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UNRAVELLING THE KNOTS OF THE PAST | Ramindi Hewage | TEDxYouth@TWSDubai


good morning everyone now before we
begin I would like you all to tie a knot
on the strand of wool as it is crucial
for the idea I should Express today can
someone please pass us the audience now
let’s play a little game don’t worry it
isn’t about reciting the alphabet
backwards or listing all the numerals of
Pi it’s really simple
well King down could you tell me the
color of your shirt or maybe what you
had for breakfast well I’m sure some of
you can but I think we all know most of
us can’t as we are certain we tend to be
a little forgetful at times and maybe
that’s the reason we don’t know the
consequences of our actions until we
have done the deed it is better to dream
think out-of-the-box and explore new
possibilities well when a line is drawn
it doesn’t mean you have to be fenced in
even though it may have been meant for
your own safety we can always go beyond
but remember your consequences will
follow your actions it would have been
amazing if we progress towards
advancement at a gradual pace however
due to the prized obsession for money
you may have gone a little extreme
because to be quite frank
it is our dominant nature to feed our
hunger quench our thirst and satisfy our
greed adults although they’re mature and
logical they have never really been
satisfied and maybe those are the
characteristics that build yourself
sometimes they’re consumed with gluttony
and personal benefit and will stop at
nothing to have their desires grasped in
hands now if I were to ask you who must
be the future I am certain that you
would tell it’s the youth but why do you
place the world on children’s shoulders
why do you depend on children to make
the world a brighter place because all
the negativity in this world was
initiated by adults because you tend to
think in the perspective of yourselves
a recent study has proved that children
are much more competent than adults and
I’m not even talking about teenagers I
mean like five six year olds but as we
grow up well we are taught more we
experience more and maybe society’s
expectations weigh us down to the same
thinking mindset they say remember more
negative events than positive ones and
likewise every day we’re reminded of how
chaotic the century has proved to be now
for instance over the past few centuries
I mean civil wars world wars and
political conflict have been omnipresent
to this very day
now with destruction as its peak control
tell that with all these natural
disasters to that mother nature is
raging with anger well this all began
when I went on vacation to my motherland
Sri Lanka in hopes of a hiking trip to
Vail Pass ooh a vast Nature Reserve
which is a home to a lot of biodiversity
now my mother kept mentioning its
immense beauty verdant canopies and all
the wild animals which run there however
on our arrival much to our dismay an
entire portion of the will cut to Nature
Reserve was complete
destroyed I mean forests cleared and all
you could see were these round stumps of
trees which were once home to so many it
was this that got me thinking this was
not the Utes doing life or perhaps the
way the world revolves is pretty much
similar to a chess game where in the
youth are represented by the courageous
pawns always advancing forward and the
more valuable pieces are the adults
calculative and analytic now the King I
would like to mention well he represents
the mind now there are two possible
outcomes either the king is under
checkmate or stalemate when a king is
under check mate the players well they
seek for the minor pieces the pawns but
especially when threatened they abruptly
desired to transform the pawn to a much
more treasured asset so is it just human
nature to share our burdens only to
escape it well if you represent someone
for their mistakes they won’t attempt to
eradicate them they’ll just be better at
concealing them which brings us to lying
hasn’t it occurred more often than you
could count when you’re presented the
opportunity to lie well the voices in
our heads are all the same volume no
matter how much you try and convince
yourself by raising your tone the truth
can never be hidden just like the Sun
and the moon now going back to your
initial task tying those pesky knots my
please have the ball back thank you
well when we look at the strand of all
you’ll notice that there are many
obstacles to approach imagine seven
billion people contributing to these
each time a nasty not well this is the
world right now riddle to the point of
no saving as beads of sweat form on your
forehead and your mouth twitches to gnaw
at your fingernails
you are avoid about the blade so your
immediate response is to hand this
thread to the youth therefore we’re
restricted to pursue what we desire
because we’re working laboriously to
unravel it to its once pristine nature
so in conclusion you have to genuinely
think about the youth because even if
there’s this minor chance perhaps one in
a million we could probably work it out
now for the youth sitting here what
should we do
keeping this lesson in mind you are
supposed to be yourselves not to please
anyone and never rush into the state of
adulthood well what I want you to do
right now is question your inner
consciousness of three very simple
statements and act upon them question
yourself and aspects of life to
contradict the state of uniformity you
have brought yourselves in remember no
poison can kill a positive thinker nor
can any medicine cure a negative thinker
and last but not least never make
permanent decisions on temporary
feelings thank you [Applause]
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