Part 3: Transcript of Tom Beal's In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you follow your hunches and intuition.
TOM BEAL: (Laughter) Yes I do. There is a fun story here. I mentioned I dropped out of college. I partied too much and went there for the wrong reasons. I was 17 years old in college and ended up dropping out.
For the first time my mother and I agreed. She agreed she was kicking me out and I agreed I was leaving. So that was our mutual agreement. I got in my car. It was a 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit with 180,000 miles and I had $60.00 to my name and I was 18 years old.
The intuition or hunch that I had was, I got in my car and really had no where to go. I can’t stay here and I really have nowhere local that I can go.
My intuition and my gut said drive to New York City. Keep in mind that I didn’t know anybody in New York City and I didn’t have any destination but I followed my gut and my intuition.
In this Volkswagen Rabbit I drove the six hour trip. I left my house at 9:00pm EST and arrived in Manhattan not knowing the exact directions but just knowing that’s what my gut was telling me at 3:00 am in the morning.
All the way there I didn’t have a radio and at this time I didn’t have any spiritual background or upbringing in the church or anything like that.
On the 6 hour drive I said “You know what God, it’s me and you. I don’t know why I going to New York City. I don’t know where I’m going to stay when I get there. I don’t know what I’m going to do.
If I’m going to have to live in my car and that’s what you have in the cards for me then that’s what I’ll do. If you want me to live on the street that’s what I’ll do. If I’m supposed to die in New York City that’s what I’ll do.
I’m just going there on intuition, on my gut. That’s where I feel I need to be going.” So I did that. I talked for 6 hours to nobody but to the universe, to God and it was in his hands. At 3:00 am I get to Manhattan.
I’ve been there like once before and didn’t know where I was going. I was going from the high numbers like from the 180’s down to the lower numbers. On the way I saw a Chinese restaurant. I said “Well I’ve nowhere to go so I’ll just pull in and have a little bite to eat.”
I didn’t have much money so at the same time when I walked in I looked at my money and I had $60.00 minus some gas I had to pay. It was a diesel Rabbit by the way. The waitress came and I said “You know what I’m just going to have a bowl of rice.”
She looked at me and said “We have no rice.” Like a movie I looked around and said “This is a Chinese restaurant right? You don’t have any rice. That’s what you do, right?” She said “Yeah we are out of rice. Anything else?”
I said “Well I guess not. Do you have a restroom I can use?” I went into the restroom and washed my hands and splashed water on my face. I went back in my car and went one block and came to a red light.
At 3:00 in the morning my ex-stepfather was walking across that intersection. I couldn’t believe it. I rolled my window down and I’m yelling out “Hey Cliff. Cliff!” and he keeps walking. I yelled his full name out and he turns around and says “What the heck are you doing down here?”
I said “What the heck are you doing walking the streets at 3:00 in the morning?” Now keep in mind I hadn’t seen Cliff in a couple of years and had no clue he was in New York, none the less in New York City. But the circumstances that lead to that was he said “Where are you staying?” I said “You are looking at it.”
“I just left the house, me and my mom got in a fight and I’m here.” He said” You are staying in your car?” He says “No your not you are staying at my house. I’ve got a place right around the corner.” So I stayed with him for three months in Manhattan. That is a long winded answer to “Do I follow my gut and my intuition.”
That’s a story from a few years ago obviously. But I do feel strongly that when you have that burning desire that you know this is what your supposed to do then take that step boldly. And just one step after the next. I do consider it a miracle.
RALPH ZURANSKI: What specific philosophy or philosophies guide your life and decisions?
TOM BEAL: In the marine corp. I learned 14 principles in leadership. Real quickly here they are judgment, justice, decisiveness, integrity, tact, initiative, enthusiasm, bearing, unselfishness, courage, knowledge, loyalty and endurance. That’s a quick run down of those 14 traits but I feel that if I’m doing the best that I know how today and I can do a little bit better tomorrow; that’s all I can ask for.
I try to do everything honestly and ethically I try not to cross any of those lines. In my mind I know what’s right and what’s not and I try to do my best every single day. My goal is to be a little bit better tomorrow than I am today.
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