1、海量资料分享TED 英语演讲稿：给陌生人的情书i was one of the only kids in college who had a reason to go to the p.o. box at the end of the day, and that was mainly because my mother has never believed in email, in facebook, in texting or cell phones in general. and so while other kids were bbm-ing their parents, i was l
2、iterally waiting by the mailbox to get a letter from home to see how the weekend had gone, which was a little frustrating when grandma was in the hospital, but i was just looking for some sort of scribble, some unkempt cursive from my mother.and so when i moved to new york city after college and got
3、 completely sucker-punched in the face by depression, i did the only thing i could think of at the time. i wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written me for strangers, and tucked them all throughout the city, dozens and dozens of them. i left them everywhere, in cafes and in librar
4、ies, at the u.n., everywhere. i blogged about those letters and the days when they were necessary, and i posed a kind of crazy promise to the internet: that if you asked me for a hand-written letter, i would write you one, no questions asked. overnight, my inbox morphed into this harbor of heartbrea
5、k - a single mother in sacramento, a girl being bullied in rural kansas, all asking me, a 22-year-old girl who barely even knew her own coffee order, to write them a love letter and give them a reason to wait by the mailbox.well, today i fuel a global organization that is fueled by those trips to th
6、e mailbox, fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media like never before to write and mail strangers letters when they need them most, but most of all, fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate, filled with the scriptings of 海量资料分享ordinary people, strangers writing let
7、ters to other strangers not because theyre ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee, but because they have found one another by way of letter-writing.but, you know, the thing that always gets me about these letters is that most of them have been written by people that have never known thems
8、elves loved on a piece of paper. they could not tell you about the ink of their own love letters. theyre the ones from my generation, the ones of us that have grown up into a world where everything is paperless, and where some of our best conversations have happened upon a screen. we have learned to
9、 diary our pain onto facebook, and we speak swiftly in 140 characters or less.but what if its not about efficiency this time? i was on the subway yesterday with this mail crate, which is a conversation starter, let me tell you. if you ever need one, just carry one of these. (laughter) and a man just
10、 stared at me, and he was like, “well, why dont you use the internet?“ and i thought, “well, sir, i am not a strategist, nor am i specialist. i am merely a storyteller.“ and so i could tell you about a woman whose husband has just come home from afghanistan, and she is having a hard time unearthing
11、this thing called conversation, and so she tucks love letters throughout the house as a way to say, “come back to me. find me when you can.“ or a girl who decides that she is going to leave love letters around her campus in dubuque, iowa, only to find her efforts ripple-effected the next day when sh
12、e walks out onto the quad and finds love letters hanging from the trees, tucked in the bushes and the benches. or the man who decides that he is going to take his life, uses facebook as a way to say goodbye to friends and family. well, tonight he sleeps safely with a stack of letters just like this
13、one tucked beneath his pillow, scripted by strangers who were there for him when.海量资料分享these are the kinds of stories that convinced me that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair and talk about efficiency, because she is an art form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the sc
14、ripting, the mailing, the doodles in the margins. the mere fact that somebody would even just sit down, pull out a piece of paper and think about someone the whole way through, with an intention that is so much harder to unearth when the browser is up and the iphone is pinging and weve got six conve
15、rsations rolling in at once, that is an art form that does not fall down to the goliath of “get faster,“ no matter how many social networks we might join. we still clutch close these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things th
16、at we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long. thank you. (applause) (applause)TED 英语演讲稿：What fear can teach us 恐惧可以教会我们什么TED 英语演讲稿：越有钱越无情？TED 英语演讲稿：无所畏惧 学无止境Ted 英语演讲稿：On what we think we know？我们以为自己知道的TED 英语演讲稿：内向性格的力量TED 英语演讲稿：改善工作的快乐之道TED 英语演讲稿：你能控制他人的注意力吗？TED 英语演讲稿：如何逃出教育的“死亡谷”TED 英语演讲稿：如何让选择更容易TED 英语演讲稿：科技如何帮我阅读
