Caroline Casey: Looking past limits

Prevoditelj: Strumpfovi BJ Recezent: Mislav Ante Omazić - EFZG

Can any of you

Može li se itko od vas

remember what you wanted to be

sjetiti što ste željeli biti

when you were 17?

kada ste imali 17 godina?

Do you know what I wanted to be?

Znate li što sam ja željela biti?

I wanted to be a biker chick.

Željela sam biti "bajkerica".

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

I wanted to race cars,

Željela sam se utrkivati autima,

and I wanted to be a cowgirl,

željela sam biti kaubojka,

and I wanted to be Mowgli from "The Jungle Book."

i željela sam biti Mowgli iz "Knjige o džungli".

Because they were all about being free,

Zbog toga što se sve ovo nazira na tome kako biti slobodan --

the wind in your hair -- just to be free.

s vjetrom u kosi -- jednostavno biti slobodan.

And on my seventeenth birthday,

I na moj 17. rođendan,

my parents, knowing how much I loved speed,

moji roditelji, znajući koliko volim brzinu,

gave me one driving lesson

poklonili su mi jednu lekciju vožnje

for my seventeenth birthday.

za moj 17. rođendan.

Not that we could have afforded I drive,

Ne zbog toga što smo si mogli priuštiti da ja vozim,

but to give me the dream of driving.

već zbog toga da bi mi ostvarili san o vožnji.

And on my seventeenth birthday,

I na moj 17. rođendan,

I accompanied my little sister

pratila sam mlađu sestru

in complete innocence,

u potpunoj nevinosti,

as I always had all my life --

kakvu sam oduvijek imala cijeli život --

my visually impaired sister --

moju slabovidnu sestru --

to go to see an eye specialist.

u posjet očnom specijalistu.

Because big sisters

Zato što bi starije sestre

are always supposed to support their little sisters.

uvijek trebale podržavati svoje mlađe sestre.

And my little sister wanted to be a pilot --

A moja mlađa sestra je željela biti pilot --

God help her.

Bog joj pomogao.

So I used to get my eyes tested

Tko sam i ja testirala vid

just for fun.

samo iz zabave.

And on my seventeenth birthday,

I na moj 17. rođendan,

after my fake eye exam,

nakon mog lažnog očnog pregleda,

the eye specialist just noticed it happened to be my birthday.

očni specijalist je primjetio da je slučajno moj rođendan.

And he said, "So what are you going to do to celebrate?"

I pitao me, "Kako ćeš ga proslaviti?"

And I took that driving lesson,

A ja sam uzela tu lekciju iz vožnje

and I said, "I'm going to learn how to drive."

i rekla, "Naučit ću voziti."

And then there was a silence --

I onda je nastala tišina --

one of those awful silences

jedna od onih groznih tišina

when you know something's wrong.

kada znaš da nešto nije u redu.

And he turned to my mother,

Okrenuo se prema mojoj majci

and he said, "You haven't told her yet?"

i rekao: "Još joj niste rekli?"

On my seventeenth birthday,

Na moj 17. rođendan,

as Janis Ian would best say,

kako bi Janis Ian najbolje rekla,

I learned the truth at 17.

saznala sam istinu sa 17:

I am, and have been since birth,

Ja sam od rođenja

legally blind.

pravno slijepa.

And you know,

Znate li

how on earth did I get to 17

kako sam zaboga došla do 17. godine

and not know that?

ne znajući to?

Well, if anybody says country music isn't powerful,

Ako itko kaže da country glazba nije moćna,

let me tell you this:

reći ću vam ovo:

I got there

Došla sam do tamo

because my father's passion for Johnny Cash

zbog očeve strasti prema Johnny Cashu

and a song, "A Boy Named Sue."

i pjesmi "A Boy Named Sue".

I'm the eldest of three. I was born in 1971.

Ja sam najstarija od troje djece. Rođena sam 1971.

