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Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers
Hannah Brencher: Ljubavna pisma strancima
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Majka Hanne Brencher uvijek joj je pisala pisma. Tako je, kada se osjećala na dnu zbog depresije nakon fakulteta, učinila ono što joj je bilo prirodno -- pisala je ljubavna pisma i ostavljala ih je strancima da ih pronađu. Čin je postao globalna inicijativa, The World Needs More Love Letters, koja prosljeđuje rukom pisana pisma onima koji trebaju poticaj.
Hannah Brencher - Letter enthusiast
Hannah Brencher believes in the power of pen and paper, and has started a global initiative that encourages strangers to exchange love letters. Full bio
Hannah Brencher believes in the power of pen and paper, and has started a global initiative that encourages strangers to exchange love letters. Full bio
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I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason
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Bila sam jedna od
onih studenata koji su imali razlog
onih studenata koji su imali razlog
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to go to the P.O. box at the end of the day,
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da na kraju dana
odu do poštanskog pretinca,
odu do poštanskog pretinca,
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and that was mainly because my mother has never believed
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a to je bilo uglavnom zato što
moja majka nikad nije vjerovala
moja majka nikad nije vjerovala
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in email, in Facebook, in texting or cell phones in general.
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u e-mail, Facebook,
SMS poruke ili mobitele uopće.
SMS poruke ili mobitele uopće.
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And so while other kids were BBM-ing their parents,
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Dok su se drugi svojima
javljali preko BlackBerryja,
javljali preko BlackBerryja,
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I was literally waiting by the mailbox
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ja sam doslovno kraj sandučića čekala
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to get a letter from home to see how the weekend had gone,
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pismo od kuće da čujem
kako je prošao vikend,
kako je prošao vikend,
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which was a little frustrating when Grandma was in the hospital,
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što je bilo malo frustrirajuće
dok je baka bila u bolnici,
dok je baka bila u bolnici,
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but I was just looking for some sort of scribble,
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ali tražila sam bilo kakvu črčkariju,
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some unkempt cursive from my mother.
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neki neodržavani kurziv od moje majke.
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And so when I moved to New York City after college
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I tako kad sam se preselila
u New York nakon faksa
u New York nakon faksa
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and got completely sucker-punched in the face by depression,
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iznenadila me depresija,
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I did the only thing I could think of at the time.
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i učinila sam jedinu stvar
koja mi je tada pala na pamet.
koja mi je tada pala na pamet.
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I wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written me
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Pisala sam ista pisma koja
je meni pisala majka
je meni pisala majka
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for strangers, and tucked them all throughout the city,
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za strance, i ostavljala sam ih posvuda u gradu,
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dozens and dozens of them. I left them everywhere,
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desetke i desetke njih,
ostavljala sam ih svugdje,
ostavljala sam ih svugdje,
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in cafes and in libraries, at the U.N., everywhere.
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u kafićima i knjižnicama,
u U.N.-u, posvuda.
u U.N.-u, posvuda.
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I blogged about those letters and the days
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Pisala sam na blogu o tim pismima i danima
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when they were necessary, and I posed
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kada su oni bili potrebni, i dala sam
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a kind of crazy promise to the Internet:
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pomalo ludo obećanje internetu:
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that if you asked me for a hand-written letter,
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ako me zatražite rukom ispisano pismo,
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I would write you one, no questions asked.
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napisat ću ga, bez pogovora.
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Overnight, my inbox morphed into this harbor of heartbreak --
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Preko noći moj sandučić
postao je utočište slomljenih srca --
postao je utočište slomljenih srca --
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a single mother in Sacramento, a girl being bullied
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samohrana majka iz Sacramenta,
djevojčica koju su zlostavljali
djevojčica koju su zlostavljali
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in rural Kansas, all asking me, a 22-year-old girl
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u ruralnom Kansasu, svi su me tražili,
22-godišnja djevojka
22-godišnja djevojka
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who barely even knew her own coffee order,
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koja je jedva znala naručiti kavu,
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to write them a love letter and give them a reason
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da im napišem ljubavno pismo i dam razlog
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to wait by the mailbox.
