 Some of you have been asking why I have the title dad in my discord server. The short answer is I have a kid I look out for who thinks I am so old that calling me dad is funny. Here's the honest answer. I grew up in a non-profit youth foundation that is partnered with a tennis academy. After I graduated from college I came back to work for that environment as their video guy. Now the purpose of that environment is to take at-risk youth and get them a scholarship to college whether it be through tennis, academics or anything else. There are so many other things that happen there that I don't have time to explain them all so if you want to check that out I'll leave a link in the description. So in my first few months this Mexican kid was just starting the program. He was super quiet and the first four months he didn't really say anything. At the beginning I think he struggled in the new environment. You could tell he really appreciated the opportunities that came with being there but it was definitely really different from what he was used to since the expectations there are so high. As time went on he started to improve at everything. He was getting better at tennis and he was becoming a much better version of himself but he was still really quiet despite the fact that you could see him improving. It's almost like he never really seemed happy with it. Now I don't remember when this happened but at some point I started to get closer to him. I think it started because I actually saw how much potential he had when it came to tennis. I was particularly intrigued because there really are no Mexican tennis players so it was very unique. So as we got closer we started talking about his life, what he struggled with and what he wanted to do in the future and eventually he really started opening up about what bugged him and it became pretty apparent to me why he was so quiet. I'm not going to go into detail because that's his business but I definitely got a lot more respect for him when I found out what he was dealing with. So fast forward two years of his hard work, willingness to not give up and all of the time and effort put in by everyone at that foundation and the tennis academy. He is now ranked top 20 in the United States for National Junior Tennis and he is getting a full scholarship to an Ivy League school where he is going to be playing on their division one tennis team. Now let's get this straight. I don't claim any success for this kid. He worked harder than almost anyone I have ever seen go through that environment because I think he really understands the value of life. The one thing I will say is that I am pretty close to him and it has been very inspiring to watch him these last two years. Because when I think about all of the times that he could have quit and I think about all the times that most people do quit and I think about all the times that he just looked at that adversity and he was just like no, I'm going to be better than that and I'm going to become whatever I'm supposed to become. No one deserves his success more than he does. So it is his 18th birthday tomorrow and a few months ago he actually knows that I have this YouTube channel and a few months ago he asked if he could buy a computer for me and while I was trying to sell the computer that I built for the tutorial on how to build a computer someone actually reached out to me asking if I would make a trade for an extremely nice laptop. This laptop costs like a thousand dollars and the computer that I built for the tutorial cost me like 250. It wouldn't be a Christopher E video if I didn't get a deal so this is what happened. Here it is. Yeah, thank you, appreciate it. Okay, so do you want to share on the inside first? Five parts and stuff like that. I could just buy the GP if I wanted to. And it's kind of learning, makes sense. This is a good learning computer. Asus gaming notebook PC looks good. So the family I just met with was really cool. I really don't expect there to be anything wrong with the laptop. I checked it out as well as I could just now and uh it's in pretty good condition. I mean there are no scratches on that thing at all like not even a nick. So I really think I made the better of that trade. Well you know they don't know how much I paid for everything but uh it's a really nice laptop. So let's see if we can get a hold of a birthday boy and uh surprise him. Sit boy. So um I am I'm very proud of you for getting into college and obviously that I mean at a certain point once your tennis got to a certain level kind of expected it. But I am even more proud of... I'm even more proud of who you've become. I know obviously there's still a lot more for you to become like the peak performance I guess person that you're going to be because it's not all about tennis. But I think that the fact that you made tennis work so well for you is because of the fact that you made certain choices that very few people make and the fact that you came to me for some things and had I guess more of a personal connection with me because I felt it a lot with you made me very very happy and very proud and I guess I attached too much to what you were doing but I was very always very happy to see how well you were doing all the time. So you asked me if I could build you a computer and I thought about it and since I knew that you were going to get into a good school which was not going to be in Nevada I thought that a computer didn't make the most sense. So what I did was I built a computer and then I traded it for this. Happy birthday slash good job on getting into college. Now this is a gaming laptop but it's weaker on the gaming side and excellent for everything else. Well not really it's actually just pretty much an amazing laptop. It's been factory reset. It opens up this way. But it's got a nice design. It's a little bit large and hopefully that doesn't bother you too much to anything but it's I promise you this thing is very powerful. It turns on and off very fast. I know you don't understand how computers work but I can promise you that this is pretty top of the line. Charger is over here. But yeah it's pretty solid. It's very future proof. This thing should last you minimum five years longer I think but it's a very good laptop so I know you already have one but this is a lot better. So yeah you don't need to come up with any other words or anything like that. I did this for me. I wanted to give it to you so thank you. It should definitely be more enough for college but it's it's definitely it's good. Oh wait one more thing. I I hate keep laptop mouse pads G502. This is a pretty good mouse. So I almost didn't give that to you. I almost forgot but yeah so that's everything man and I will see you tomorrow at three o'clock for your birthday right? Yeah you texted it to me. That was sweet. He you know he started like yeah he was like tearing up. That's the end of the video so I hope you guys found this entertaining or informative in any way shape or form. As always thank you guys so much for watching. Have a great day and happy birthday man.