And very shortly after my birth,

I ubrzo nakon mog rođenja,

my parents found out I had a condition called ocular albinism.

moji roditelji su saznali za moje stanje koje se zove očni albinizam.

And what the hell does that mean to you?

A što dovraga to znači za vas?

So let me just tell you, the great part of all of this?

Dakle dopustite mi da vam kažem što je odlična stvar u svemu ovome?

I can't see this clock and I can't see the timing,

Ne mogu vidjeti ovaj sat i ne mogu vidjeti vrijeme,

so holy God, woohoo! (Laughter)

Sveti Bože, vuuhuu!

I might buy some more time.

Mogla bih dobiti malo više vremena.

But more importantly, let me tell you --

Ali još važnije, dozvolite da vam kažem --

I'm going to come up really close here. Don't freak out, Pat.

jako ću vam se približiti. Pat, nemoj se uplašiti.

Hey.

Hej.

See this hand?

Vidite li ovu ruku?

Beyond this hand is a world of Vaseline.

Iza ove ruke je svijet vazelina.

Every man in this room, even you, Steve,

Svaki muškarac u ovoj prostoriji, pa čak i ti Steve,

is George Clooney.

izgleda kao George Clooney.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And every woman, you are so beautiful.

I svaka žena je tako lijepa.

And when I want to look beautiful, I step three feet away from the mirror,

Kada ja želim izgledati lijepo, odmaknem se tri koraka od ogledala,

and I don't have to see these lines etched in my face

i ne moram vidjeti ove bore urezane na mome licu

from all the squinting I've done all my life

od škiljenja cijeloga života

from all the dark lights.

zbog tamnih sjenki.

The really strange part is

Stvarno neobično je to

that, at three and a half, just before I was going to school,

kada sam imala tri i pol godine, upravo prije nego sam trebala krenuti u školu,

my parents made a bizarre, unusual

moji su roditelji donijeli bizarnu, neobičnu

and incredibly brave decision.

i nevjerojatno hrabru odluku.

No special needs schools.

Neće biti škola za posebne potrebe.

No labels.

Neće biti etiketa.

No limitations.

Neće biti ograničenja.

My ability and my potential.

Samo moje sposobnosti i moj potencijal.

And they decided to tell me

Odlučili su mi reći

that I could see.

da ja mogu vidjeti.

So just like Johnny Cash's Sue,

I upravo kao Johnny Cashov Sue,

a boy given a girl's name,

dječak sa ženskim imenom,

I would grow up and learn from experience

ja ću odrastati i učiti iz vlastitog iskustva

how to be tough and how to survive,

kako biti čvrsta i kako preživjeti

when they were no longer there to protect me,

kada oni više ne budu tu da me zaštite

or just take it all away.

ili jednostavno sve uklone.

But more significantly,

No još značajnije,

they gave me the ability

dali su mi sposobnost

to believe,

da vjerujem,

totally, to believe that I could.

da potpuno vjerujem da mogu.

And so when I heard that eye specialist

I kada sam čula tog očnog specijalista

tell me all the things, a big fat "no,"

kako svim tim stvarima govori veliko debelo "ne",

everybody imagines I was devastated.

svi pretpostavljaju kako sam bila uništena.

And don't get me wrong, because when I first heard it --

Nemojte me shvatiti pogrešno jer kada sam to prvi puta čula --

aside from the fact that I thought he was insane --

osim činjenice da sam mislila da je on skroz poludio --

I got that thump in my chest,

osjetila sam udarac u grudima --

just that "huh?"

jednostavno onaj "huh".

But very quickly I recovered. It was like that.

Ali brzo sam se oporavila. Samo tako.

The first thing I thought about was my mom,

Prva stvar na koju sam pomislila bila je moja mama

who was crying over beside me.

koja je plakala kraj mene.

And I swear to God, I walked out of his office,

I kunem se, izašla sam iz te ordinacije

"I will drive. I will drive.

