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How to Die Happy | Grayson Miller | TEDxYouth@FortWorth


mobile question for you all and if you
got up as early as I did it’s probably
debatable how many of you are alive
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now how many of you have lived and i
don’t mean using the oxygen and exerting
the carbon dioxide I’m accusing your
short years on this earth to the best
that you can please raise your hand if
you mix up there are a few months hands
why is that if we’re all alive why are
we all living what’s standing in the way
of you living how you would like to so
think about what you would do if you do
absolutely in connect today anything at
all I can guarantee you none of you
could be here so nothing is not you
should be there today what should you do
experiencing what makes you happy
because this experience makes a memory
and this memory is stored in your brain
and the only thing that you can be sure
that you will have what you’ve done is
yourself in your brain and that’s why
memories are so important I was out
hunting once and it had gotten dark
since the hub was over I packed my bag
and got ready to leave now I had a very
important decision to me it was a miles
walk back to the car if I take the long
way but only a half mile if I took the
short which way do you think I went out
the short way so I turned East and
headed down into the valley instead of
north around it but when I reached the
other side I realized I have no idea
where I was I turned left and the
retreat and I kept running and there
were more cheese and they looked exactly
but I close my eyes and I took a deep
breath and I made a really deep breath
and when I opened my eyes again I
completely forgot that I was lost I was
lost in the middle of nowhere but I was
only looking at the stars there was no
light and there was the most beautiful
thing that I’d ever seen the crickets
were all i could hear and for the first
there was no cracks or grass or twigs
under my feet and the whole world
carried on without by doing anything at
all although I was lost as almost as if
I didn’t have to worry about where I was
because I didn’t know anyways suddenly
my father walked through the woods and
from the sides I was not lost but I was
almost sad that the bomb ahead ended I
even missed the feeling of not knowing
where I was it was almost as if simply
not my location was a burden that had
been lifted off my back I’m telling you
this story because this was the instance
I asked myself what if today was all
there was what if there was no tomorrow
what would I have done differently not
in advance if this could have been my
last day on earth what would you have
done I was going to Scott and who here
would have wanted to do that in their
last day okay maybe skydiving using Fred
I would be whatever I wanted and I would
have said the things that I should have
said but never did I would truly live so
I can’t jump any up any old morning and
say how good sky and I’m not going to
eat whatever I want all the time but I
can do a little bit each and every day I
can eat an amount of donuts once in a
while and I could say something I would
have once been embarrassed to say just
to say just as a thrill of not knowing
what the reaction with you I was in the
Pacific Northwest is some kids from my
school to suffer after 17 a boat had
stopped on San Juan Island for lunch we
had two hours to do whatever we wanted
before we had to be back on the boat so
fern and i found a seafood restaurant to
eat at the head up balcony overlooking
the harbor we ordered downstairs and
they thought the table on the balcony it
took about 15 minutes for him to get his
food and we waiting but mine to come
finally I walk down to the to the
kitchen and asked if there was an order
for Miller my last name apparently the
waiter had placed my order at all so the
chef pushed it to the front and it would
be out in 10 minutes I stopped back up
the stairs and saw back in my chair I
was so mad with the chef the waiter with
everybody I didn’t know why but I’d
still difficulty so certainly a song
came on the bar and it was somewhere
over the rainbow by is the big Hawaiian
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this song was not anything fancy or not
some new hit single but it showed me
that I too was somewhere over the
rainbow this song somehow pushed aside
the waiters mistake something I couldn’t
even control and showed me the beauty
that had been there all the time and the
only thing that had changed was my
perspective there were vast sticking out
from the boats on my left and the huge
ocean is behind with dotted with reed
islands I’m taking myself now for not
snapping a photo to show you today
because it would serve as a concert or
Michael to stay in the moment look at it
and simply enjoy back on this beautiful
this song told me to stop because this
is the world that I may never return key
so I had better enjoy it right now this
song told me to stop and it allowed me
to push away the stress from home
because I was in place those problems
could not reach you and I realized that
I could escape those same problems at
home too all I had to do was let go all
I had to do is let go of the problems
that I had no control over and every day
I would be somewhere over the rainbow so
a lot of high five moments like this
every day it’s because each of
falling into around each of us has a
system that we follow I wake up eat
breakfast go to school learn something
come back come on eat dinner go to bed
wake up and do it all over the next day
I do not want to set up my death bed and
think to myself what have I done and
come to the conclusion that I haven’t
done anything at all this cannot happen
to me and it should not happen to any of
us I’m going to be doing something
amazing when I kick the bucket because
I’m going to be doing something amazing
every day I’m going to get to do
something it gets my heart pumping my
internal being every day however if you
are confined to a bit for a medical
reason jump out of bed up here go
skydiving up here because how you feel
appears what batteries it’s where all
those memories elite uq and it’s where
you kept every memory until now find
your happiest the long as he felt so hot
you could never fall your wedding day
the day we first drove a car the day
simply SAT watch the Sun go down and
live in those muffins forever if you
actually believe that you live life the
best you could you cannot have spent a
moment of it better you will not be
scared of death because death will be
the only journey that you have not yet
explored to start all you have to do is
jump out of your hands you’re going to
start all you have to do is get lost so
thank you ladies and gentlemen but it
still one last message for you and this
what matters the most find what makes
your world light up and do it every
single day so you
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