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