"Ja ću voziti. Ja ću voziti.

You're mad. I'll drive. I know I can drive."

Vi ste ludi. Vozit ću. Znam da mogu voziti."

And with the same dogged determination

S istom upornom odlučnošću

that my father had bred into me since I was such a child --

koju je moj otac usadio u mene dok sam bila još dijete --

he taught me how to sail,

naučio me ploviti

knowing I could never see where I was going, I could never see the shore,

znajući da nikada neću vidjeti kamo idem, da nikad neću vidjeti obalu,

and I couldn't see the sails, and I couldn't see the destination.

da ne mogu vidjeti jedra i da neću vidjeti odredište.

But he told me to believe

Ali mi je rekao da vjerujem

and feel the wind in my face.

i osjetim vjetar na licu.

And that wind in my face made me believe

Taj vjetar na licu je učinio da vjerujem

that he was mad and I would drive.

da je on lud i da ću ja voziti.

And for the next 11 years,

I sljedećih 11 godina

I swore nobody would ever find out that I couldn't see,

kunem se, nitko nikada nije saznao da ja ne vidim,

because I didn't want to be a failure,

zato što nisam htjela biti promašaj,

and I didn't want to be weak.

i nisam željela biti slaba.

And I believed I could do it.

I vjerovala sam da ja to mogu.

So I rammed through life as only a Casey can do.

I tako sam se probijala kroz život kako to samo Casey može.

And I was an archeologist, and then I broke things.

Bila sam arheologinja pa sam lomila stvari.

And then I managed a restaurant, and then I slipped on things.

Zatim sad vodila restoran pa sam posrtala preko stvari.

And then I was a masseuse. And then I was a landscape gardener.

Zatim sam bila maserka. Pa sam bila vrtlar.

And then I went to business school.

Zatim sam upisala poslovnu školu.

And you know, disabled people are hugely educated.

I ljudi s poteškoćama su visoko obrazovani.

And then I went in and I got a global consulting job with Accenture.

Zatim sam ušla i dobila posao globalnog konzultanta u tvrtci Accenture.

And they didn't even know.

I oni nisu ni slutili.

And it's extraordinary

A to je bilo izvanredno

how far belief can take you.

kako daleko vas vjerovanje može odvesti.

In 1999,

1999.

two and a half years into that job,

nakon dvije i pol godine u tom poslu,

something happened.

nešto se dogodilo --

Wonderfully, my eyes decided, enough.

čudesno, moje oči su odlučile, dosta.

And temporarily,

I privremeno,

very unexpectedly,

veoma neočekivano,

they dropped.

one su klonule.

And I'm in one of the most competitive environments in the world,

A nalazim se u jednom od najnatjecateljskijih okružja na svijetu

where you work hard, play hard, you gotta be the best, you gotta be the best.

gdje teško radiš, igraš oštro, moraš biti najbolji, moraš biti najbolji.

And two years in,

Nakon dvije godine u poslu,

I really could see very little.

zaista sam mogla vidjeti vrlo malo.

And I found myself in front of an HR manager

Našla sam se pred menadžerom ljudskih potencijala

in 1999,

1999.

saying something I never imagined that I would say.

govoreći nešto što nisam mislila da ću ikada reći.

I was 28 years old.

Imala sam 28 godina.

I had built a persona all around what I could and couldn't do.

Izgradila sam predodžbu oko sebe što mogu, a što ne mogu.

And I simply said,

Jednostavno sam rekla:

"I'm sorry.

"Žao mi je.

I can't see, and I need help."

Ja ne vidim i trebam pomoć."

Asking for help can be incredibly difficult.

Tražiti pomoć može biti nevjerojatno teško.

And you all know what it is. You don't need to have a disability to know that.

I svi vi znate kako je to; ne morate imati poteškoće da bi to znali.

