Distance helps | Roza Tadevosyan | TEDxKids@Yerevan

Roza is talking about distance and that sometimes being far from what you love can help to find yourself.

17 year-old Roza is from the village of Arteni, Aragacton region. Roza loves different kinds of tea. She has 2 big dreams: to visit Brazil and open her own brand shop of chocolate.

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Have you ever asked
yourself: what is distance?

In physics, it's the space
between two points.

Have you ever wondered

how can distance help a person
find his own peace?

I think at some point,

everyone wants to be
away from everybody,

be alone, and just think.

For some people, distance means
getting out of their comfort zone.

For others, it's an adventure,

for others it’s chance
to find their personality.

Distance makes us realize
all those details.

I think at some point
everybody needs distance

to find his-her peaceful world.

Not many people may know,

that according to Steve Jobs's
biography book,

he was interested in Buddhism
and when he was working at Atari,

he wanted to travel to India
to explore Buddhism deeper.

Arriving in India, Steve Jobs
got to meet the guru

who had been reincarnated
and taught him all about Buddhism

So, he decided to explore it himself.

He went up to Indian mountains
and after exploring, came back.

Right after returning, he founded Apple.

It sounds strange nowadays
that an IT genius set up Apple

after staying in Indian mountains.

I think most of us like
sea paintings by Ayvazovsky,

but not everybody knows

that he painted the four
most important paintings of his life,

when he was alone
in the Crimea peninsula,

when there were only him and the sea.

Distance plays a very important
role in our life.

It helps to appreciate the people,
who were near to us.

American writer,
Aleksandar Hemon, once said:

"It seemed that we
loved each other better,

when there were large swathes
of oceans between us.

The daily work of love was often
hard to perform at home."

I can guess some of you
think I’m very cruel person

and that I don’t care
about missing each other.

But believe me, I am more human.

American “Good Night Lamp”
company made special lamps,

that people take
with them when they travel,

or just will be far
from relatives or friends.

So the light turns on, when one
goes to work, comes back,

eats, yawns, goes to bed, etc.

It’s interesting, isn’t it?

This is how “Good Night Lamp”
decided to cut the distance.

After all, let’s love each other,
both near and far.

Distance shouldn’t be
an obstacle for love.

At the end let me quote
Nobel prize winner Albert Camus:

"Distance is a great science,

that helps us to redefine
us and the world."

Thank you!

(Applause)