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da čekaju kraj sandučića.
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Well, today I fuel a global organization
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Pa, danas pokrećem globalnu organizaciju
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that is fueled by those trips to the mailbox,
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koja se pokreće tim posjetima sandučiću,
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fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media
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koji se pokreću načinima na koje
možemo iskoristiti društvene medije
možemo iskoristiti društvene medije
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like never before to write and mail strangers letters
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kao nikad prije da pišemo i šaljemo pisma strancima
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when they need them most, but most of all,
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kada ih najviše trebaju, no najvažnije,
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fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate,
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pokretan od sanduka pošte kao što je ovaj,
moj vjerni sanduk za poštu,
moj vjerni sanduk za poštu,
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filled with the scriptings of ordinary people,
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ispunjen pisanjima običnih ljudi,
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strangers writing letters to other strangers not because
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stranaca koji su spremni pisati drugim
strancima, ne zato što
strancima, ne zato što
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they're ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee,
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će ih ikad upoznati i smijati se preko
šalice kave,
šalice kave,
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but because they have found one another by way of letter-writing.
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već zato što su pronašli jedno drugo putem
pisanja pisama.
pisanja pisama.
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But, you know, the thing that always gets me
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Ali znate, stvar koja me uvijek iznenadi
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about these letters is that most of them have been written
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kod tih pisama je da ih je većina pisana
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by people that have never known themselves loved on a piece of paper.
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od ljudi koji nikad nisu bili voljeni na
komadu papira.
komadu papira.
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They could not tell you about the ink of their own love letters.
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Nisu vam mogli pričali o tinti
vlastitih ljubavnih pisama.
vlastitih ljubavnih pisama.
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They're the ones from my generation,
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Oni su dio moje generacije,
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the ones of us that have grown up into a world
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oni koji su odrasli u svijetu
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where everything is paperless, and where some
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gdje je sve bez papira, i gdje neki
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of our best conversations have happened upon a screen.
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od naših najboljih razgovora se
događaju na ekranu.
događaju na ekranu.
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We have learned to diary our pain onto Facebook,
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Naučili smo našu bol bilježiti na Facebooku,
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and we speak swiftly in 140 characters or less.
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i pričamo vješto u 140 znakova ili manje.
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But what if it's not about efficiency this time?
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Ali što ako se ne radi o učinkovitosi
ovoga puta?
ovoga puta?
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I was on the subway yesterday with this mail crate,
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Bila sam u podzemnoj jučer
sa ovim sandukom pošte,
sa ovim sandukom pošte,
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which is a conversation starter, let me tell you.
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koji je dobar početak razgovora,
vjerujte mi kad vam kažem.
vjerujte mi kad vam kažem.
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If you ever need one, just carry one of these. (Laughter)
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Ako vam ikad treba tema,
samo nosite ovo. (Smijeh)
samo nosite ovo. (Smijeh)
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And a man just stared at me, and he was like,
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I čovjek je samo buljio u mene, i pitao je,
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"Well, why don't you use the Internet?"
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"Pa, zašto ne koristiš Internet?"
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And I thought, "Well, sir, I am not a strategist,
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I pomislila sam, "Pa gospodine, nisam strategist,
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nor am I specialist. I am merely a storyteller."
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niti sam specijalist, ja sam
samo ona koja priča priče."
samo ona koja priča priče."
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And so I could tell you about a woman
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I tako vam mogu pričati o ženi
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whose husband has just come home from Afghanistan,
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čiji je muž došao iz Afganistana,
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and she is having a hard time unearthing this thing called conversation,
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i ima problema sa otkrivanjem te stvari
koju zovemo razgovorom,
koju zovemo razgovorom,
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and so she tucks love letters throughout the house
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i tako skriva ljubavna pisma po kući
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as a way to say, "Come back to me.
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kako bi mu rekla, "Vrati mi se.
