[Music]

i heard this quote somewhere

and it struck a chord with me self-doubt

kills more dreams than failure ever will

hello everyone my name is sara shah

i'm a first time tedx speaker actually

this is the first time i'm ever speaking

about my ideas and life

on such a large platform i am here

to share my experiences about my journey

from bangalore to turtug ladakh

is the northernmost village of india

situated in the ladakh region 205

kilometers from

lay and the closest village to the

indo-park border

2.5 kilometers to be precise from there

is my home where i run a little primary

school for the children of that region

so much to share so much to talk about

how did i reach

the highest point not just on the map of

india

but also my life sounds divine

but it was a tough ride

i was born and brought up in bangalore

where

i completed my schooling and attained a

degree in interior design

i worked as a freelance designer and mc

and in the corporate sector for over two

years

i liked my work it paid well

but there was something always niggling

at me

some dissatisfaction some discomfort

does it sound familiar

was i happy i'm not sure

maybe not i was too young

to understand this emptiness within me

according to the norms of the society i

was

just beginning my life and doing well at

it

in short i did not have reason to

complain

or feel this way then why this feeling

i just couldn't fathom or understand

this disconnect if everything was good

then why did i feel this way i was

earning well

i was doing everything right then why

so many questions no answers

every time i spoke to someone i came

across a blank wall

no answers i had this need

this craving to find

that missing element i decided

to take a break move out for a bit

and explore myself

there was this desire to reach out and

work with children

which was stronger than ever before now

i wanted to go away for a bit everyone

around me said

a girl shouldn't travel and live alone a

few said

this is just a waste of time and many

more said

what can one person's teachings do

they laughed and they mocked but

my parents said if this is what you want

to do

if this is what makes you happy then do

it

i just went for it and

just an idea back then later shaped my

life

the minute i felt that this

change was doable and had to be done

everything just started feeling easy

i felt a weight being lift off my

shoulders

i first started as a volunteer

at a wonderful school in the mountains

of doda

which changed everything for me

i absolutely enjoyed and loved being

around kids

teaching them the very little i knew and

learning so much more from them

i learnt how to live a life

with just the basic necessities and it

just seemed so wonderful

i absolutely knew that this

is something that i'd want to do for the

rest of my life i wanted to be around

kids i wanted to

teach i had now discovered my inner

passion

with this passion of mine

i then moved to ladakh to volunteer at a

winter tuition program

in turtok by then i would already

receive messages from friends and family

asking me to return

back to the city and get a real job

but i had already found my real job

i was finally at peace i was happy

and every day seemed so satisfying

what more could one want

and the minute i reached turtok

in ladakh it was a little frozen village

with kids running all around me

a few with the rolling wheels and a few

sliding down the frozen stream

they all looked at me with curious eyes

and wondering who this new stranger was

back then in 2016 there was no internet

and barely one bar of network at certain

points

but honestly it did not matter i just

enjoyed being there the kids

would hurdle around me every evening

they wanted to know it all from galaxies

to planets

to mountains to planes to countries to

people to world history to modern art

they just had endless questions they

would sit around me until late evening

not wanting to go home winter turned to

spring

and spring into summer it was now

