We Are Going to Die But Its Worth It

ladies and gentlemen

not so long ago someone came to me and

said tio

i don’t know where we are going

but it’s going to be wonderful

and strange

okay i assumed that person was

referencing to life

okay uh well my dear friends

i know where we are going

yes uh i’m pretty sure that

we’re going to die

surprise so

obviously there is nothing wonderful

about dying and

surely it’s not strange as we’re all

going to be

six feet on the ground

but frankly i don’t give a damn

about this destination what matters

is the journey it is a share of wonders

and surprises that we

cherish and create sense in our lives

and thankfully we do not know how

it will end but it is

the beauty and the cruelty of our lives

indeed life is quite an experience

i don’t know for you ladies and

gentlemen but there is no place or

time i would rather be in than today

what yeah i know i know

at the moment we’re facing a massive mad

situation but

uh honestly i still find some pleasure

on this good earth

like i don’t know the beauty of nature

the love between communities but also

the respect of our democratic seas

trump what a man but

um honestly if i’m only thinking about

the end of the journey

there is no doubt i will end up in a

lethargic state

why would i want to do anything in my

life knowing that it’s going to end

and furthermore that in my end

prematurely

from old age from an accident

or from a virus i think

it will be extremely difficult

to find some sense in this life if we

only think about its ending

i mean if we go this way

you might just want to stay in your room

and listen to to die

every day and wait for your time to come

and yeah maybe i should stop please

myself

or with other people and maybe you

people

behind your screens doing whatever i

don’t want to know

maybe you should stop it i mean why

should you we’re going to die

thankfully we do not all think this way

i’d like to share with you a little

story ladies and gentlemen this sad and

yet very funny story as it talks about

my unique journey in the world of

studies

so basically i was a wonderful student

until i was seven then it was a complete

disaster

i even repeating once but eventually

eventually i made it to a deck

yes so i can repeat another time

only this time it costed 10 000 euros

and daddy wasn’t laughing no he

he definitely wasn’t so

maybe you’re asking yourself

in any case i ask myself and a lot of

times

theodore why in the world are you not

moving you’re sorry but

why well

i couldn’t find sense in what i was

doing i wasn’t

stimulated enough and i desperately

wanted to leave my country

so i can discover a new one

so in my second year

i decided to put everything in my power

in order to get

a student exchange in australia

and i got it mate yes on this day

the 23rd of february 2020 i was

proudly waving at my photo with my two

luggages

and shouting at the top of my lungs see

you in six months oh man

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you probably know where we are going

with the story don’t you

yes a pangolin decided otherwise

said that one mouth is largely enough

i insist ladies and gentlemen this was

supposed to be

the time of my life a beer in each end

the sun burning my white body and

oh and the australian people

i enjoyed every single moment i had

in this country

so seriously

do you really believe that if i knew all

of this

i would have done it the same just so i

can come back to my country four weeks

later with a damn sleep mask on my face

if i’m sharing with you this story it’s

just in order to illustrate how

pathetic it is to anticipate your future

of course if i knew the end of the

journey

it wouldn’t make any sense to go in

australia of course

but there is another example that will

illustrate the absurdity to anticipate

your future

and it’s the story of robin williams

ladies and gentlemen i’m a huge fan of

cinema i could talk about it for hours

one of the greatest means in order to

share your ideas your values your

passion

how you look at society in the first

place and one of the greatest

in this art was robin williams

nobody could make me laugh like this man

or inspire me in order to use the right

tone

to convince people to make them laugh

and yeah i could definitely feel the

thrill he felt when he was interacting

with his public

one of the best

and yet this man

who brought so much joy

to millions of people

took his own life because of the pain he

had in his heart

i have no explanation regarding

why he had to go this way

but i do have one question for you

do you think that if robin knew his

destiny

we would have met mrs doubtfire

the end of the journey is the same for

everyone my dears

and no idea regarding how or when it

will happen

and yet we must live

but one of the ways to be at peace with

your death

is to appreciate your time during this

journey of life

and in order to do so you must find

sense in your life because again ladies

and gentlemen i really want to say this

please believe me we’re going to die

yes it’s happening right now you might

not notice it

but your cells are taking good care of

this for you believe me so

why should you cry on something that is

inevitable

shouldn’t it be better to first make

peace with your death before finding

sins

in your life for your life makes sense

because of what you experience in it

and make no mistakes ladies and

gentlemen our common journey

is far from being over yes at the moment

we are at war with a virus

but tomorrow we’ll have to face

the climate change that will not only

frighten our environment

but will also threaten life itself

enough

which means impacting our entire

civilization

and i’m not quite sure it will be that

funny to have a barbecue at 30 degrees

in december

nah nah and also

we’ll have to face the evolution of bio

and info technology

and if you have any sort of interest in

keeping your free will you might want to

take a closer look to those technologies

that might know

you better than yourself in the not too

distant future

question how we supposed to overcome

those challenges if we don’t have

sense in our lives

well personally there is a passion of

mine to help me find

since in my life and this passion

it’s a korean martial art that i’ve been

practicing for 20 years

i’ve been a competitor i represent in my

country i know what it is to fight

but let me just point out something

right away to you ladies and gentlemen

i used to hate hate hurting people

you you do see the little issue here

when the

one of the main aspect of taekwondo is

clearly kicking

people in the face thus obviously

hurting them

so again here we are same problem i had

at school

didn’t make any sense for me to go

training to eat properly

or to be serious in any case

so guess who showed up being too heavy

and unprepared for 14 years

this little boy right here countless of

times i got

badly beaten by guys that were not

necessarily better than me but surely

more accurate they knew why they were

fighting and

it made sense for them so obviously

they won but

one of the good things shall i say the

great thing about taekwindo

is the fact that it’s not just a sport

it’s an art of life which means

my thought regarding competition and

finding

change given everything i have

experienced in my life

so yes i learn

like in this wonderful year of 2020 that

we just went by

and that surely wasn’t the best year of

my life but by far

the most instructive i learned that in a

fight you can’t win by holding back or

restrain your abilities

you have to engage but like my trainer

told me

not just the muscles you have to engage

with your soul

because this is how i progress this is

how i learn

and it is exactly the same in your life

believe me i know i will eat

many other kicks in the face i know i

will have

my sorry butt on the ground again and

again

but now i know that if i give enough

time passion love

and faith i can find sins

in anything i want to achieve

believe me the game is still on

its defeat that got me here so there is

no way i’m going to stop now

and yeah maybe you ask me sure if you

don’t yeah yeah

yeah yeah but what if you don’t make it

even if i don’t make it i’ll keep the

faith

because don’t you agree that during this

journey

some moments make it worth it

in a way they make the journey

worth to die for don’t they yeah

ladies and gentlemen before i go

i’d like to ask you one last little

question

would you like to live forever i’m

i’m really asking you this question

would you like this life

to go on for eternity

for me the answer is pretty simple

absolutely not this will be the worst

for me

where will be the passion if i have 200

years to live

how many lives that i have cherished

will leave me

before my time comes

it wouldn’t make any sense for me

you see i embrace this journey

every morning because

i do believe that sense in life

is also about sharing

or at least trying to share

and yeah maybe

maybe our sense in life

isn’t in the success of sharing

but the attempt

of trying

but hey ladies and gentlemen i’m only a

little child of 23 years old

it might be all nonsense everything i

just told you it’s

clearly possible yeah yeah but

like a grey man once told me

do not believe me do not but you know

just give it a try

who knows might be worth it

ladies and gentlemen thank you very much

for listening take care of yourselves