求TED的「在残破背后生存」英文原文,谢谢

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求TED的「在残破背后生存」英文原文,谢谢

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鎵剧殑涓嶅?鏄撳晩,鏈熷緟缁欏垎
Amy Purdy:Living beyond limits
FILMEDMAY 2011 • POSTEDNOV 2011 • TEDxOrangeCoast
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- If your life were a book and you were the author,how would you want your story to
go?That's the question that changed my life forever.Growing up in a hot Las
Vegas desert,all I wanted was to be free.I would daydream about traveling a world,
living in a place where it snowed,and I would picture all of the stories that I would go
on to tell.At the age of 19,the day after I graduated high school,I moved to a place
where it snowed,and I became a massage therapist.With this job all I needed were
my hands and my massage table by my side,and I could go anywhere.For the first
time in my life,I felt free,independent and completely in control of my life.That is,
until my life took a detour.
- I went home from work early one day,with what I thought was the flu.And less
than 24 hours later,I was in a hospital,on my support,with less than a 2% chance of
living.It wasn't until days later,as I lay in a coma,that the doctors diagnosed me with
bacterial meningitis,a vaccine-preventable blood infection.Over the course of two
and a half months,I lost my spleen,my kidneys,the hearing in my left ear,and both
of my legs below the knee.
- When my parents wheeled me out of the hospital,I felt like I've been pieced back
together like a patchwork doll.I thought the worst was over until weeks later when I
saw my new legs for the first time,because they were bulky blocks of metal,with
pipes bolted together for the ankles,and the yellow rubber foot with the raised rubber
line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein.I didn't know what to expect,but I
wasn't expecting that.With my mom by my side and tears streaming down our
faces,I strapped on these chunky legs,and I stood up.They were so painful and so
confining that all I could think was how am I ever going to travel the world in these
things?How was I ever going to live the life full of adventure and stories as I always
wanted,and how was I going to snowboard again?
- That day I went home,I crawled into bed,and this is what my life was like for the
next few months.Me passed out,escaping from reality with my legs resting by my
side.I was absolutely,physically,and emotionally broken.(Sob.) But I knew that in
order to move forward I had to let go of the old Amy and learn to embrace the new
Amy.And that's when it dawned on me that I didn't have to be 5' 5" any more.I
could be as tall as I wanted.Or as short as I wanted,depending on who I was
dating.And if I snowboarded again,my feet aren't going to get cold.And best of all,
I thought,I can make my feet the size of all the shoes that are on the sales rack.
And I did.So there were benefits here.It was this moment that I asked myself that
life-defining question:If my life were a book and I were the author,how would I want
the story to go?And I began to daydream.I daydreamed like I did as a little girl.
And I imagined myself walking gracefully,helping other people through my dream,
and snowboarding again.And I didn't just see myself carving down a mountain of
powder,I could actually feel it,I could feel the wind against my face,and the beat of
my racing heart as if it were happening in that very moment.And that is when a new
chapter in my life began.
- Four months later I was back upon a snowboard,although things weren't going to
go quite as expected.My knees,and my ankles when it bend and at one point I
traumatized all the skiers on a chair-lift when I fell and my legs still attached to my
snowboard,would fly in the other mountain.And I was on top of the mountain,still.I
was so shocked,as,just as shocked as everybody else,and I was so discouraged.
But I knew it,if I could find the right pair of feet,that I would be able to do this again.
And this was when I learned that our borders and our obstacles can only do two
things.One,stop us in the tracks,or two,force us to get creative.I did a year of
research,still couldn't figure out what kind of legs to use,couldn't find any resouces
that could help me,so I decided to make a pair myself.My leg maker and I put
random parts together and we made a pair of feet that I could snowboard in.As you
can see,rusted bolts,rubber,wood,and neon pink duct tape.And yes I can change
my toenail polish.It was these legs and the best twenty-first birthday gift I could ever
receive,a new kidney from my dad,that allowed me to follow my dreams again.
- I started snowboarding,then I went back to work,then I went back to school,then
in 2005 I co-founded a nonprofit organization for youth and young adults with
physical disabilities so they could get involved with action sports.From there I had
the opportunity to go to South Africa,where I helped put shoes some thousands of
children's feet so that they can attend school.And just this past February I won two
back-to-back World Cup gold medals.(Applause.) Which made me the highest
ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world.
- Eleven years ago when I lost my legs,I had no idea what to expect.But if you ask
me today if I would ever want to change my situation,I would have to say "No."
Because my legs haven't disabled me,if anything,they've enabled me,they've
forced me to rely on my imagination and to believe in the possibilities.And that's
why I believe that our imaginations can be used as tools for breaking through
borders.Because in our minds we can do anything,and we can be anything.It's
believing in those dreams and facing our fears head-on that allows us to live our
lives beyond our limits.
- And although today is about innovation withOUT borders,I have to say that in my
life,innovation has only been possible BECAUSE of my borders.I've learned that
borders are where the actual ends,but also where the imagination and the story
begin.So the talk that I would like to challenge you with today is that maybe instead
of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something negative or bad,we
can begin to look at them as blessings 鈥 magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite
our imaginations,and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.It's not
about "breaking down borders",it's about "pushing off of them" and seeing what
amazing places they might bring us.Thank you.(Applause)