Name: 【TED】Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome (Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome)
Uploaded: 2017-08-20T15:09:03.000Z
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My dad left a small village outside of Amritsar, India.

They settled in a shady suburb about an hour east of Toronto,

a lot of the things that my parents couldn't take for granted

and I realize it sounds like a bad sitcom or a Cat Stevens' song --

Under clear blue skies in July in the wine region of Ontario,

and I went on a road trip with two of my closest friends.

Here's a picture of me and my friend, Chris,

We actually saw seals out of our car window,

and we pulled over to take a quick picture of them

and then blocked them with our giant heads.

I know that they were tougher for a lot of people,

It's still heavy now, and it was heavy before that,

but when you flipped open a newspaper, when you turned on the TV,

and an economy that was wobbling on the brink of collapse,

2008, 2009 were heavy years for me for another reason, too.

I was going through a lot of personal problems at the time.

and we just were growing further and further apart.

and summoned the courage, through a lot of tears,

And she said, "I don't love you anymore,"

and it was one of the most painful things I'd ever heard

and certainly the most heartbreaking thing I'd ever heard,

when I heard something even more heartbreaking.

My friend Chris, who I just showed you a picture of,

had been battling mental illness for some time.

whose lives have been touched by mental illness,

I spoke to him on the phone at 10:30 p.m.

We talked about the TV show we watched that evening.

And Monday morning, I found out that he disappeared.

And as these dark clouds were circling me,

and I was finding it really, really difficult

I said to myself that I really needed a way

of the simple, universal, little pleasures that we all love,

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【TED】Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome (Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome)

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