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Find me when you can."
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Pronađi me ako možeš."
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Or a girl who decides that she is going to leave love letters
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Ili djevojka koja odluči da će ostavljati ljubavna pisma
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around her campus in Dubuque, Iowa, only to find
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na svom faksu u Dubuque, Iowi,
kako bi utvrdila
kako bi utvrdila
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her efforts ripple-effected the next day when she walks out
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da je njen trud izazvao lančanu reakciju
kada je izašla
kada je izašla
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onto the quad and finds love letters hanging
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na trg i pronašla ljubavna pisma kako vise
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from the trees, tucked in the bushes and the benches.
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sa drveća, skrivena u grmlju i kod klupa.
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Or the man who decides that he is going to take his life,
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Ili čovjek koji odluči da će si oduzeti život,
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uses Facebook as a way to say goodbye
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koristi Facebook kako bi rekao zbogom
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to friends and family.
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prijateljima i obitelji.
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Well, tonight he sleeps safely with a stack of letters
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Pa, večeras spava sigurno sa hrpom pisama
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just like this one tucked beneath his pillow,
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poput ovih spremljenih pod jastukom,
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scripted by strangers who were there for him when.
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ispisanih od stranaca koji su bili tu za njega.
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These are the kinds of stories that convinced me
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To su priče koje su me uvjerile
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that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair
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da pisanje pisama nikada neće morati zabaciti kosu
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and talk about efficiency, because she is an art form now,
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i pričati o učinkovitosti,
jer ona je sada oblik umjetnosti,
jer ona je sada oblik umjetnosti,
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all the parts of her, the signing, the scripting, the mailing,
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svi njeni dijelovi, potpisivanje,
pisanje, slanje,
pisanje, slanje,
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the doodles in the margins.
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črčkarije na marginama.
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The mere fact that somebody would even just sit down,
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Sama činjenica da bi itko samo sjeo,
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pull out a piece of paper and think about someone
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izvukao komad papira i mislio o nekome
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the whole way through, with an intention that is so much
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cijelo vrijeme sa namjerom koju je tako
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harder to unearth when the browser is up and the iPhone
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teško otkriti kada vam je
browser otvoren i iPhone
browser otvoren i iPhone
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is pinging and we've got six conversations rolling in at once,
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zvoni i imamo šest istovremenih razgovora,
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that is an art form
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to je oblik umjetnosti
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that does not fall down to the Goliath of "get faster,"
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koji ne spada u Golijata brzine,
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no matter how many social networks we might join.
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koliko god se društvenih mreža pridružili.
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We still clutch close these letters to our chest,
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I dalje privijamo ta pisma na grudi,
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to the words that speak louder than loud,
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privijamo riječi koje govore
glasnije od glasnog,
glasnije od glasnog,
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when we turn pages into palettes to say the things
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kada pretvaramo stranice u palete
kako bismo rekli stvari
kako bismo rekli stvari
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that we have needed to say,
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koje smo trebali reći,
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the words that we have needed to write, to sisters
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riječi koje smo morali napisati, sestrama
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and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long.
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i braći, čak i strancima, već jako dugo.
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Thank you. (Applause)
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Hvala vam. (Pljesak)
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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Hannah Brencher - Letter enthusiastHannah Brencher believes in the power of pen and paper, and has started a global initiative that encourages strangers to exchange love letters.
Why you should listen
Hannah Brechner has always loved that her family communicates via handwritten letters. In October of 2010, she began writing love letters intended for strangers and tucking them away in libraries and cafes across New York City, for people to randomly discover. Soon, she offered on her blog HannahBrencher.com to write a letter to anyone who needed one. Over the next year, she mailed out more than 400 hand-penned letters. Today she runs The World Needs More Love Letters, a letter exchange dedicated to connecting strangers across the globe through the art of letter writing.
In addition, Brencher works as a copywriter and creative consultant, helping brands inject human touches into their communications plans.
Hannah Brencher | Speaker | TED.com