you don’t know me but I am willing to
bet you are going through something very
difficult at the moment you wake up
every day thinking how a life’s passing
you by what kind of life do you want to
live and that no one understands you
maybe it’s your last term in school and
the idea of being out there in the real
world terrifies you maybe you’re
thinking of shifting to another course
are you thinking about all the people
who have not been supportive of what you
want to do in life or maybe you’re
asking yourself this question where am I
headed while you’re at it you are being
pressured by the people around you in
the situation’s you a everyday people
number one ask what have you been doing
lately if you can’t come up with
anything
she will compare you to your siblings
and your cousins who she thinks who are
more successful than you are it’s
becoming repetitive to the point that
you don’t attend family gatherings
anymore people number two is like a
fortune teller she will look at you from
head to toe and from there she will have
a clear vision of what your life’s going
to be five years from now of course you
will just come up with some ridiculous
predictions you know how to eat azar but
sometimes you actually wish teeth on
number two is a real fortune teller if
you actually wish that this theta can
fast forwards I see what the future is
like for you and I wish I can tell you
life will get better it won’t and it’s
okay I know this because three years ago
I was 25 in a Content
where I did not know anyone nor did I
speak the language I was pushed down
pressured Chris taking advantage of
rejected broken into fifty thousand
pieces
if these adversary’s helped me become
stronger and more resilient and believe
me when I say you needed to it will
always come challenges problems
adversaries they are never-ending it
happens to all life-forms we are totally
in control on how to respond don’t
reject it embrace it though move pass it
go through it don’t anticipate stop
bracing yourself for are the future
should be exciting not scary and always
remember the future will always work
itself out it will happen slowly quietly
and it will be a very very beautiful
journey as long as you have passion and
enthusiasm you will be fine
you just need to believe that what you
are doing is important because it really
is no matter how big or small as long as
it feels right it will fit it’s about
the strong feeling you have towards a
certain thing you want to pursue not if
the choice is right or wrong do not go
through your daily life just to get by
do it right and do it with all your
heart
getting by will eat you alive whatever
it is that you do passion is essential
to happiness you have this fearing wheel
you are holding it go in the direction
of your dreams be whoever you want to be
challenges will make you become a
warrior princess Darth Vader cap
in America you will feel stronger than
you’ve never been before because when
you come to think of it it is not life
that gets better you get better it’s you
I am going to tell you a secret humans
are programmed to believe that the older
you are the wiser you are do you believe
that well it’s partly true but what I
want to tell you is that you don’t
always have to have a clear picture of
what you’re doing in life people who are
3 4 5 10 years older than you are don’t
have figured out the communal they
of the school or the smartest person as
this room don’t have figured out
all the people you admire who appears to
have their together really they
don’t have figured out you don’t
believe me okay when you go home tonight
I want you to ask your parents or your
older siblings ma ba I think we yeah
they have life figured out do you have
everything figured out but don’t say
straight okay just and when you get
their answer let me know what they told
you please send me an email Millennials
are the most obsessed when it comes to
finding themselves I don’t get me wrong
I’m also part of this generation I’m not
excluding myself
we keep obsessing about things before it
actually happens we keep putting misery
and drama tor being single
we keep fantasizing what the future
should look like we are filled with
overpowering sadness and discouragement
for no reason at all our generation is
so eager about the output we always skip
the process you know we like shortcuts
in a notebook where you pretend to write
your weekly bits and lectures you
actually created a time line for
yourself and it’s not meant to be broken
2015 I am going to find a good
internship 2015 I am going to pass my
thesis defense 2016 I will graduate
college 2017 I will have a high-paying
job these are beautiful dreams and I
want you to know that there is nothing
wrong about plotting the time of your
life I can’t blame you we are raised in
the kind of society where we should
always be prepared for battle for war to
compete to be on top but what if it
doesn’t turn out the way you want it
because the reality is things never turn
out the way we plan it nobody respects
the timeline we make for ourselves
because times change and we should
respond to that change I understand why
our planning thoroughly and worrying too
much
insomnia panic attacks nail biting you
feel like you want a mount to anything
in the future and that is not true there
is always thing out there for you
because there are no right or wrong
choices this is the best time to explore
the many different versions of yourself
so please don’t hold back
you might finish a degree in MMA and be
a professional surfer after graduation
or you can work in an office with a high
salary you can be an artist with
part-time gigs you can be a lawyer an
office clerk a full-time mom a preschool
teacher a pastry chef a factory worker
or you can travel the world to let me
tell you that these careers are good and
have you actually met someone who is
good at doing what he doesn’t like you
have all the right to choose whatever
you want to do in life because this is
where you will thrive this is where you
will excel don’t think about what he
wants what she wants what your teachers
want what your parents want what your
teeth us want what do you want what do
you want it took a long time for me to
answer this question because I was
always bracing myself for the war I
didn’t think about what I wanted I was
obsessed about the career idea that the
people around me would praise me for at
17 fresh of high school I had two things
I really liked football and politics I
wanted to be a lawyer so my wonderful
mother enrolled me in an all-girls
