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Reclaiming the right to give | Hettie Colquhoun | TEDxFrome


I love it I discovered said when I was

like 19 even it was my mom that passed

up a really cool phone to me and so

you’ll find out in a minute why this is

sort of sweet serendipity in that and I

love Ted because it was an opportunity

to see these crazy a thread of all

different ideas for regrets of different

places and I was kind of nervous when I

saw the list of people coming today and

a lot of science in there and you know

I’ve got about four gcses to my name and

a few a level that I think I’ve

discarded it’s difficult well I’m not

qualified but you don’t need to be

qualified to help people I went out to

cali about a year and a half ago and I’m

now based in Greece and I wasn’t sure

how to translate how I felt in the

forums I had in a way that wasn’t

challenging you too much so this is what

I did aspire to inspire aspire to

inspire like it’s my duty to light your

fire like I’m playing puppetmaster the

guiding pastor the light at the end of

an unbuilt tunnel nothing I do can show

you anything you don’t already know to

be true your inspiration is already

there hidden under the soggy discarded

leaves of past ideas and long forgotten

dreams whilst you’re busy buying

self-help books that I’m not paying

someone else the pound unlock their

version of the profound listening to the

innovations and calling them

inspirations as if the collective

history we call mankind isn’t yours

unwind as much as every speaker you’ve

heard for me walk away from today as

know that what moved you proves to you

you’re part of that picture not on a

spectrum like if the line you get

some one that runs through you no longer

speculating but accepting your part in

your pet chew ating this incredible

effort to improve ascribed inspire

that’s a vague sense of maybe like it’s

a dream to aim for on a demand for more

aspire is like an unlit funeral pyre do

and done please take the taste of your

ideas and run and in company such

actions will get permission to other

factions society to welcome this

newfound empowers a variety aspire to

inspire like it’s my duty to light your

fire I can’t playing puppetmaster the

guiding pastor the light at the end of

an under tunnel nothing I do can show

you anything you don’t already know to

be true reclaiming the right to give

claiming the right to give removing the

photo of the stricken child twice

defiled once by the fate that rose and

second by the photo you chose to stick

on your kitchen walls or that later

amongst your friends you could recall

the gift gave a life you save fed by big

NGO multipliers to showcase for one star

they’re shiny happy faces it claimed you

car its inability to trust the money is

going where it must justify as another

desire the satisfaction to self Maya in

doing so documenting secret pains that

we may measure some qualitative game

every morning we labored to explain by

those coming to health should refrain

from snapping shots of babies faces to

share that for more crowing stories from

the chocolates of those of whom they

chose to impose that us in curiosity

don’t get me wrong it is good to share

to be present and then the common thread

lay bare with our actual and cons of

duty of care we wear good intent isn’t

always heaven vent the cleaning the

right to give emancipate yourself from

seduction and the selfie be proud put

your hands where they’re needed most not

where you most want them to be breathing

deep the satisfaction of not waiting for

another eyes to praise you as kind or

wise see for yourself or well forgive in

letting go of his move

show some evidence of your

professionality in pictures which

instead whisper deep cleaning the right

to give in night your page yourself from

a seduction of a selfie be proud to put

more hands where they needed most not to

know where you must want them to be

breathing the deep satisfaction of not

waiting for another’s eyes to praise you

as kind away see if you are self or

wealth you give in letting go of this

need to always show some evidence of

your professed Humanity in pictures

which instead whispers a deep profanity

compassion like a lover taking the space

between their lips and your ear to mama

sweet somethings compassion slips in the

spaces we Eve between ourselves and

others the fragile moments where we

clean choices die the Nuremberg defense

phase he agreed from right and in order

to a subordinate is proportionate to the

pain it causes to the souls it destroys

making soldiers are two baby boys

fighting from wars estate give is us and

learning the sled desire to protect the

tribe of what and charity we see a false

ideology vote for a week sense of

reciprocity but compassion is set to

those we identify a commonality we

explain color religion gender or

nationality the meeting was hopeful

booths are only reaching out to those in

our perceived neighborhood set your

sense of self free by accepting you can

eliminate the need to know me to help me

to reach you can seek to improve the

conditions of another without blaming

who your brother you can hate the very

rhetoric I fo and yet still bestowed

decency let rise compassion which cannot

by definition be enclosed on a rationing

car both free from the facade pins by

the hands of small-minded haters a clean

face shape far from alone it’s all you

ve a big physical attorney humanity

denotes a common goal we use it to

promote a higher sense of unity and

fraternity yet in the same breath of

claim on nature krugman a crime then

able to change the course hated eating

rivers of blood leading ourselves

australian by the very nature

tre your fellow being these two concepts

come to mind we cannot both be uniquely

compassionate and wholly loved loved

fighting wars from stately us and then

his learn desire to protect the tribe

within Warren’s charity we see a false

ideology built from a sense of

reciprocity the compassion is set to

those we identify a commonality its skin

color religion gender or nationality

limiting our scope for good by only

reaching out to those in our casita

neighborhood hope is what makes us human

we talk of dreams our hope and vote

whether utopia which in itself denotes

the better Nick you’re a species Adam

and dr. be drowned out by the rivers we

have filled with the fact a person plans

an animal we wage war our cantankerous

bickering fills TV screens so much so

we’d all our pain divine two pills and

she thrills and yet through the fog we

hope we talk of dreams this yearning for

Humanity diminishes with every breath

previous depravity hope this what makes

a spoon it is the ability to learn from

our past recognize our present and bills

for a future feared Inc linked deep in

our biology to protect us hope is the

humanity that guides how we use and

diffuse these instincts while fear can

throw easily divided hope brings endless

possibilities if I get overly angry at

