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TEDx Talks
Published: 2017-08-31
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHmkYOndsYM
hi a song gonna start with a quick simple question the and it's who has ever encountered change in his life okay so let's take all of your thoughts well if you thought about a let's put it in the globe let's put it in the middle of the scene I look at it from the outside and I bet that we can see so many points the first
one is that change can occur to anyone at any time any day it could be just a small change that happens in our daily lives that we don't even notice and then it could go up to life changing events life changing changes so it could go from something really small to something really big and then more over than that could go from something that creates positive
the vibes in our lives that great happiness Julie motivation many positive feelings that we can feel I don't know success and it could lead to devastating events anger fear depression the motivation and what's more important to me as the last point that sometimes change is sized triggered it's something that we choose to do it's something that we decide to happen why sometimes it to something totally
out of hands something totally random something totally unexpected been I was fifteen years old I don't remember I ate anything contaminated I don't remember being exposed to any super rad deviation no clear I don't know what I don't remember doing anything wrong but two weeks before my sixteenth birthday I was diagnosed with dot cancer leukemia so might change in my life I will I was a
full time student I was just going to school and then in the glimpse of a second my life changed from a full time student to a full time patient so instead of waking up to catch up my school bus and go spend the day at school I used to wake up to have my daily blood tests and instead of going out there and embrace life I
was in my room fighting for life so this is what happened when I was fifteen years old during my treatment I used to need a lot of us the blood the blood units and platelets so and it was really hard to to get these people to donate and my I remember really wed that my parents and my family used to do everything they could just to
get someone to donate and this triggered in me the the need to do something to change because there was something wrong and you know when you live that life backstage life not the regular life you see the misery of people you see the darkness of people I was at the hospital for three years and I know a lot of cases I know I know how much
people struggling to find the blood donor sometimes and I could tell you that without these donors I wouldn't have been here and a lot of patients wouldn't have been here so just take a second and I'm gonna go back in time and show you that the the doctor says I need blood the units and it's urgent so on there and my hospital room and then someone
out there lest everything they're doing maybe there aren't doing anything but they left everything they are doing to leave to go to the blood bank I do said there to have a needle in hand for I don't know how much time and to give part of themselves to someone they don't even know to someone they don't want even %HESITATION may be recognized they want even meet
and this is me without anything in return without even no recognition so just imagine how grateful I am for these people and how grateful I were society should be for these people because they were part of our lives and without them we couldn't have made it here and I remember really well that the person who donated the most platelets was this guy who brings my dad
the morning coffee at the office and this guy he never and the ever refused to take a single penny and he donated more than three times for me so just this is a perfect example off hollow in the circumstances just being inhumane rises above everything a I don't know race religion and beliefs just being a humane and these situations rises above everything and this I think
about all of that is that now I cannot donate blood so I just find anything maybe use my story to motivate people to go and donate blood because every single one of us can have a role in our society to make an impact in our society and during all of these and I was once looking at social media and then I saw people posting get these
pictures and then I was really curious to know world what these pictures about what's the red nose that the hospital corridors and then a few months later I was a member of a team of volunteers and what we do is count therapy I didn't know what was clown therapy about %HESITATION nine you is that we go to kids room at the hospital and we do something
but what's the something I thought that with my experience with what I've been through I can really connect with that these kids I can really relate because one day I was at their place I know what it feels like and I know what they would need do you have this I'm gonna talk about that so here are some pictures so basically what we do is that
we go to the hospital rooms I know it's not only about that being in clown and being super high %HESITATION energetic because what we learned to do to connect with these kids don't know what they want to know what their needs as because some people some kids they want super Hadnagy ten minutes fun magic anything and some kids they just want the classical song and others
they just wanna I don't know with the puppets Blake and you should see the reaction on their faces on on their parents faces and what I think the mission is about the number one thing about this mission it's to be able to take that kid with his parents from where they are from the misery that are living in from the darkness and yes its darkness and
to take them from there and for just ten or fifteen minutes take them out and do so with them and not another part of life which is true it's not a dream this is another part that maybe they are not living now but just to tell them that one day you will get their life is not just about misery and darkness you will get there one
day and uses believe that you couldn't get there one day so %HESITATION this is but owns the anything and this is how we said with our soldiers %HESITATION right now I am twenty four years old and the one who thought I would be here one day I remember really wed when I dropped off from school when I was diagnosed that's my only wish was to go
to school to spend some days with my friends because you know living the life at the hospital was the was crazy so and I dropped off from school but there was one thing that I didn't want to fade in my class I didn't want to fail in my life this is why as soon as I got physically a little bit better I started to study because
I didn't want the train off but of life to Best Buy and I'm here stagnated looking at that without doing anything so I decided to study I know I didn't fail any classes I graduated with my with my colleagues with my friends and then I sat for the SAT test for three times and two out of three times I went with a mask on my face
and with the shiny boards garden and yeah I failed all of these three tests I didn't get a score I got to admit that at the end you an engineering program and the first first year and a half I used to leave sometimes and you because my blood test when good my immune system wasn't ready to fight so I had to leave but I didn't stop
I pointed my finger to the horizon and I plan my life as if I wasn't going to die and this is what each of us should do and I have made it but I have not made that because I am such a super hero over hero because you can make it and everyone can make it even not not only through cancer do any bump in our