school where I can take up my pre-law I
was also lucky enough to be admitted in
the college’s football team but after a
year I found myself not liking my course
so I moved here and took up MMA
football was still a part of my system I
played for the Lady Blazers and I was
really happy I thought I was okay with
MMA until I met mr. Robbins Hirano who
told me Trisha
you’re very good with PR you might want
to consider shifting to arch ma arts
management at the time I wasn’t
excelling in MMA because I don’t know
about anything animation or
whatever it is that the MMA people are
doing so even if I knew my mother would
possibly kill me I shifted to arts
management again I thought I wanted to
pursue visual arts arts theatre
marketing but companies this time I told
Sir Robin sir my thesis is about fashion
I was an intern for Roberto Cavalli in
Milan
kela lucky enough I got an internship in
Italy and that changed my worldview that
changed what I want to do in life after
all these I’m sorry but I did not work
in any field related to politics mme
arts management fashion not even
football I traveled the world because
that was the opportunity presented
before me I also became a writer which
is so crazy because I never had any
journalism background I just loved
writing and to get to what I am doing
right now the one I can say I really
love I had to try the many different
versions of myself I learned that we
don’t need to get it right the first
time
it’s trial and error it was like trying
different outfits every morning and
finding the one that looks pleasant when
you face the mirror I took whatever what
is in front of me and found a pair that
worked another opportunity my passion
led me to is to be an ambassador for
girl rising an organization helping
educate girls all over the world who
cannot go to school while we are here
comfortably sitting in this theater
stressing figuring out where we are
headed 14 million girls are not allowed
to go to school in Nepal boys can go to
school but girls are forced to bonded
labor at 6:00 in Africa girls are child
brides at 7 in Afghanistan nine-year-old
girls are already giving birth this
endeavor brought me to different parts
of the world and I knew how it was to be
a girl in other parts of the world but I
am not saying this to make you feel bad
about other people’s challenges I am
saying this because it’s happening and
you need to know that all these having 5
years are going up to now I’m still
traveling and writing
um it’s not all me though you know I
strongly believe that having a good
community will always have your back
it’s one of the biggest factors that
will lead you to a good life surround
yourself with people who love you with
people who support you anyone who will
contribute to your positive self counts
they’re essential to your well-being and
I promise you they will help you go far
traveling writing educating ah now I can
say I filed what I want to do in life
however I’m not sure if these are the
things I will be doing for the rest of
my life maybe at 30 I will move to Hong
Kong and marry the love of my life maybe
at 40 I’ll have a midlife crisis and
decide I want to be a chef instead maybe
at 50 I will write a best-selling book
and my own apartment in Mauritius I
don’t know that you don’t know that
nobody knows that what about success you
might ask I mean the end game of all
these is being successful right it
actually depends how you define success
versus society or other people perceive
it in my case success is waking up in
the morning or the kick-ass mood writing
whatever I want
inspiring touching the lives of the
people I meet loving and sharing I
wanted to put it as we are all
successful in our own ways look closely
and you’ll find all these concrete ways
of measuring your success some things
will to live by when banana ladonna
Dalai Lama the world doesn’t need more
successful people the world needs more
peacemakers healers resource
storytellers
lovers of all kind another thing our
generation is forgetting is living in
the present my friend life is right now
not yesterday not tomorrow not next week
definitely not in a month life is right
now life is happening as I am speaking
on this stage as you are listening to me
as your minds are playing tricks about
the things I’m telling you that’s all
happening right now stop thinking about
the future and focus about today the
sooner you learn how to live in the now
the sooner you will be happy and fear
and apologetic self I want all of you to
stop and look around you this is a
school that allows you to be whoever you
are
the morning you wake up to come here you
already have the freedom and I want you
to see that the fact that you can decide
what to wear in the school grounds
whether you want to be a pond
an anime character a nerd all these are
accepted in the school grounds the
teachers are incredibly supportive too
and I don’t understand why some of you
fear them they are not monsters
they are your teachers they are your
second parents these are familiar faces
you see on a daily basis why worry they
there is no reason for you to feel
limited pressured or confused you have
all the resources to live a good life
here all the people you admire all the
people change your life are here the
journey to finding yourself and growing
up is harsh painful exhilarating heart
rating exciting
confusing all at the same time because
there’s never a certain answer nobody’s
got life figured out sit back relax
enjoy be a child make beautiful mistakes
pick yourself up from anniversary be a
person full of love live like every day
is the first day of your life choose
your battles enjoy silence learn how to
keep quiet accept defeat learn to
forgive fear but stop figuring out where
you are headed
have a little faith even just a little
above all feel people who experience
deep emotions are actually the ones that
live the best life even though I did not
promise you that life gets better soon
enough you will find something you will
have strong feelings for this I can
promise you I would like to end today
for this passage from the 1996 movie
Jack Robin Williams was the lead
character and in one of the scenes he
said please don’t worry so much because
in the end none of us has very long on
this earth life is fleeting and if you
ever distrust cast your eyes to the
summer sky when the stars are strung
across the velvety night and when a
shooting star streaks through the
darkness turning night and today make a
wish
and think of me make your life
[Applause] [Music]