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How Writing Letters Changed my LIfe | Shamir Reuben | TEDxCBIT


i but there is no being humiliated oh

and we will try and perform small part

part of potato for you here these are

not judge me i was 12 i am with the

I’ve been you a long time now from in 68

I wanted to fix a date to tell you this

but I was so afraid I’d run out of

things to say so I’ll say now I think

you live and I thought in you but every

time I try to talk to you I felt like I

had evaporated and it’s unfair not even

tense through your emotions will be just

a bit like this emotion with bursts of

being this words and pains but after

intense I’m not going to pretend today

that I am forgiving being a mess so I

will find the strength to say that I

that I really actually really really

like it is that bit of a small part of

memory first not let up obviously I

really do just remember sitting in a

classroom bench – that means – paper –

attention to my fist moving a lot and

drop down toe then I change my mind but

I was deranged applying whatever water

we’re too old for coffee I mean I use

the words evaporates condenses vapor

– chomping – half the garage hood

because the effort to be overly poetic I

describe my crush like the waterside for

my separation make things burn slower

than the only stuff I couldn’t get by

never cannot beat me and out of twice

instance I noticed of every sentence

began with an i use letter with always

being offered but more everything I just

described her as a negative instead that

what I done what that by witch’s power

faced countless use this man force so to

speak I decide I’m kidding you reading

what entra21 happy a little voice in my

head said mediate just fall back for the

rest of the day I had continuous

watering and I got passing the letter go

many motion as that misty I feel like my

heart attack like my mind winner is now

first girl I ever loved probably every

which is however less that was loaded

every kept far away nurse is stupid my

first

but it is special to me because it

introduced me to this incredible world

of writing networks and amis I was in

love for the first time and I didn’t

look back and I remember the first time

I tried writing a piece of my heart for

my credit rush the first emotion I felt

was fear and I think that heart is that

you’re always trying to write something

general fear is dangerous because it was

working to douse it in addition limited

you don’t enter

what happens is your mind has this self

defense mechanism it sort of shuts down

when you think it’s giving too much away

so that makes your writing a to do so to

talk to that I hope with this trick

called a letter from now on all you have

to do is just convince yourself that

you’re a ghost writer they let your body

into genuine you don’t have to sign out

any we’re going to do that to get this

veil of anonymity that’s very strange if

you believe it helps you move on even

filters who otherwise would put in you

right the next time you feel a little

nervous just right the second thing I

went through was this beautiful bird

called a Amidala which most of you

probably would have heard of but it’s

best Strider example imagine that you

take a look beautiful

immediately after that I’ve got this

little voice in your head says there

have been thousands of pictures of

sunsets right more beautiful beaches

what makes your picture so special what

makes it British and if that feeling

which makes toward all the same users

verse basically purposes and as a

creative writer or an artist that became

extremely dangerous busy when you find

yourself in that context I think it’s

very important to remind yourself I

think the grand scheme of things

everything you want to write on has been

written on before another artist at the

creator anything you bring is

perspective your experiences are unique

you know what to tell your story better

than you wire which says who kindly

English just write the best version of

the story the third takeaway relative

from another was that if all of this

natural impulse of being heroes in our

solution it is understandable but the

moment is stop poison from the eyes and

you start getting leverage we use that’s

when a more

start point just rusting and I see this

leather cover name never have a face

always makes more of an impact than one

that has individual interests or agenda

estimates of a letter always needs to be

more profound in second so I am honest

and acutely unpack later remember that

you have to give em you have to be that

August so how do these new observations

of thoughts either upset

well I better forget the first because I

try to write a second one this happened

when I was teaching music okay so I said

why not

so the middle of the night is a paper

and a pen I don’t know how much I love

her and how much she will – spent and

every night before I slept the only

three had came for was her to live alone

that just a few months a hurt in the

spawn room inside my house I’ve been

diagnosed with breast cancer and it was

there that we entire just relaxed then

something has trusting as this happens

in your life you entire world give your

entire perspective tends to shift maybe

that happens because you start observing

things change

let me give you an example because I

have spent so much time in hospitals in

my mother I would spend most of it in

waiting rooms where there will be

hundreds of people will be trying be

screaming will be shouting the top

enough and what I want it at that point

in time was just conventional calm some

some please make me think on other days

I would be outside the ICU in a deserted

corridor where everything gone for hours

and all I want you to hear then it was

just the sound of the door opening or

just surgeons talking to each other or

footsteps anything we convinced me that

things are alive now when you have such

situations you can find words in

situation we understand that any word

have a different interpretation and

meaning based on how much I think that’s

very important in terms of observation

right now we can observe and make it any

