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Born with War, Made of Choices | Hayat Amiree | TEDxManipalUniversity


yeah when you wake up tomorrow you are

going to be someone nicer someone kinder

and so I’m just there my parents were

busy earning food there were some times

for the device so this is what I say

every night people are going to sleep

and I make sure my heart is this is very

carefully I still sing it I say it

yesterday night and perhaps that’s why

I’m standing tall energetic and

confident in Turkey ball somewhere nicer

seven kinder something just yeah they

always ask me

IATA many sounds ever become or do to

look more of a Chinese who are you

I think I get a have a word with my

parents

but hey I like to be called the global

citizen well you mean what’s that on

paper good find it out soon I was born

at a time in place with love compassion

and regard for human life and play right

out the back world the word now knows it

as a war-torn country but I call it a

ramshackle home for hope yes Danny you

know last time you were in the advanced

civil war when you work it you remember

well the time you spent with your

friends I don’t remember any of that

because it never happened to me all I

remember is the everyday struggle for

food in a safe shelter when we played

war we were thrown into the court

mountains I remember when that one took

my father away we live today’s hearing

and day until suddenly we found in the

mountains and then he told us how he was

tortured and they did manage to escape

I remember one court night we were

sleeping a barnyard some generous people

had offered when they came they threw

all the men in a well and look for young

ladies I remember my mother being beaten

because she did not allow them inside

when the human started into the cruelest

and most evil species

when they are at war once at war you

cease to be you turn it into this

monstrosity that bad he qualifies for

something that nature has created you

are human only until the water breaks

out back in 1999 we made it to refugee

camps in Karachi I worked in factories

with my brothers to make both the ends

meet you see the refugees live is madly

about survival of growth there’s hardly

any talk about growth the future seems

dark and bleak but I knew there was

light at the end of the tunnel and I

hadn’t changed that I was a different

breed thirsty for knowledge I

desperately sought new things to learn

beat a word on a wall or a song that

heard list gets used to listen or play

my father wasn’t an audience of voter of

education my understanding body you

never had the opportunity every night I

would sneak into this refugee night

school with the help of this generous

and kind bad guy I used to get beaten up

every night for showing up late at home

didn’t my family know that this bad guy

was actually enabling my education so I

have mine being a master jump boundary

walls just to be able to read and write

you know don’t matter in what month who

you are there is always someone who

becomes your strength beat that bad guy

who used to escort me well the head of

the next school who let me study after

finding out that I had forged an

identity or my mother who used to walk

10 or 20 kilometers with me to get my

books because we did not have enough

money to pay the bus fare I was a black

sheep in school I didn’t know how to

write or speak English or even basic or

go and sing they which were the

compulsory subjects my friends and

schools used to call me with different

names because I would literally mix

Farsi or do an English I was so stubborn

I used to visit the school in the

morning until my teachers dropped me

home in the evening reflecting back I

think what enabled me to outlast the

trials and tribulations of those

troubled times was the will to live that

was one thing that war could never

destroy our primitive need to survive

and flourish it proves that we can

withstand and push through gargantuan

odds to power it is the key to unlocking

the true potential of the human mind

which cannot be enslaved by your

circumstances if your heart isn’t the

human who is the most powerful

instrument in transcendence it can be

instrumental in creating Wars and

destroying them in creating sickness

in building weapons of mass destruction

in his schools for engineering the

future the human will to flourish is in

itself a perfect oxymora

constructive and destructive at the same

time depending on how are we needed to

there was an ignition contest I

requested my teachers to write me speech

and I have a practice sit in front of

the entire class every lecture assembly

at night sing my song oh yeah when you

wake up tomorrow you are going to be

something nicer so I’m kind and so much

better after me newspapers carried my

name I have granted that position and a

definition contest where students from

200 schools who participated when my

father got to know you asked me do you

and then the beating stop they had

after all both my parents were invited

by the Minister of Education for the

awarding ceremony I then went on to

receive scholarship in one of the best

colleges in the same I took part in

every opportunity available because you

see you’re never stuck in knowing what’s

good and what’s bad for you

you were always stuck in doing what is

good and what is better I did theater

played hockey football the Drowned was

saying I did photographed me fooling and

debated I was a surgeon when I was

really good at I could never know I was

good at speaking if I heard they were

trying to no I submitted applications to

almost every office that provided

scholarship and got rejected

I wasn’t even selected several times for

scholarships in foreign countries but I

could never obtain them because I was a

refugee I had no identity but a refugee

a time likes to sit and breathe inside

in the tub is if I was communicating

we returned the first time in 2011 with

a hope we’re getting smarter

I volunteered for a parliamentarian

member for a year until I received the

scholarship studying backward one

evening when I came home I showed my

passport my father along with my head

ticket he was shocked again I think I

was too good for it

it was a jonatha but I thought I’ll get

better so I requested my brothers to

convince my father because I believe

without Japan’s listened to not getting

anywhere I still remember when he raised

his hands and pray for me although I

feel that he was saying Johnson when I

came to India and followed my passion in

public speaking and pursue my masters in

business management

I hosted shows and events with 40k

spectators join organizations conducted

seminars and conferences on

sustainability and university definitely

I traveled almost all across India not

only did I learn to speak boldly but I

also enjoyed money forget masala dosa as

much as any Indian does after graduating

in 2016 a return to my homeland and join

the team there to organize the first

ever and I stood modern United Nations

whereby we trained hundreds of students

within just two months and invited

international students is going to come

down and take part in the diplomatic

talks

despite the security shoes

not everything was rosy and seven we

exceed us yet two nominees today due to

which once again that the country but

this time we came to India I’ve come to

believe that what matters is the very

moment and now my whole life’s purpose

is not to reach somewhere or achieve a

particular goal like most of us and

while a nearby death pit and a great

that I didn’t do more no last you sorry

there’s no time for that

it’s so strongly believe that might

sugar luck music when you were born the

doctors thank you I think that’s when

the music starts and even when you’re

dead the music does not stop to do what

you love to do do it the passion Jeremy

get better at your music every day like

has gotten better but there are some

challenges and rejections I have a

I know there are more storms to come

more rules to suck me to the Edison but

I always remind myself that I have a

choice

hey choice did she leave my lines one

moment at a time one decision at a time

to take the path that would make all the

difference so the thing is you came but

yeah can you wake up tomorrow you are

going to be someone nicer some Conger it’s just better

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