We all know how hard it is

Svi znamo kako je teško

to admit weakness and failure.

priznati slabost i neuspjeh.

And it's frightening, isn't it?

To je zastrašujuće, nije li?

But all that belief had fueled me so long.

Ali to vjerovanje me pokretalo tako dugo.

And can I tell you, operating in the sighted world when you can't see,

I mogu vam reći, živjeti u svijetu vida kada ne možete vidjeti

it's kind of difficult -- it really is.

pomalo je teško -- zaista jest.

Can I tell you, airports are a disaster.

Mogu li vam reći, zračne luke su katastrofa.

Oh, for the love of God.

O, za ljubav božju.

And please, any designers out there?

I molim vas, svi dizajneri ovdje.

OK, designers, please put up your hands, even though I can't even see you.

Dizajneri, molim vas podignite ruke, iako vas ne mogu vidjeti.

I always end up in the gents' toilets.

Uvijek sam ulazila u muške toalete.

And there's nothing wrong with my sense of smell.

Iako je sve bilo u redu s mojim njuhom.

But can I just tell you,

Mogu li vam reći samo ovo?

the little sign for a gents' toilet or a ladies' toilet

Mali znak za muški ili ženski toalet

is determined by a triangle.

određen je trokutom.

Have you ever tried to see that

Jeste li to ikada pokušali razaznati

if you have Vaseline in front of your eyes?

imajući vazelin pred očima?

It's such a small thing, right?

To je tako mala stvar, točno?

And you know how exhausting it can be

Znate kako iscrpljujuće može biti

to try to be perfect when you're not,

pokušavati biti savršen kada to niste

or to be somebody that you aren't?

ili biti netko tko niste?

And so after admitting I couldn't see to HR,

Nakon priznanja da ne vidim menadžeru ljudskih potencijala,

they sent me off to an eye specialist.

poslali su me očnom specijalistu.

And I had no idea that this man was going to change my life.

Nisam imala pojma kako će taj čovjek promijeniti moj život.

But before I got to him, I was so lost.

Prije nego li sam došla do njega, bila sam tako izgubljena.

I had no idea who I was anymore.

Nisam više znala tko sam.

And that eye specialist, he didn't bother testing my eyes.

I taj očni specijalist se nije zamarao pregledom mojih očiju.

God no, it was therapy.

Bože ne, to je bila terapija.

And he asked me several questions,

Pitao me nekoliko pitanja

of which many were, "Why?

od koji su mnoga bila "Zašto?

Why are you fighting so hard

Zašto se tako teško boriš

not to be yourself?

ne biti ono što jesi?

And do you love what you do, Caroline?"

Voliš li ono što radiš, Caroline?"

And you know, when you go to a global consulting firm,

Znate kada radite za globalnu konzultantsku tvrtku,

they put a chip in your head, and you're like,

kao da stave čip u vašu glavu:

"I love Accenture. I love Accenture. I love my job. I love Accenture.

"Volim Accenture. Volim Accenture. Volim svoj posao. Volim Accenture.

I love Accenture. I love Accenture. I love my job. I love Accenture." (Laughter)

Volim Accenture. Volim svoj posao. Volim Accenture."

To leave would be failure.

Neuspjeh bi bilo otići.

And he said, "Do you love it?"

A on je rekao: "Voliš li to?"

I couldn't even speak I was so choked up.

Imala sam knedlu u grlu i nisam mogla govoriti.

I just was so -- how do I tell him?

I bila sam tako -- kako da mu kažem?

And then he said to me, "What did you want to be when you were little?"

A onda mi je rekao: "Što si željela biti kada si bila dijete?"

Now listen, I wasn't going to say to him, "Well, I wanted to race cars and motorbikes."

Slušajte, nisam mu mogla reći: "Pa htjela sam se utrkivati autima i motociklima."

Hardly appropriate at this moment in time.

Nije bilo prikladno u tom trenutku.