higher experience for responders more

important in these amitabh servation

one that sets us apart art achievement

connections are you here example I went

on to my mom’s room after chemotherapy

to spend some time with her and she was

trying to dream and our hands would

shake violently and our eyes would go in

and out

which is friend battle control teacher

this one time I went up to the ICU to

put my mom there for the night and I saw

the six-year-old boy screaming after he

saw the needle in the search his hands

and he was charging for his mother and

his mother was upset guys knew what he

was first met one time I will not get

them all done my mom’s treatment and the

pure cosmic prototype do something that

had been taken while my mom was in the

icing so all of the human connections

that leave you with the most everlasting

is incompatible because we are social

animals

you don’t you in the fight you see it on

emotional physical or spiritual level

tougher activities and in the human

dimension of human context be important

when you’re writing something as

personal as well so when I was shopping

between these two school of observations

I stopped it upon this I

thought myself this is 40 of the best I

can be and there is no worse feeling and

fighting a half-written

but a half-hearted life so at all I said

that I want to cry this time I was

determined to get it done

even before I could start my third head

of life we don’t

certainly the one person I love most in

the world was getting worse by the day

being away from me and I could I could

do nothing about I just watch them

then the inevitable happened and she

passed away I completely stopped it took

me months of soul-searching of trying to

answer questions that I had about myself

before I could figure out what went now

when I was back again I think I stopped

writing because I was so attached to the

entire idea of a perfect letter that it

did not happen I just I just lost myself

and that’s the risk carrying with you

every time you invest yourself

ferny you one aspect of many you will

never understand to expand to potential

what you can do if you’re narrow-minded

or country nothing will ever change we

write with this there are other

different how will you fix flow we write

because the reveal in different ways to

side of it you will never know which

information works the best

unless you believe the last less energy

Kuwait

my journey of writing letters that you

have to ask yourself very tough

questions having to leave in one unit we

don’t just listen to music this is the

best version of the story that you

wanted to introspect and reflect because

once you send that letter nothing to say

what will be trust me when I say this it

is no worse being narrating a half the

age of 19 three years after I started

writing my first edit my mother finally

finished we’re starting with just one

takeaway that I keep with me throughout

this point in melancholic hard Jovita

romantic it’s that put together

beautiful letter you have to take

yourself cautious and right now

important day I format the language I

have performed address for a living and

I can tell you that his North Philly

guys know beautifully when you go on

stage someone comes up to after show

and say that if I can get would you just

go against the most rewarding feeling

that you can have any mantra sort of

here

I believe that’s why I need to write for

clear I would like to leave you with the

fourth item one and actually rush to

finish this one’s for my mother and it

used to make in just in time I hope you

go back home when you listen to this you

put your mother before which is far away

although because of how much tougher so

looking all the strength in the world

lacking responsible game on and so I

would be like thank you so much

you know I remember the birthday

dispense years ago must have been a few

days in cioppino the starter struggle

not starting sir first time in so many

years you and I didn’t scale the first

time in so many as there was no childish

excited wait for the first time in so

many events there was nobody does no

matter what you get at that point in

time you’re heavy skinny emotional fell

sad undecided they go like this so

quietly next morning I was left so the

first thing I did when I walked office

filled up the steps – you better go I

imagine you so I quietly which will be

moving that I will be first faces all

work of international that I took a room

one experience with countless hospitals

the mission when I to be a nothing

silently dead rush of the Optima head

said something’s wrong I knew you

couldn’t even walk straight without me

by excite to take away that appeal hand

should be inside my head before getting

off the high quality weekend again and

laughing go so you start tracking eating

typical agreement

every time community and she leave a

value you just flash the science about

folding out

I almost

if I was a nice book

remember that you can import into the

entire world is what is so much Tony

Hart felt like be a burden

there are days that forward between

value versus collective absolute

perspective refused to do it

you told me how it felt when you needed

me to walk 2 meters Vanessa Moya you

feel absolutely heavens

isolate

I try to give this up on that you

mastered over here and that it’s all we

keep in mind years of easy changes

three years later I celebrated what they

say when I attack science quiet birthday

wish instead of connective irritation

and things so much better but I this

far-out face but I have found that Paris

is so drastically play I’m checking for

your should understand I wish I could

kiss your cheeks and then everything

it’s people service so yes

whatever gift documents under the

communiques are easy whirring time

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anyways not about my wishes but how

typically is

hope that one man can see that God

enjoys the best apt remember

yes lightly his foreskin remembers the

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broken mess

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