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Correndo pela vida | Renato Cruz | TEDxRioVermelho


good afternoon, how are you?

It is

It’s really nice to be here.

an important moment for all of us

speakers and I hope that we have

a good connection

on this day to tell my story is

very important tells the story of this

person

his name is paulo rosa da cruz sofala

a pernambuco from the city of gimje worse

It’s important for us to do this.

connection so paulo he left pernambuco

of the city of tizi was worse for and was

to são paulo

in são paulo he has set up a family of mine

Father, this man had a

very strong characteristic that was the

lack of love and affection and the issues of

relationship between the two children

among their children

we had great problems in this relationship

because my father when he had a great

personal problem he chose alcohol

on your escape

As a result of their decisions, the

Your most normal child in the

old man he chose drugs and today he

did not live among agents is the

family

I had to get all this for the

my life

from the beginning you chose to study here

was the way and looking at that

situation of that family

the study and soon it gave me

working in one of the largest companies

from Sao Paulo

it made me flower accident

I also dream to be a father and also to build

a family and my family based

in love in communion something this does not

was very frequent in our environment

only on the common day of work where

we all know about our house to

work something very bad very bad

happened to me an accident where

similar to that one piece fell

of 400 pounds of fear of nothing similar

to that

What would be the victim’s path?

protagonist of all this

I confess to you that before this

adversity that I was experiencing, I

make some choice as always in the

our life we have to make choices not

we can let go of life in the hand

Third, we take care of our

own life and I confess to you that it is

inside my head before this

universe and spread the emotion that was

living the image I had of when

came to my diagnosis that I

would have to amputate my leg was

precisely from the victim but caused by

a co-worker I had a great deal of

challenge and began to see the world of

of people with disabilities with a

different that feeling

vulnerability that we look at

This person has been deconstructing

from me and I started

I had my first contact with the sport

what would be impossible for

happen in my life that would be

practically never existed that I was a

sedentary face i make my first

try my first street race I

I see some truths taking possession of

my life and I also see that I could

go much further than a simple

citizen need with their

special needs

sport comes into my life in

an incredible and surreal way

things have been taking a proportion

so I would have imagined

I confess to you that for dozens of

times I exposed my body to exercise

and confessed that the news I saw

in our mind that often takes

Our heart told us to give up

but to learn to be resilient in

moments of extreme extreme

this may change the direction of the

its history and my disability that

changed the course of my story and all

to my family and mean something very

bad happened to me was

potentiate what was already

hidden from me that it lacked a

simple push the sport came to

transform transform my life

to transform my family’s life and

dream and dreams were feeding on

every moment

deficiency when well developed

becomes a productive tool

in the hand of the individual and the dream became

with

the dream became a possibility

in 2015 as they prepared to be able to

if I’m already part of a great team

when our trainer

He sat with us, the lady you have.

5% chance to go to the Paralympics

what do you think

dear, I will say that you were the

sufficient word was enough to

I needed to hear possibilities from

that all my effort gives up the

I gave my body and soul

for this network lends small

possibility of something happening

amazing in my life in front of

great honor to represent our

nation and the 2016 Paralympic Games

total happiness the guy coming out of a

traumatic environmental accident

extremely hostile and uncertain

that may happen is representing

brazil in the paralympic games the part

highest of any top athlete

Yield

I confess to you that emotion is

uncontrollable

the sensation of the body is something incredible

have before me my relatives who

cried I fight that live my pain

who will live the worst part of my life

I was living this and the happiness of

power to part with

4 by the coin relay 100 in

games of the river 2016 play the olympic without

doubt is the desire of every

individual who works be it a

management becomes a great swell

a person who does medicine if

make a great doctor the dream to touch

Olympus and I played at the Olympic with

silver medal

but in my process of

something unforgettable happened

with me on the return of Olympus

when I come back to my home with

glory year achievement accomplished something there

much stronger and discover within

me

visiting my past because it exists

any york a silver medal

there is something stronger than conquering

in the Olympic is the way you do

for this achievement

the honest clean way the way you

do you meet people like daniel

my coach school that was one that

believed in me marco aurelio a great

brother who is here who proves me

the world but above all finds a

man named paulo rosa da cruz

My father from Tchinjenje

worse that he had his amputations when

it rains when you leave your city

I always told my father’s story.

very sadly with much bitterness

but this process of empathy of

put yourself in the other person has

transformed my life and why

another transformation process it is

a choice

when we put ourselves in the position of the

another, we begin to understand why the

another acted that way and today I tell

with pride I am the son of a

courageous Pernambucano who had his

amputations when young was brave as

went to são paulo to try life if

frustrated

we can not erase the history of this

great warrior I am very proud of

to say that I am a son of paulo rosa da

cruz and maria helena nunes da cruz

I had my brothers and today 1 no longer

live among us I am renato medalist

of the Paralympic Games and

I share with you the taste of

resilience

thank you so much

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

thank you very much

[Applause]

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