year 2020, he’s going to be, he’s gonna be a very timid man at that time, in the future. However, he’ll be a timid guy in the year 2020, but he won’t have been a timid guy always.

See, before that he used to be brave. Before the year 2020, he was brave. Before the year 2020, he liked to ski down huge mountains. Before the year 2020, he liked to jump out of airplanes. He liked to swim with killer whales. But in the year 2020, in the future, he’s gonna be, he’s going to be a very timid and meek person. In fact, he’ll be scared of his own shadow.

Now see, actually, what’s gonna happen, what will have happened, is that when he was younger he will have had an accident. He will have had a cooking accident. Bill will have had a cooking accident. He will have cut off his pinky while cooking and because of that he will become timid and meek and he’ll remain timid and meek, of course, right up until the year 2020.

Now, in the year 2020, his girlfriend will finally get tired of him being week and timid.

She’s gonna buy a Tony Robbins’ seminar ticket for him. She’s gonna give it to him and she’s going to say “Bill, you must go to this seminar.” And he will go. He’ll go to the seminar. He’ll learn to be strong again and, finally, he will walk across fire and he’s gonna become a brave and courageous man once again.

And that is the end of our point-of-view stories.

Now, one note, that final version of this story where I was telling it in the future is quite advanced and quite difficult and quite unnatural really. It’s not common for us to speak in that way, to tell a story like that in the future. So, even as I was telling that story, I was having to think a lot. I was really having to concentrate about how to tell the story correctly.

So, don’t worry about the third version if you feel oh, my God, this is difficult. This is complicated. Don’t worry because you will almost never need to use this kind of grammar or tell a story in this way. I’m doing it just to give you some more variety and different kinds of grammar and points of view, but don’t worry too much about that third one.

Usually when we talk about the future we’re using just the simple future 95-98% of the time, so just relax. As usual, just listen to the stories that’s all you need to do. Don’t analyze them. Don’t think about them too much. Just listen to them again and again, at least once a day.

All right, I will see you next time, bye-bye.