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Questo è un video un po' personale. Un video che mi terrorizza mettere in internet e che ho voluto fare per lungo tempo. Ho ricevuto centinaia di messaggi da persone in difficoltà o che chiedevano un consiglio e questo è sicuramente uno dei migliori consigli che posso dare. E lo do anche a me stessa!
Mi dispiace non sia divertente, o buffo o magari intrattenente, ma ho pensato che il messaggio che volevo dare fosse più importante.
Grazie mille a Hayden Hillier-Smith per aver aiutato a filmarlo e avermi fatto usare l'attrezzatura della sua università!
Spero vi piaccia, ci ho messo il cuore.
Song by Zack Hemsey
ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION:
TRANSLATION: I was thinking about it, lately. i was thinking about how much a critic affects us way more than how much a compliment does. Even though a complment is way harder to say. So when someone comes to us and says: "your nose looks wrong" or "your face is so covered in freckles" it will have a stronger impact on us than when someone says: "your hair looks nice today" or "I really like your hands". When we are talking about abilities and skills then it's even worse because when someone tells us the tinyest critic we're going to think bout everything we've done until now and give it all up because of just that tiny little negative spot. So instead of pushing us to do better we'll end up in a spiral of negative thoughts. Why do we let this happen to us? I mean, why don't we accept we have defects since we are humans and it is statistically impossible to be perfect or for everybody to like us? Why do we let people affect us so much? Why can an only critic destroy years of work? I'm not trying to paternise anyone, but I deeply though about this our negativity. And it is OURS because it would be pointless to pretend I am not like this. It's all a matter of thinking, of practicing so I decided to start from the beginning, from zero, and try to think positive, which is quite hard to me. I decided I am going to take the good that comes together with the bad stuff. Because there will be bad stuff. I will write down all the good things that happen to me so that when something not that good happens I can look at them and think that, even though bad stuff happened good stuff happened as well. And I am not saying this because I want to make a cheesy and fake video but because this kind of things hurt me and not just me, and I think I can be the only weapon against myself, or for myself. and I learned this the hard way. After all, my motto has always been "tomorrow's a new day" and it has worked quite good until now. Let's stop being just dependent on other people. We have the power to choose how to look at things so let's try and use this power. It cannot be that bad. I want to do it, I will do it, and we can kind of try and do it together. it's a journey with myself I am willing to take. And you?
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