David Whyte : A lyrical bridge between past, present and future

TED 2017

David Whyte : A lyrical bridge between past, present and future (transcript)

Summary

Those were difficult poems for me.

However, you can think that if you work hard and play hard, even if you are in a siever situation but you didn't look back.

You are not jealous of others lives and you love your life more than a beautiful successful life in the TV drama because TV's is imagination and it's not true.

In this poem, we seem to look always the conversational nature of reality. It means that the fact which you want to happen will not happen.

What actually happens is this frontier between what you think is you, and what you think is not you. This is the only place that is the frontier where things are real.

However, I don't think so, because If l can continue to stay there, what l want to happen will happen.

However, we have full disappearance called death.

And then the poem has a contradiction.

“One day, you realized that what you wanted actually already happened”.

So they are always in conflict in our journey, we don't realize many things that are good and bad but they will be shot, but we are alive. Our journey is created our past, present, and future is continuing. This is one identity.

We only have to work hard and play hard, even if what we want to doesn't happen.

Words in this story

lyrical / (of literature, art, or music) expressing the writer's emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way.

threshold /  doorstep, doorway, a certain reaction, magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for.

phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested.

frontier / a line or border separating two countries.