time to leave the village which meant

leaving a family

it was that with a very heavy heart

i decided to leave but with

a promise to return

there was no looking back now i knew

what i wanted to do and there was no way

that i wanted to get back to the city

for

good that was a very big decision

which meant compromising on my financial

security

but what would financial security mean

without

true happiness i would constantly

question myself

and continued i trusted myself enough

to sustain through this journey and i'm

glad

i did it definitely wasn't easy

there were many challenges from the

harsh weather conditions

to connectivity to lack of basic

resources

cultural differences language barrier

and many more

but the light at the end of the tunnel

kept me going i just

knew where i wanted to reach and there's

a saying

when you absolutely love what you do

everything seems so easy and that's

exactly what happened for me

things started falling in place and i

started celebrating

every little achievement of mine

and then a year later

i returned to the village and with the

support

of a then tourist and now a very close

friend

we set up turtuk valley school

a little primary school just

at the border for the region for the

children of that region

it entirely runs on a volunteering

program

and through donations from kind

strangers

and friends which are raised through

social media

social media definitely has been a

blessing

and this school is definitely a very big

achievement for me

every time i wake up and a day looks

gloomy

just this achievement brightens up

everything for me

remember everyone around you

will always tell you what they think you

should do

but always believe in the gut feeling of

yours

you know what your heart beats for go

for it

believe in yourself and work endlessly

towards your dreams

because today i know that this dream was

planted in my heart

for a reason and i'm forever grateful

to my parents for letting me take this

plunge

and not pushing me into the rat race

thank you

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我在某处听到这句话

，它触动了我的心弦自我怀疑

杀死了比失败更多的梦想，

大家好，我的名字是 sara shah，

我是第一次 tedx 演讲者，实际上

这是我第一次 在如此大的平台上

谈论我的想法和生活

我在

这里分享我

从班加罗尔到图尔图格的旅程的经历 拉达克

是印度最北端的村庄，

位于拉达克地区，距离莱伊 205

公里

，也是离印度公园最近的村庄

边境

2.5 公里，准确地说

是我的家，在那里我

为那个地区的孩子

们开办

了一所小小学

生活听起来很神圣，

但这是一段艰难的旅程

我在班加罗尔出生并长大，在那里

我完成了学业并获得

了室内设计

学位 两年

我喜欢我的工作，报酬不错，

但总有一些事情

让我烦恼

一些不满意 一些

不适 听起来很

熟悉吗 我很高兴 我不确定

也许不是 我太年轻了

，无法根据规范来理解我内心的空虚

社会我

刚刚开始我的生活并且做得

很好简而言之我没有理由

抱怨

或有这种感觉那么为什么这种感觉

我无法理解或理解

这种脱节如果一切都很好

那么我为什么会有这种感觉 我

赚钱的方式

我做的一切都是正确的那么为什么

这么多问题

每次我和某人说话都没有答案我

遇到一堵空白的墙

没有答案我有这种渴望

找到缺失的元素我

决定休息一下搬出去 有一段

时间探索自己

有这种

与孩子们一起工作的愿望

比以往任何时候都更强烈现在

我想离开一段时间

我周围的每个人都说

一个女孩不应该旅行和 一个人住

一些人说

这只是浪费时间，

更多人说

一个人的教义能做什么

他们笑了，他们嘲笑但

我的父母说如果这是你

想做的事情

如果这是让你快乐的事情那就去做

吧 就去做了，

当时只是一个想法，后来塑造了我的

生活

当我觉得这种

改变是可行的并且必须完成的那一刻，

一切都开始变得轻松起来

多达山上

的一所很棒的学校，它改变

了我的一切 太棒了

我绝对知道这

是我余生都想做的事情我想和我想教的孩子在一起

我现在发现了我内心的

热情

搬到拉达克，在 turtok 的一个

冬季补习项目做志愿者

那时我已经

收到朋友和家人的消息，

要求我

回到城市找一份真正的工作，

但我已经找到了真正的工作，

我终于平静了 我很开心

，每一天似乎都如此令人满意，

还有什么可以满足的

，当我到达拉达克

的 turtok 的那一刻，那是一个冰冻的小村庄

，孩子们在我周围跑来跑去，

一些带着滚动的轮子，还有一些

沿着冰冻的溪流滑下

用好奇的眼睛看着我

，想知道这个新陌生人

在 2016 年当时是谁，当时没有互联网

，在某些时候几乎没有一个网络，

但老实说，我只是

喜欢在那里，孩子

们每天晚上都会在我身边跨栏

想知道从星系

到行星

到山脉到飞机到国家从

人到世界历史再到现代艺术的

一切他们只是有无穷无尽的问题他们

会坐在我身边直到深夜 ng

不想回家 冬天变成

春天 春天变成夏天 现在

是离开村庄的时候了，这意味着

离开一个

家庭 是我怀着沉重的

心情决定离开，

但承诺回来

没有回头 现在我

知道我想做什么，

而且我不可能永远回到这座城市

，这是一个非常重大的决定

，这意味着要损害我的财务

安全，

但是如果

没有

真正的幸福，财务安全意味着什么我会不断

质疑 我自己

并继续我相信自己

足以维持这段旅程，我很

高兴

我做到了这绝对不容易

有许多挑战，从

恶劣的天气条件

到连通性到缺乏基本

资源

文化差异语言障碍

等等，

但是 隧道尽头的光

让我继续

前进 是的，这

正是发生在我身上的

事情，事情开始落实到位，我开始庆祝我的

每一个小成就

，然后一年后

我回到了村庄，在

当时的游客和现在非常亲密的朋友的支持下，

我们建立了 turtuk 山谷学校

是一所

位于该地区边境的小小学，为该地区的

孩子们服务，

它完全依靠志愿服务

计划，

并

通过社交媒体社交媒体筹集的善意陌生人和朋友的捐款，这

绝对是一种

祝福

，这所学校 对我来说绝对是一个非常大的

成就，

每次我醒来，一天看起来很

阴沉，

只是这个成就照亮

了我的一切，

记住你周围的每个人

都会告诉你他们认为你

应该做什么，

但始终相信你的直觉

知道你的心跳是

为了什么，

相信自己，

为自己的梦想不懈努力，

因为今天我知道 他的梦想

在我心中种

下是有原因的，我永远

感谢我的父母让我冒险

而不是让我陷入激烈的竞争

谢谢