He thought I was mad enough anyway.

Mislio je da sam ionako dovoljno luda.

And as I left his office,

Kada sam odlazila iz njegove ordinacije,

he called me back

pozvao me natrag

and he said, "I think it's time.

i rekao: "Mislim da je vrijeme.

I think it's time

Mislim da je vrijeme

to stop fighting and do something different."

da se prestaneš boriti i napraviš nešto drugačije."

And that door closed.

I vrata su se zatvorila.

And that silence just outside a doctor's office,

I ta tišina pred njegovom ordinacijom,

that many of us know.

koju mnogi od nas poznaju.

And my chest ached.

Zaboljelo me u grudima.

And I had no idea where I was going. I had no idea.

Nisam imala pojma kamo idem. Nisam imala pojma.

But I did know the game was up.

Ali znala sam da je igra počela.

And I went home, and, because the pain in my chest ached so much,

Otišla sam kući i zbog te ogromne boli u grudima

I thought, "I'll go out for a run."

pomislila sam: "Idem van trčati."

Really not a very sensible thing to do.

To stvarno nije previše suvisla stvar za učiniti.

And I went on a run that I know so well.

Ali otišla sam trčati putem koji jako dobro poznajem.

I know this run so well, by the back of my hand.

Znam taj put tako dobro, kao svoj dlan.

I always run it perfectly fine.

I svaki put otrčim ga savršeno dobro.

I count the steps and the lampposts and all those things

Brojim stube i rasvjetne stupove i sve te stvari

that visually impaired people have a tendency to have a lot of meetings with.

s kojima slabovidne osobe često imaju bliske susrete.

And there was a rock that I always missed.

Tamo je bio kamen koji sam uvijek promašila.

And I'd never fallen on it, never.

Nikada nisam pala preko njega, nikada.

And there I was crying away,

I tako sam trčala plačući

and smash, bash on my rock.

i udarila sam o moj kamen.

Broken, fallen over

Slomljena, pala sam preko

on this rock

tog kamena

in the middle of March in 2000,

sredinom ožujka 2000. --

typical Irish weather on a Wednesday --

tipičnog irskog vremena u srijedu --

gray, snot, tears everywhere,

sivilo, bale i suze posvuda --

ridiculously self-pitying.

nerazumno se sažaljevajući.

And I was floored, and I was broken,

I bila sam prizemljena, i bila sam slomljena,

and I was angry.

i bila sam ljuta.

And I didn't know what to do.

I nisam znala što da radim.

And I sat there for quite some time going,

I sjedila sam tamo neko vrijeme razmišljajući:

"How am I going to get off this rock and go home?

"Kako ću se pomaknuti od ovog kamena i poći kući?

Because who am I going to be?

Zbog toga tko ću biti?

What am I going to be?"

Što ću biti?"

And I thought about my dad,

I pomislila sam na tatu,

and I thought, "Good God, I'm so not Sue now."

i pomislila sam, "Dragi Bože, ja sada nisam Sue."

And I kept thinking over and over in my mind,

I ponavljala sam si u glavi

what had happened? Where did it go wrong? Why didn't I understand?

što se dogodilo? Gdje sam pogriješila? Zašto nisam shvaćala?

And you know, the extraordinary part of it

I najbolje od svega

is I just simply had no answers.

bilo je to da nisam imala odgovore;

I had lost my belief.

izgubila sam vjeru.

Look where my belief had brought me to.

Pogledajte gdje me moje vjerovanje dovelo.

And now I had lost it. And now I really couldn't see.

I sada sam ga izgubila. Sada zaista nisam mogla vidjeti.

I was crumpled.

Bila sam slomljena.

And then I remember thinking about that eye specialist

Onda sam se sjetila onog očnog specijalista

asking me, "What do you want to be? What do you want to be?

koji me pitao, "Što želiš biti? Što želiš biti?

What did you want to be when you were little? Do you love what you do?

