but our once we have turned into our
needs about everything we take for
granted how do you ever just that and
God thought about the houses we have the
money we spend the families we know the
schools that we go to about everything
in our lives we just take it as a given
we seem to only focus on the people that
have more than us perhaps because they
are easier to see but what we might not
realize is how fortunate we really are
after all you have a roof over your head
well almost 500 thousand people in the
US are homeless in Wisconsin there are
over six thousand people on the streets
Eddy Green Bay there are over 40 you
have food well almost 21,000 people all
over the world died from hunger every
day the point is if you have a place to
call home and know what you’re going to
eat tonight for dinner that is something
with recognizing but who are we to say
these things you we are too privileged
girls we recognize this because we have
houses we have money we go to school we
have families but we need to do more to
help our community after all is because
we have the privilege to make the change
happen
one thing that none of us really have to
worry about is toys because of this
around the holidays I collect and donate
toys to less fortunate something else I
have done during the holidays is ring
bells and raise money for
Salvation Army it was Shakespeare who
said be not afraid of greatness
some are born great some achieve
greatness and some have greatness thrust
upon them
unfortunately the idea of being great
isn’t something most kingdom consider
since most people have to work for what
they are it is still barely make
paycheck to paycheck
and we should seek out the people who
strive to be good in their lives
the ones who achieve greatness it
wouldn’t be enough for just us to do
this it would take many others to
realize the things that we do I think it
is important for most of us to realize
what we take for granted I thought if we
randomly selected a group of people and
asked them what they took for granted
they would take cell phone food families
money these are all great things but did
you notice a theme maybe they forgot
something none of those people would
have said they took for granted that
they can see that they can talk if we
can hear that we can walk that we have
life I think that we take life for
granted most of all it may be it can
strange to think that even our basic
senses come as a privilege but what
you’ll find is that life can be more
enjoyable when you take the time to
appreciate the small things in life it
will also put you in the right frame of
mind to truly give back to the ones in
need one way I try to give back to the
community is by volunteering I make a
jewelry full of people they can’t afford
it send money to the
and made food for the homeless even
though that I go into it with the
mindset to help others I also feel
satisfaction I also feel heartbroken
sadness for the ones that can afford a
house food or money whenever when I look
at myself I see it kind of more than
enough but I still take the little
things for granted things like the Sun
coming up that I can go to bed knowing
that everything is okay or that I have a
healthy family I would love to give back
more backs are the ones that can’t give
I also love to give back to the
community and doing everything I can to
help the ones who don’t have the best
clothes the best name rent or even the
best shoes people our schools are
discriminating because they don’t have
the right things I kind of stay positive
and have a good mindset on people who do
what they like to do I feel like it
people think it is important to be
popular or socially accepted but it’s
not that that counts is that we have the
opportunity to go outside and make
memories with our families because that
is what’s important is what is important
I think that it is important to
volunteer – in my free time I go and
make Thai blankets with my dance video
for the Vince Lombardi Cancer Center and
I would love to do
to help the people who are less
fortunate than we are I hope that this
can show you that just because we may be
young it doesn’t mean that you can’t
make an impact on the world and that no
matter where you live there is all these
opportunities for helping others even
the very fact that we have the
opportunities to help others every day
is something that we take for granted
that we have the time and means to
pursue and be of someone service that we
have the opportunities to choose our own
path
for instance this very TEDx experience
those of us who have to create the
creativity pursuits on earth we are
given chances to show our creativity and
I know I take those opportunities for
granted because if we took a little time
and thought about everything that we
have that others don’t and use that
information to our advantage
our generation could change the world so
maybe think again before you throw out
the food you did it to eat because the
food that we waste could feed someone
every year the average family throws out
six hundred and forty dollars worth of
food or 16 percent of what we buy that
is not the number to be proud of
so before you trash another stuff animal
toy or blanket maybe think the people
that don’t have a house that don’t have
a family that can’t go to school that
could use a blanket tire stuffed animal
to put a little happy in their life and
if someone asks you to donate maybe just
donate a little pay it forward because
that little could go a long way take a
closer look at someone before you judge
them because it’s not what’s on the
outside it is what’s on the inside that
counts just because they are different
it doesn’t mean that they’re a bad
person because on the inside of everyone
there is an amazing great talented
person Alabama so our generation needs
to give back to the community and to the
ones who can’t when you help someone
maybe that kindness could spread person
after person to one after another
because if we all just set and thought
we could change the world
[Applause]
