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Lakshmi Pratury: The lost art of letter-writing
Lakshmi Pratury o písaní listov
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Lakshmi Pratury pripomína zabudnuté umenie písania listov a delí sa o poznámky, ktoré jej napísal otec pred smrťou. Krátke no úprimné rozprávanie vás možno tiež inšpiruje k písaniu na papier.
Lakshmi Pratury - Connector
Lakshmi Pratury is the host of The INK Conference and was the co-host of TEDIndia 2009. Full bio
Lakshmi Pratury is the host of The INK Conference and was the co-host of TEDIndia 2009. Full bio
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So I thought, "I will talk about death."
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Tak som si zmyslela, „budem hovoriť o smrti."
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Seemed to be the passion today.
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Vyzerá, že je to dnešná vášeň.
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Actually, it's not about death.
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Vlastne to nie je o smrti.
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It's inevitable, terrible, but really what I want to talk about is,
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Je nevyhnuteľná, hrozná, ale to o čom chcem dnes skutočne hovoriť je,
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I'm just fascinated by the legacy people leave when they die.
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že som fascinovaná odkazom ľudí, ktorý po smrti zanechajú.
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That's what I want to talk about.
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To je to, o čom chcem hovoriť.
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So Art Buchwald left his legacy of humor with a video
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Art Buchwald zanechal svoj vtipný odkaz pomocou videa,
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that appeared soon after he died, saying,
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ktoré sa objavilo krátko po tom, čo zomrel.
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"Hi! I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died."
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„Ahoj! Som Art Buchwald a práve som zomrel."
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And Mike, who I met at Galapagos, a trip which I won at TED,
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A Mike, ktorého som stretla na Galapágoch na výlete, ktorý som vyhrala na TEDe,
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is leaving notes on cyberspace where he is chronicling
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necháva poznámky v kyberpriestore, kde zaznamenáva
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his journey through cancer.
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svoju cestu rakovinou.
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And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting
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A môj otec mi zanechal odkaz v podobe rukupisu
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through letters and a notebook.
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v listoch a poznámkovom bloku.
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In the last two years of his life, when he was sick,
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V posledných dvoch rokoch jeho života, keď bol chorý,
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he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me.
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zaplnil svoj poznámkový blok myšlienkami o mne.
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He wrote about my strengths, weaknesses,
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Písal o mojich silných stránkach, slabostiach,
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and gentle suggestions for improvement,
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a jemných doporučeniach na zlepšovanie,
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quoting specific incidents, and held a mirror to my life.
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citujúc špecifické situácie, nastavil zrkadlo môjmo životu.
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After he died, I realized that no one writes to me anymore.
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Po tom čo zomrel, som zistila, že nikto ďalší mi už nepíše.
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Handwriting is a disappearing art.
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Rukupis je miznúcim umením.
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I'm all for email and thinking while typing,
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Mám rada emaily a myslenie behom vyťukávania,
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but why give up old habits for new?
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ale prečo sa kvôli novým zvykom vzdávať tých starých?
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Why can't we have letter writing and email exchange in our lives?
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Prečo nemôžeme mať vo svojich životoch oboje -- písanie listov aj emailov?
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There are times when I want to trade all those years
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Sú dni, kedy by som všetky tie roky
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that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him,
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prílišnej zaneprázdnenosti, keď som nemala čas sadnúť a pozhovárať sa s otcom,
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and trade all those years for one hug.
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vymenila za jediné objatie.
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But too late.
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Ale je príliš neskoro.
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But that's when I take out his letters and I read them,
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No to je chvíľa, keď si vezmem všetky jeho listy a čítam si ich,
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and the paper that touched his hand is in mine,
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a papier, ktorého sa dotýkali jeho ruky je v tých mojich
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and I feel connected to him.
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a cítim medzi nami spojenie.
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So maybe we all need to leave our children
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Možno všetci potrebujeme nechať svojím deťom
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with a value legacy, and not a financial one.
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hodnotný odkaz a nie finančné bohatstvo.
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A value for things with a personal touch --
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Veci s hodnotou s osobným dotykom -
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an autograph book, a soul-searching letter.
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pamätnú knihu; list, v ktorom hľadáme dušu.
