Transcriber: Denise RQ Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo
It's hard for me to say yes.
It's easier for me to say
next year,
when the weather's fine,
when I have the money, or the time,
or the relationship I want.
Or the career, or the house,
or the car, or the watch.
Watch life pass me by, waiting for an invitation,
when the world is greater than my nation or my occupation.
The only thing I know is that we're all in this, together.
And the future of this Earth,
depends on how we treat each other.
But how we treat each other starts with how we treat ourselves.
And how we treat ourselves,
starts with how we see ourselves.
And how we see ourselves,
starts with context.
Nothing can exist
without its opposite.
Remember this
the next time you find you're in an argument,
both sides are talking, sh*
and you forget your point,
except you're angry now and want to win,
so you continue yelling,
till they give it up by giving in,
so you can stand victorious
because you're right
on...what, again?
That's why we send young people to war.
Young people tend to die without asking what for.
But one man's ceiling is another man's floor.
Let's meet up in between,
said the ocean to the shore.
Hopelessly inquisitive,
a mind without a master.
I watched "The Master" on a tab of acid,
then performed after,
and yet myself was an unparallel disaster
'cause all my poems came out as...
(Laughter)
Do you laugh on instinct
or do you choose to laugh?
Do you ask because you care
or do you merely ask?
I ask you this because I care about how humans act.
We're animals, aware of our future
and our past,
and this could be an obstacle to travelling our path.
Instead of just accepting where we are at,
we analyze our tracks for what we could've had,
looking back, focused on the memories
instead of on the facts, hence what we attract.
But it's hard the fact that when we're fast,
it really flashes past.
It's an exponential graph
from creation into ash.
I'm sentimental one minute,
then I'm making plans,
staking claims, shaking hands,
breaking out or breaking in.
I have about a billion mimes,
hidden underneath my skin.
And they push my face into this grin,
or paw my wrinkled forehead in.
So, pour the gin!
Philosphize,
'cause no one has your awesome eyes.
Your view is worth the lows and highs
we go through on the coastal rides.
Control has got us holding on
when letting go could be more fun.
Hands up!
Everybody put your hands up.
Now feel the drop.
Shake it up!
Eventually, this all has to stop.
Level out and come back up until we reach the very top,
'cause one day, all your wheels fall off
so take advantage of your shocks.
Do something you've never done,
do someone you've never done.
(Laughter)
Go some place you've never gone.
Some place that will scare you some.
Be someone you've never been.
You feel all that adrenaline?
It's medicine that jumpstart the spark inside your skeleton.
See? Everywhere you are, is where you're supposed to be.
So hopefully, you're hopelessly
as lost as me.
'Cause if you're not, you ought to be.
Welcome to TEDxHollywood!
(Applause)