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In this part of life; find your own happiness. | Prachi Agrawal | TEDxPIMR


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junga Suraj Lockhart that events updated
here sorry kids but pay ho Teja picked a
good idea
kiichi hand Nikita is a me paper Nikita
Dicky Beach me though they located a
body
dunya make a hit me the the Sukhoi baby
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the NIA maker it be that the Sicari be
Dartmouth the hummock oh yeah happy it
has a so sick a suck MOCA hooking up
night away okay what are you waiting for
another day another door somewhere we
have to find a new way to be what are
you waiting for another sign another
call somewhere we have to find a new way
to be peace and happiness is something
we all consciously seek in life and as
I’m a psychologist
technically I’m supposed to talk about
the science behind happiness but I’m not
going to do that I’m going to share five
stories from my life where I experience
happiness and peace well my name is
Pratt see uh Grovyle and as you see
there is a condition that I experience
which is very rare of its kind
it’s called orthography since
multiplexor congenic conjoined tina the
condition is not as complicated as the
name is it’s really simple but then the
day I was born
it turned out to be an episode of
Discovery Channel where everybody was
trying to find out what it is and how it
is you know and in my journey of 23
surgeries that I had one thing that
remained common is that every time I
entered the operation theatre me and my
mother we had a smile on our face
she giving it to me and I giving it to
him that dude it’s okay I’m okay Jill
yeah and every time I came out of the
operation theater we had stories to tell
each other he under a Wa and she had to
tell me Bobby ever since then hospital
stays were accompanied by movies music
and story books as I talk about story
books it reminds me of my time in school
yes I was in a lovely school with lovely
people around mrs. Braun the principal
of my school and mrs. Merritt’s my class
teacher we did a play back in school
when I was in grade 2 the Pied Piper of
Hamelin and guess who the Pied Piper was
no one else but me but then there’s not
waste in the story
so this on a play that had 45 children
ignored a play that had instruments
coming all the way from Holland then a
play where the script and the backdrop
was made by the teacher I felt sick two
days before the play
food poisoning yes and my teacher called
my mom to tell me to tell her that if
it’s inconvenient for Raji we can cancel
the play and I told mom and I told mom
that no I will do it and guess what I
did it
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but that was not for myself I did not do
it for myself now that I look back I
realize it was not for me it was for
mrs. Merritt I remember the smile on her
face every time I rehearsed and I
remember the joy that I had when I saw
that smile on her face amazing and
that’s the reason and that I did it
well the journey continued the journey
of school continued and I reached 10th
standard the board exam year and I was
there at the school for one of the board
exams that I was to give and we were
studying outside and there was this
little girl who didn’t have money torn
clothes dry skin begging there I didn’t
have much to offer but I had this huge
dairy milk that my mom had given me
because I skipped breakfast and I just
opened it and I gave it to her and oh my
god this is what she looked like she was
so happy she was so happy and seeing her
happy all my worries about the exam all
the stress had gone away and I was just
happy to see her happy beautiful amazing
it was well parallel to school life were
long hours of physiotherapy for me I was
just eight
I guess that time and I did not
understand the importance of what
physiotherapy is but I still use to
exercise you know why before telling you
the Y I’ll ask you an important question
the road to joy is comfortable and
enjoyable how many agree
okay how many disagree well the ones I
can’t see you but you’re right
so I used to do it not because I
understand it is good for me I used to
do it because every time I did it she
was so happy she was so happy and
believe me because I has to do it for
her
I learned climbing steps without any
support independently because I did it
for and if all these reasons are not
enough then find the need that drives
you the need that drives you mine was to
be needed yes to be needed and if you
have any effort to do that
I started this foundation called Isha
where we help people find the better
version of themselves and to find their
happiness they need to bring smiles on
the faces of people so here I am
extending my arm so stretch your arm to
express to care to love to show your
gratitude towards a happier life and in
this part of life you will be happy
thank you
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