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If a fraction of this powerful TED audience
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Keby bol hoci len zlomok tohto TED obecenstva
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could be inspired to buy a beautiful paper --
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inšpirovaný k tomu, aby si kúpili krásny papier --
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John, it'll be a recycled one -- and write a beautiful letter
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John, bude to recyklovaný papier -- a napísal krásny list
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to someone they love, we actually may start a revolution
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niekomu, koho miluje, začali by sme možno revolúciu,
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where our children may go to penmanship classes.
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kedy by naše deti možno chodili na hodiny krasopisu.
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So what do I plan to leave for my son?
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Takže čo plánujem zanechať svojmu synovi?
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I collect autograph books, and those of you authors
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Zbieram pamätné knihy a tí z vás v publiku,
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in the audience know I hound you for them --
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ktorí ste autormi, viete, že vás kvôli nim prenasledujem --
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and CDs too, Tracy.
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a tiež CDčka, Tracy.
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I plan to publish my own notebook.
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Plánujem publikovať môj vlastný zápisník.
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As I witnessed my father's body being swallowed by fire,
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Keď som bola svedkom toho, ako telo môjho otca pohltil oheň,
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I sat by his funeral pyre and wrote.
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sadla som si vedľa jeho pohrebnej hranici a písala.
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I have no idea how I'm going to do it,
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Nemám ani tušenie, ako to urobím,
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but I am committed to compiling his thoughts and mine
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ale som zaviazaná zostavením jeho a mojich myšlienok
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into a book, and leave that published book for my son.
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do knihy, ktorú publikujem a zanechám svojmu synovi.
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I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote
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Rada by som ukončila niekoľkými veršami, ktoré som napísala
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at my father's cremation.
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na kremácii môjho otca.
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And those linguists, please pardon the grammar,
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A všetci lingvisti ma, prosím, ospravedlňte,
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because I've not looked at it in the last 10 years.
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pretože som sa na ne posledných 10 rokov nepozrela.
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I took it out for the first time to come here.
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Vytiahla som ich po prvýkrát, aby som ich tu prečítala.
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"Picture in a frame, ashes in a bottle,
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„Obrázok v rámčeku, vo fľaši popol,
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boundless energy confined in the bottle,
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v nej energia bez hraníc väzí,
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forcing me to deal with reality,
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núti ma vyrovnať sa s realitou,
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forcing me to deal with being grown up.
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núti ma prijať dospelosť.
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I hear you and I know that you would want me to be strong,
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Počujem ťa a viem, že chcel by si, nech som silná,
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but right now, I am being sucked down, surrounded
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teraz však unášajú, obklopujú,
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and suffocated by these raging emotional waters,
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a zadúšajú ma búrlivé prúdy citov
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craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge
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bažiace po očiste mojej duše, pokúšam sa vynoriť
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on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing
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pevnými nohami ešte raz, nech ďalej bojujem a kvitnem
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just as you taught me.
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tak ako si ma učil.
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Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair,
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Tvoj povzbudzujúci šepot v krútňave môjho zúfalstva
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holding me and heaving me to shores of sanity,
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ma drží a unáša k brehom príčetnosti,
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to live again and to love again."
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nech opäť žijem a milujem."
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Thank you.
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Ďakujem.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lakshmi Pratury - ConnectorLakshmi Pratury is the host of The INK Conference and was the co-host of TEDIndia 2009.
Why you should listen
After two decades in marketing, venture capitalism and social entreprenuership, Lakshmi Pratury turned her focus toward linking her home country of India more tightly with the American community. Her firm, Ixoraa Media, runs meetings and events to spark dialogue and make connections. In 2009, she co-hosted TEDIndia and saw such a warm response to the conference that she founded The INK Conference, in partnership with TED, that would pick up where TEDIndia left off. Watch the INKTalks channel to see some of the brilliant ideas shared at the INK Conference. Pratury blogs at Lakshmi's Lounge.
She worked at Intel for 12 years as a marketer and evangelist, then moved to a VC firm, Global Capitalist Partners. At GCP, she focused on connecting India's legendary software-development community with US tech. She began to focus more strictly on relationship-building with her move to the America India Foundation, where she founded the AIF's Digital Equalizer program, offering technology education to some 80,000 children and 2,000 teachers in India. She also launched the AIF Summit for social entrepreneurs from India.
Lakshmi Pratury | Speaker | TED.com