you or another’s actions the various

infighting between goodwill factions I

beg you hold back and don’t force F just

all offensive indignation in its place

relate the tire dogged hides I got your

way won’t ever lose the sense of hope

the knowledge that our collective self

can be better than our current state

animal froze nearly built up high roller

from steadfast faith in bettering this

up otherwise of second-rate hope is what

makes us human there’s the ability to

learn from our past to recognize our

presence and build our future feasting

Ethan on biology protectors hope is the

humanity that guides how we use in

diffuse these instincts whilst here

comes up easily divided operates in

those possibilities mirror movement a

sense of a nun life are crying energy

the sensation of relentless energy sons

were beating dominance movements hot

eats a persistent from the Revolutionary

flags waving in the hands of a populist

causing shivers like velvet ripples

across my skin you’re ready to stir

change from we’re getting embraced

together from the bottom to the top not

a single blade of grass but a title see

formed from the outcry reverberating the

inner plea moved not by wounds by others

pain may bear that we they’re not

together as one birds of a feather born

from the acts of flocking together a

nameless pact that we will not sit down

one sees fit to label misery is Facebook

complete their freedom just simple

eminence fable this great green promised

land rose we feel the way to the farmers

leaf in what he sews just over is the

knowledge of a more complex picture like

eyes the night adjusting a depth of

knowledge thrusting the decision of

where to draw the line on the backs of

the long-term my unqualified hands have

somehow made you defining policy and

protocol a jungle law for our fellow

volunteer to draw out any doubts of good

attention they ill every morning the

passionate drill hoping to fill the

newcomers mind with an sense of

professionalism in the sea of counter

altruism don’t let the grassroots

movement the air cacophony of blase

blames and the mouths of the bottom he

is at the top the online world a false

faces and fake happy places where we

sign the passing stapler discuss online

petitions which only echoes and distant

recognition of a revolution in an unreal

stuff fear that your actions can be made

to disappear between the comfort of your

cushion on the sofa and the promise of

the next netflix series yet to be seen

not a single blade of grass but a tidal

see form from the outcry reverberating

the inner police who’s knocked by you

but by others pain

laid there that we dare not knock

together as one birds of a feather born

from the axis flocking together Elena’s

pact that we will not sit down whilst

why do you fit to label another’s misery

a fait accompli that we could just some

other man’s feed your voice the choices

you make we the Legion don’t wait for

self-serving reason to motivate that

feat we both Liz in every space we

placement upon occasion a crucial but

lightning speed we at the fraction of

our current dissatisfaction the power is

not in the Facebook post in which we

bros with corporate for those

same privilege to entities hands us

daily the tools we need to remake the

mold through the items be Phi and thus

our soul are they spending feeding the

picture we value against and if every

penny we part with which feeds are more

advices isn’t an account that one day

future generations will be made to

settle in the most possible way because

if the ones that make the policy are the

only ones to blame we don’t have to

remember it was less that put them there

your voice also means of choices that

you make the time you spend upholding

take a breath deep breath normally and

ot the flow and again with me let your

bloody your body explore the extractive

satisfaction of full-blown capacity the

choice of love and acting for the sake

of humanity is the best drug on the

market there’s no context like learning

to use every chamber of your lungs never

before feeding the gas goal of oxygen so

utterly it leaves your organs wheeling

happily knowing their own bounds you

found you two in forsaking expectations

personal gain will awaken the wealth

always waiting inside of you we the

legion don’t wait for a self-serving

reason to motivate feet we built within

every space we place them a pulling

station a crucial but likeness leave a

fraction of a hurry

faction the power is not in the Facebook

post in which we both so corporate

those same private entities can

just daily the tools we need to remake

them all to identify and that’s assault

are they be spending healing the future

we’re aliens as if every penny depart

with which we don’t want vices isn’t an

account that one day future generations

will be nice’ sexual with in the worst

possible way aspire to inspire because

if we want to make the policy of the

early ones the thing we don’t have to

remember they possess that put them

there your voice also need two choices

that you make time you spend upholding

the values you wish to protect and

defend movement the sense of an undying

fire burning energy the sensation of

relentless energy sons releasing wrongs

smoothens heartbeats a persistent from

the Revolutionary flags waving in the

hands of a populist causing shivers like

velvet ripples across my skin ready to

change from within and embrace together

from the bottom to the top we talked

with roots of hope work’s water utopia

which in itself the nodes of Mecca

nature of our species how they would not

be drowned out by the rivers we have

filled for the death of personal funds

an animal we weighed all our

cantankerous nick wingfield TV screen so

much so we thought our pain mind the

pills and he thrilled and yet yet

through the font we hope we talk or

blues this yearning for Humanity

diminishes with every breath previously

proud like a lover taking the space

between her lips and got year to moma

sweet subduing is compassion tips the

spaces we leave between ourselves and

others fragile moment where we cleaning

these compliance in an order to a sordid

disproportionate to the pain it causes

it to the songs it destroys making

soldiers out of baby boys fed by the NGO

margatroid to show coast so once dog now

shiny happy faces they gain you call its

inability to trust the money is going

where it must justifies another desire

the satisfaction self admire in doing so

documenting secret pain that mean you

measure some qualitative game listening

to the innovations and calling the

inspirations as if the collective

history before mankind isn’t yours to

unwind as much as every speaker you’ve

heard before me walk away from today and

know that what moved you prove to you

you’re part of that picture not on a

spectrum that the line you get placed on

the one that went through you no longer

speculating but accepting your part in

petrol eating incredible effort to improve

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