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Faire de sa vie la plus belle de ses histoires | Axel Waeckerlé | TEDxEMLYON


[Music]

[Applause]

Hello everyone, it’s a huge pleasure

to be here with you today

a lot of emotion too and for

finish this beautiful day all

particular my name is high axis because

I will tell you today

one of my most beautiful adventures

I often say that until the age of 16

years I let myself live I was this

young boy with short-haired blond hair

astigmatic and farsighted but all of

even very spoiled I go to high school in lyon

in the mountains of gold surrounded by a

exceptional family and friends

incredible some of which are still

today as brothers and sisters to

school I was not at work anymore

even among the last classified at the

hat to zero at each dictation it’s not

funny

in college I go from 6th to 5th

with 9 5 average

same pattern from the 5th to the 4th and I

necessarily redoubles my fourth with 9 9

on average

a dirty deal that’s not it’s not

funny when comes summer 2007 just

before entering high school every year

and since my youngest age I had the

chance to travel to the four corners of

world of Africa to Asia by the way

by the most beautiful cities on the planet

that year we are everywhere between

united states and canada until the

border with alaska in the big

North West

a sublime journey but it’s during this

same journey that starts at the most

challenging of my experiences but also

the most rewarding of mishaps

the one that yet today I do not

wish nobody

it is there that I feel that his

first head words and that’s what

moment that I started to

feel alive to take the time and the

consciousness does not die feel vibrate at

deeper of me when this simple

pain quickly turn into a

real suffering

this feeling that takes over

everything that becomes ubiquitous by day

like at night

I went on board for this perilous

adventure of about 3 years whose only

goal was to stay alive about

three months after his first words of

head felt in canada we discovered that

I had a brain tumor

that day I was going to live the moment the

more atrocious of the next three years

the look of my mom during the announcement

filled with this fear of seeing his son

to die in this little room where I

get dressed and after spending my morning

about five square meters of stool

a coat rack and a poster explaining

what was an irm

the radiologist enters his little pen

in the pocket and speaks to my mom

your son has a tumor

brain at that moment everything stopped

there remained only suffering and

fear every day I was leaving a little

the more I felt myself getting away with each

eyelids blink I soon

left school to discover a whole

other world

the hospital world the addiction

total to eat to breathe for

to do my needs or simply to watch

on my heart the fear of falling asleep the

evening or not to wake up the

next day when we have to fight

in his room moans

other passers-by that resonates in the

corridor the power of a smile too

is the story of a look at the suffering

daily and this fight each

moment I grew up trial in

test

operated on a heart lung and twice

brain or the atmosphere

appalling intensive care

one day we had to go and get this

mood in the middle of my brain

something that we’ve been trying to avoid since

more than a year

because this operation is crazy but

I will die and it was the last chance

to get out

that’s how October 13, 2009 I

gone at dawn they were barely 5

morning hours towards the block

operative

the day before my surgeon was

spent in my room late at night

I was connected everywhere and standing

in front of my bed an explained that in

two days we would come and get me very

early to take me to the block and that

and especially that I had to know that I

will surely come back different from this

operation there that time there at all

just 17 years old I just have him

asked if he had time to do

the motorbike

his passion while they were there day

and night

after 9 hours of operation where my

surgeon try to fetch this

thing in the middle of the two hemispheres of

my brain I was going to live the awakening of

my life this new start also scary

that liberator

this new expedition for me

rebuild and sorts though today

with you and in great shape

I was out of business but different

in the recovery room

the still troubled vision it was a

new feeling of me I do not

were suffering more but feel this

big scar behind my skull that

breathed I discovered the world in

seeing double the chin stick to the

chest

I did not know how to stand up and

I had lost my short-term memory

I was back to life but before

a new huge mountain I

so started in my room

hospital this new journey that of the

reconstruction

shared between the pleasure of contemplating

every morning the rising sun

and tell me that I might have

better to stay there than it was

madness

because I did not know where I was going

I was going to find this memory if

I was going to be able to walk again

tennis player one day drive or

just serve me a glass of water I

gradually regained pleasure

in my room to receive the visit

of friends and my family every day a

doctor get up to make me do a

go back from the big hall in

walking to find the balanced and

put my feet in front of one another

that same doctor was also telling me and the

little asian nurse the super

cute no but every thing in his

time

every night a black skin nurse

is rather round came in my room

to massage me we heard him arrive

even before having it thanks to the

cream she put in her hand in

Arriving at their tour so as

a crepe to massage me violently

for ten seconds before me

look satisfied with the hands posed

on the hips his part of a

so good intentions but

I dread and each of his visits

for the biggest laugh of my family and

of my friends

every night also a little later this

famous Asian nurses were coming

sit at the end of my bed to

sometimes discuss for an hour before

to go home

while she had a net over it

her white coat her black jacket

and it’s yesterday max black moments

full of huy but a specific day has everything

changed my whole life

when a few weeks later I

got out of the tonkin hospital on a

wheelchair pushed by my mom to

ground floor of the building

the doors are open we advanced

and I felt on my cheeks I

felt on my cheeks the wind settle

I had forgotten this sensation

priceless happiness and yet so

simple

I was crying with emotion the way is

still long but I felt on my

cheeks that thrill to feel and live

that’s the message I’d like you to

offer today that every one of

you take the time out of here

to feel alive today all

these memories all his pictures his

sensations his fears are also part

of my everyday life that’s why I had to

turn all those black things

to make it a real strength for me

as for the world around me I

am notably spent writing

putting everything in black and white was

a real therapy I also did the

encounter an amazing one

hypnosis specialist who made me no

only miraculously found the

memory and that helps me take a step back

with all this lived he called it the

let go

by working on my subconscious and

it is the unconscious represents some

amazing thing I still know that

for a few years I should do

faced with a high risk of relapse but

I am convinced and repeat it to me every

day that I will not go back it’s

thanks to this daily work at this

listen and those felt about me that I

managed today to be aligned I know

what I need to be happy

what I have to offer the world is what

I want to do with my life

worked this year for the company

tic is strong at ge whose mission

is to fight against the mess of

talents by allowing everyone to

to get involved in building a world

better

this thanks to its process

educational three-step inspiration

introspection and taking action

this second stage of introspection

allow everyone to work on

so to listen and includes

no because there is no need to pass

by disease or any other test

to take this new start we

are all rich of a journey of a

talent sensitivity and dream all

these things allowing us to each

of us describe the most beautiful of

our stories

so to answer this beautiful

question that will have accompanied us this

afternoons ah yes grid is that

we have arrived

I dare to hope not because life is at

both so beautiful and terribly

fragile so let’s not lose a second

to feel it in the depths of

we and to share to the world who we

surrounds what is best in

we because the most beautiful remains to come

thank you all

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