welcome to my TED talk in my life I’ve
gone through a lot of struggles and it’s
I would have never believed I would have
the opportunity be giving a TED talk in
front of so many people so let me start
by saying how honored I am this
opportunity means a lot to me and I’m
extremely nervous if you couldn’t
already tell but why why is this such a
big deal for me and why I have a
practice so hard to do the best I could
Yolo now what Yolo basically stands for
is you only live once now what this
means is it not in a nutshell is you
should go out and do anything and
everything because you only live once
right and that’s what I’m here doing
today you see I’m not a public speaker
but I realized opportunities like these
in my life don’t come around every day
that’s why I decided to take the
opportunity but she there’s two ways to
look at Yolo see there’s a different way
where kids use it to do stupid things
they use it as an excuse to do stupid
things for example oh I’m gonna go jump
off this cliff because Yolo where I’m
gonna go smoke this poison ivy and see
what happens to my lungs because why not
right you only live once and you see
there was someone in my life that lived
this way live this Yolo lifestyle and
that was none other than my dad you see
my dad used to live life on his own
terms he’s not really think about the
consequences of his actions and used to
drink a lot he used to have the most
poisonous of friends and used to do the
used to live life in the moment and not
really think about how this would affect
people later on so this upset my mom
obviously so she decided to ask him why
why are you doing this to me and more
importantly why are you doing this to
yourself and his answer was very short
and sweet
he said if not now then when
and I agree with them I agree that he
said if not now then when simply because
he didn’t have then when he only had it
now he passed away when I was seven
years old and so having said that I do
agree with him when he said if not now
then when I do agree with that but what
I do not agree with is his actions and
then now you see if he changed his
actions he might have still been there
today and that’s what I encourage
everyone to do to understand that your
actions have effect on yourself
you see even though I do agree with this
he didn’t die because of a fatal
accident he died do you he that he died
because he basically killed himself he
was not suicide but he died due to a
third heart attack yes you heard that
correctly he survived the first but he
still chose to live his poisonous
self-destructive lifestyle he survived
the second and then still refused to do
to seek medical attention and even
refused an operation in order to help
him you see he thought he could cheat
death but let me tell you you may be a
king or a street sweeper everybody
dances with the Grim Reaper right what
if I told you to ignore everything I
said in last 10 minutes because it’s not
true simply because I figured out a way
to live forever wouldn’t you like to
know how well let me tell you a way that
you could live forever you see you do
not live forever
biologically well not yet at least but
you live forever through the thoughts
and actions you’ve left behind when you
were on earth to put this into put this
into perspective let’s take two great
people
let’s take Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf
Hitler these are two very famous people
and great for very different reasons but
you see even though these people have
passed away long long time ago their
actions are still felt today by the
people that they’ve affected positively
or negatively they’re there their
actions have affected millions of lives
so we can draw two conclusions one is
that in your one life
you make decisions and those decisions
affect yourself and they affect everyone
around you so the choice is yours you
can choose to be the hero or villain of
your own life but at the end of the day
when you are on your deathbed you need
to ask yourself have you really lived
have you done it all have you gone out
of your comfort zone and experience new
things learn new things made new friends
with people because let’s face it life
is short we are all going to die so what
are you gonna do well are you gonna
waste the gift of life by letting
yourself and other people hold you back
because I sure I’m not and now that my
TED talk is over I’m gonna tell you how
I’m going to hungry how I’m going to be
living my life I’m gonna go out and find
myself a girlfriend why because Yolo
thank you [Applause]