needs about everything we take for
granted how do you ever just that and
God thought about the houses we have the
money we spend the families we know the
schools that we go to about everything
in our lives we just take it as a given
we seem to only focus on the people that
have more than us perhaps because they
are easier to see but what we might not
realize is how fortunate we really are
after all you have a roof over your head
well almost 500 thousand people in the
US are homeless in Wisconsin there are
over six thousand people on the streets
Eddy Green Bay there are over 40 you
have food well almost 21,000 people all
over the world died from hunger every
day the point is if you have a place to
call home and know what you’re going to
eat tonight for dinner that is something
with recognizing but who are we to say
these things you we are too privileged
girls we recognize this because we have
houses we have money we go to school we
have families but we need to do more to
help our community after all is because
we have the privilege to make the change
happen
one thing that none of us really have to
worry about is toys because of this
around the holidays I collect and donate
toys to less fortunate something else I
have done during the holidays is ring
bells and raise money for
Salvation Army it was Shakespeare who
said be not afraid of greatness
some are born great some achieve
greatness and some have greatness thrust
upon them
unfortunately the idea of being great
isn’t something most kingdom consider
since most people have to work for what
they are it is still barely make
paycheck to paycheck
and we should seek out the people who
strive to be good in their lives
the ones who achieve greatness it
wouldn’t be enough for just us to do
this it would take many others to
realize the things that we do I think it
is important for most of us to realize
what we take for granted I thought if we
randomly selected a group of people and
asked them what they took for granted
they would take cell phone food families
money these are all great things but did
you notice a theme maybe they forgot
something none of those people would
have said they took for granted that
they can see that they can talk if we
can hear that we can walk that we have
life I think that we take life for
granted most of all it may be it can
strange to think that even our basic
senses come as a privilege but what
you’ll find is that life can be more
enjoyable when you take the time to
appreciate the small things in life it
will also put you in the right frame of
mind to truly give back to the ones in
need one way I try to give back to the
community is by volunteering I make a
jewelry full of people they can’t afford
it send money to the
and made food for the homeless even
though that I go into it with the
mindset to help others I also feel
satisfaction I also feel heartbroken
sadness for the ones that can afford a
house food or money whenever when I look
at myself I see it kind of more than
enough but I still take the little
things for granted things like the Sun
coming up that I can go to bed knowing
that everything is okay or that I have a
healthy family I would love to give back
more backs are the ones that can’t give
I also love to give back to the
community and doing everything I can to
help the ones who don’t have the best
clothes the best name rent or even the
best shoes people our schools are
discriminating because they don’t have
the right things I kind of stay positive
and have a good mindset on people who do
what they like to do I feel like it
people think it is important to be
popular or socially accepted but it’s
not that that counts is that we have the
opportunity to go outside and make
memories with our families because that
is what’s important is what is important
I think that it is important to
volunteer – in my free time I go and
make Thai blankets with my dance video
for the Vince Lombardi Cancer Center and
I would love to do
to help the people who are less
fortunate than we are I hope that this
can show you that just because we may be
young it doesn’t mean that you can’t
make an impact on the world and that no
matter where you live there is all these
opportunities for helping others even
the very fact that we have the
opportunities to help others every day
is something that we take for granted
that we have the time and means to
pursue and be of someone service that we
have the opportunities to choose our own
path
for instance this very TEDx experience
those of us who have to create the
creativity pursuits on earth we are
given chances to show our creativity and
I know I take those opportunities for
granted because if we took a little time
and thought about everything that we
have that others don’t and use that
information to our advantage
our generation could change the world so
maybe think again before you throw out
the food you did it to eat because the
food that we waste could feed someone
every year the average family throws out
six hundred and forty dollars worth of
food or 16 percent of what we buy that
is not the number to be proud of
so before you trash another stuff animal
toy or blanket maybe think the people
that don’t have a house that don’t have
a family that can’t go to school that
could use a blanket tire stuffed animal
to put a little happy in their life and
if someone asks you to donate maybe just
donate a little pay it forward because
that little could go a long way take a
closer look at someone before you judge
them because it’s not what’s on the
outside it is what’s on the inside that
counts just because they are different
it doesn’t mean that they’re a bad
person because on the inside of everyone
there is an amazing great talented
person Alabama so our generation needs
to give back to the community and to the
ones who can’t when you help someone
maybe that kindness could spread person
after person to one after another
because if we all just set and thought
we could change the world
[Applause]
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