What’s your happiness | Mphanda Mpazanje | TEDxYouth@BrookhouseSchool

let’s go back back in time to the past
to the last time you found yourself
truly happy how can it be that it’s been
so long it feels like decades of past
and that’s just wrong you listen to
songs laugh smile and play yet you say
hey am I happy surely you’re not sad
you’re just empty just it might be
tempting to think a little bit more of
yourself but don’t lie there’s just a
hollow shell where a human supposed to
be standing one can find time demanding
blood sweat tears all shed in the
pursuit of one thing happiness those
without it are busy hunting and those
who aren’t have no purpose feel useless
what’s your happiness without it this
depression an obsession with self
annihilation like a masochist hanging a
noose in the basement or you’ll be busy
trying to make a statement acts tough
act cool confident act like you’re
amazing you know fake it until you make
it but that’s just it you’re faking me
why can’t we see where we’re going wrong
following peer pressure like the grains
of sand in a sand storm like it’s our
National Anthem we’re moving in tandem
with the flow of the masses what do you
want
what’s your happiness mine lies in the
deep satisfaction that I hold
responsibilities over my own actions if
I want to study I study yes
that’s what happens no one can control
me no not with my passion my happiness
isn’t present in my everlasting thirst
for knowledge and truth a man whose
undying love for maths and science his
parents friends and brothers the
universe is God the world and all of
creation yes that’s me that’s my
happiness
what’s yours contemplate as I leave you
with this thought experiment
what’s your happiness thank you
you
[Applause]