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Our pathway to expression | Miguel Correia | TEDxYouth@IIL


well Kurt Cobain once said the GD of

youth is to fight corruption but is that

how we can do we did our place in

society in what unity well first I’d

like to clarify that when I talk about

place in society

I’m strictly invested a matter of having

a meaningful appeal in fact I believe

they structured and coherent opinion

always be social action you can even

achieve great proportions well unless

however emphasize the structuring and

coherent part in fact the right to have

a you mean like any other right carries

with it a great deal and

responsibilities too and if we are to

play me the strength we must also take

the equivalent responsibilities and here

comes the very first reasons why adults

often if you take teenagers obedient

servants because we have fewer

commitments as also still we won’t be

able to take the responsibilities that

an agreement calls for and unfortunately

many teenagers are in willing or

incapable to prove results from which

leads to more to the last phenomena of

changes non acceptance that cannot and

should not happen that’s why I’m here to

prove people teenagers and adults that

teenagers opinion matters and you have a

bigger place in society well the very

first reason why I think teenagers

opinion matters is because of the simple

fact that everything is subjective

this means that teenagers will see

things different perspectives an adult

will see different problems and believe

in seriously paid different ways to

solve this problem and this specially

concerns our generation I think since

there is there has been a generational

gap increased by advances in technology

and even suicide I’m not talking about

the old cliche teacher government’s how

to use Facebook I mean I’m talking about

for instance showing it elderly how to

be more tolerant like France math we

said the beauty of you

this beside my friends got to say the

youth is happy because of its capacity

to see beauty and we must keep there

showing adults how to keep seeing beauty

so they can keep being happy also I

believe that teenagers opinion really is

important and a place of teenagers and

society must be of most importance

because you are the future and if we

want to stop in just the future to

become the present one day we must leave

the real life with the real problems the

grown-ups world like babies that learn

how to walk to talk in to behave by

interacting with adults we must also

learn how to face real-life problems in

the real life world like Harry stone

Harry started said good a bit fun did

you make all the difference and this

good habit of forming your opinion is

one you must cultivate since your

teenager to do this there are three main

things I think you must all do the

parrot first is very simple and it is

just reading reading is the easiest way

to know about already gathered facts

just think about it you must you can

take your phone and in five seconds

you can find out about something that

people have spent years and decades of

their lives looking for you must retreat

to have basis for your opinion you don’t

have you don’t get to have anything that

doesn’t have any basis and in factual

basis besides when you read you also get

to see others opinions about more

controversial matters which means you

can build your own from different and

even contradict to your being the very

the second thing I think we should all

do is writing and sharing because when

you write something you are obliged to

see what you really think about this man

certain especially when it comes to more

controversial matters once again because

if you write something you have to put a

piece of yourself on a paper you have to

know

what you really think about that and

once you share it with someone you feel

that your opinion is recognized you feel

that her opinion matters but and it

certainly does so it’s important for all

of us to write and to share the last

thing I should ask you to do is not by

remind teenagers not to analyze adults

experience in fact just because adults

don’t always give us the importance we

need that doesn’t mean we mustn’t give

them the importance that their

experience has I think that if we are to

if you have to avoid doing great

mistakes we must learn from the ones

that pattern on the best

that’s why history with a capital H is

it most important if we want to avoid

those problems learn from the ones in

turn in the past

adults have lived longer than us they

have been through the same problems that

we now have and if we are not being if

you’re not able to see those problems

that you ask in order to help us we

won’t be able to avoid doing these

greatest mistakes

well because of all of this some friends

and I created a project called youth us

youth but mainly relies on a website and

it also has a Facebook page its goal is

to promote promotes teenagers opinion to

fill – so they can feel that their

opinion matters that someone is reading

that someone is listening to them what

we do is publish texts in our website

that’s that will come from anyone that

would like to share them with us but we

do have values of our team but many the

fact that the vast majority of deaths

from trauma brought and from other

people that doesn’t don’t don’t

necessarily know us or our project we

also propose a malice team so people can

have some more complete you write about

but many teenagers are just about

something they saw suddenly felt

remember I just said about adults

experience while we try to take it

we try to give it a lot of value to you

as youth us as we have an old fashioned

this section yes

this section has a lot of text from

famous people from people that have

recognition in our society and from

people that like to give something to

teenagers three people that applied to

share bit of their experience with their

wisdom with teenagers so teenagers can

take a real place in society this is

with youth parties but I’d like to talk

about two good things we felt brought to

me and to a lot of people the very first

is the best from a friend of mine called

Shuang Shuang wrote about an accident he

had he had a very serious accident a

buggy accident there was a lot of pain a

lot of suffering a lot of Tears a lot of

broken bones but he chose not to talk

about those things he didn’t want to be

the victim he chose to talk about

everything that you learned about seeing

good things in difficult and even

traumatic situations and the most

important thing is you got to show this

to almost a hundred thousand people that

read this text and in that moment he

will be indeed madam his opinion did

make a difference

and that’s what you thoughts exist for

the second thing I’d like to talk to you

about is what happened when we post

freedom as our months in well you expect

that when you propose freedom

measurement esteem people who write

about freedom of religion freedom of

speech or even just basic human rights

freedom but you didn’t get any text

about those kinds of freedom because

most dangerous

aren’t you concerned about those the

vast majority it talks about the lack of

freedom they felt in a society that it

was such a great deal of room the lack

of freedom they felt in the internet the

social in social network so it true

proves that teenagers see things from a

different perspective that teenagers see

different things different problems and

different ways to face them I can only

conclude that instead of trying to get a

place in society by following social

pressures and rules we must try to earn

our place by making a difference we’re

never going to change the world but

remind to inspire someone or change

someone’s mind like slowly remember

every social action starts with an idea

or a structure perspective it’s hard to

know [Applause]

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