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Education through Fairy Tales | Antanas Bernatonis | TEDxYouth@KJG


good morning yes I have a question for
you how many of you have ever listened
to a fairy tale I see that most of you
have I remember myself laying aside my
mom or dad and listening to beautiful
stories about dragons adventures of the
third brother or tale about three little
kids actually this one was my favorite
as you can see I loved it so much I knew
every single word of this tale imagine
that
what are tales tales are lessons and
truths of life explained in a simple way
and have you ever wondered why parent
tourists tales to the kids not because
kids are stupid or something but because
tales are stories they alive and while
listening to them you can not only hear
it but feel and imagine it as well very
often we grow up and we forget fairy
tales we grew up with we become too
smart for them and in general we know
everyone already do we there are many
things we can learn through metaphors of
fairy tales truth sincerity kindness
sacrifice love and many other values
today I want to tell you a fairy tale a
fairy tale about happiness once upon a
time when people were communicating
without messenger and there weren’t any
TEDx talks in the cities at the most
beautiful Valley in the world
there was a boy living his name was Tico
Tico was like any other boy average high
average weight brown hairs blue eyes
like another war kekova standard at
certain things
and not so much at others you were good
at singing but he was bad at running he
was bad at studying but he was he was
very good at sleeping he was awful at
cooking but he was the best at eating
like many other boys kick on you many
people in his Valley but only with few
of them he was friends the place he was
living at was astonishing Green Green
Valley is surrounded by the Magnificent
mountains that you can see their table
silently resting above the clouds or
blanket in snow
there were many waterfalls falling from
the cliffs of the mountain and forming
rivers down the valley where kids used
to play to me the hot summer days
because molly was quite big and terrible
living not so many people everyone there
had the own woods no exception was kike
he had his own beautiful forest and in
the middle of that forest was his home
of happiness when Kiko was a little kid
forest was quite small so Kiko was able
to run there easily anytime he wanted
what time was passing by and forest was
getting bigger even though Kiko was
growing as well for the forest did that
much faster leaving him behind in the
race of growth because of that teenager
Kiko began to struggle reaching his home
of happiness he sometimes he would just
get lost in the forest and instead of
reaching at the home of happiness he
would go to the home of sadness of Eden
even worse home of anger after a few
years of de nieve struggle Kiko realize
that if he wants to reach Rome of
happiness easier he need to build a
footpath there he began to mark the
trees and walk the same way every single
time and after a while small path has
been built and Kiko was able to go to
the home of happiness with ease and
without getting lost in the dense forest
but then another problem arose when Kiko
was on the other side of the woods he
had to go all the way around to get to
the track you can imagine that it was
quite a long journey to him so he
decided to build another footpath from
the other side of the woods
and then two more from the left and the
right side and more and more and more
ways in order to get the home of
happiness anytime he wanted as fast as
possible when they already where when
there has already been many rows in the
forest Kiko began to develop and
beautify the ones he was using the most
often not only that not only the
timespan and the hormone happiness would
be joyful but the walk itself would
bring him a smile but one day Kiko grew
up and became an adult he began to work
and study
he got responsibilities which resulted
in taking walks in bigger circles around
the forest and less often he was using
and do you know what happens when
footpaths are not used they disappear so
quick or fell into routine of doing
things he was not sure why he was doing
it he he was he kept going circles
around the forest telling himself he was
doing that because he wants to spend
more time and how happiness happiness
when actually the distance between him
and their home was getting bigger and
bigger
once when he tried to enter the forest
the road was so very low visible that he
had was in the forest he kept running
back and forward looking for the path
but it was gone the boy sat on the grass
and started to think about what is he
doing this is what they do is actually
something that makes me happy it’s
something that needs to be done
something that inhabitants of the valley
is telling that his right to do is
something that I’m here for I don’t feel
happy anymore I feel lost that minute
quick admitted that he understood that
certain changes needs to be done here
he stopped walking circles around the
forest and began began to do restore
them one after another
it took some time for him but yet it was
easier to fix it than to build the new
ones you continued taking care of the
roads walking through the home of
happiness talking to Dan animals on the
way there and enjoying great time in the
woods and when He fulfilled himself with
the joy he began to help other people to
picture of the forest and the road to a
happy places each of us has our own
forest and home of happiness inside
there and each of us is building
footpaths to get there though those
paths those roads can be anything Hobby
sport work education panel relationship
cooking talking traveling coding or even
doing nothing
each of us has our own way to get to the
home of happiness and it’s natural that
during the time we live and forget
particular ways and discover the new
ones for example if one of the ways
could be partying all night long in your
20s probably in your 30s will be more
happy spending time with our family at
home and it’s natural it’s okay I have a
question that each of you has to answer
to yourself what are your roads to the
home of happiness and do you take care
of them or just walking circles around thank you
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