Što si željela biti kao dijete? Voliš li to što radiš?

Do something different. What do you want to be?

Učini nešto drugačije. Što želiš biti?

Do something different. What do you want to be?"

Učini nešto drugačije. Što želiš biti?

And really slowly, slowly, slowly,

I zaista polako, polako, polako,

it happened.

se dogodilo.

And it did happen this way.

I dogodilo se ovako.

And then the minute it came,

I tog trenutka mi je došlo

it blew up in my head

banulo mi je u glavu

and bashed in my heart --

odalamilo me u srce,

something different.

nešto drugačije:

"Well, how about Mowgli from 'The Jungle Book'?

"Pa što je s Mowglijem iz 'Knjige o džungli'?

You don't get more different than that."

Ne može biti drugačije od toga.

And the moment, and I mean the moment,

I u trenutku, zaista u trenutku,

the moment that hit me,

u trenutku kada me pogodilo,

I swear to God,

kunem se Bogu,

it was like woo hoo! You know -- something to believe in.

bilo je kao vuuhuu! Znate -- nešto u što mogu vjerovati.

And nobody can tell me no.

I nitko mi nije mogao reći ne.

Yes, you can say I can't be an archeologist.

Da, možete mi reći da mogu biti arheologinja.

But you can't tell me, no, I can't be Mowgli, because guess what?

Ali ne možete mi reći da ne mogu biti Mowgli, jer pogodite?

Nobody's ever done it before, so I'm going to go do it.

Nitko to nikada nije napravio, zato ću to ja napraviti.

And it doesn't matter whether I'm a boy or a girl, I'm just going to scoot.

I nije važno jesam li muško ili žensko, samo ću jurnuti.

And so I got off that rock, and, oh my God, did I run home.

I dignula sam se s kamena i, o moj Bože, kako sam trčala kući.

And I sprinted home, and I didn't fall, and I didn't crash.

i sprintala sam kući i nisam pala i nisam se slupala.

And I ran up the stairs, and there was one of my favorite books of all time,

I potrčala sam uz stube i tamo je bila moja najdraža knjiga svih vremena,

"Travels on My Elephant" by Mark Shand -- I don't know if any of you know it.

"Putovanja na mom slonu" Marka Shanda -- ne znam poznajete li ju.

And I grabbed this book off, and I'm sitting on the couch

Zgrabila sam tu knjigu i sjedila sam na kauču

going, "I know what I'm going to do.

misleći, "Znam što ću učiniti.

I know how to be Mowgli.

Znam kako biti Mowgli.

I'm going to go across India

Proputovat ću Indiju

on the back of an elephant.

na leđima slona.

I'm going to be an elephant handler."

Postati ću jahačica slonova."

And I had no idea

I nisam imala pojma

how I was going to be an elephant handler.

kako postati jahačica slonova.

From global management consultant to elephant handler.

Od globalnog konzultanta za menadžment do jahačice slonova.

I had no idea how. I had no idea how you hire an elephant, get an elephant.

Nisam imala pojma kako. Nisam imala pojma kako unajmiti slona, nabaviti slona.

I didn't speak Hindi. I'd never been to India. Hadn't a clue.

Nisam govorila Hindu. Nikada nisam bila u Indiji -- nisam imala pojma.

But I knew I would.

Ali znala sam da hoću.

Because, when you make a decision at the right time and the right place,

Jer kada donesete odluku u pravo vrijeme na pravom mjestu,

God, that universe makes it happen for you.

Bože, svemir vam to omogući.

Nine months later, after that day on snot rock,

Devet mjeseci kasnije nakon tog dana,

I had the only blind date in my life

imala sam jedini spoj na slijepo u svom životu

with a seven and a half foot elephant called Kanchi.

s 2,3 metra visokim slonom koji se zvao Kanchi.

And together we would trek a thousand kilometers

I zajedno ćemo proputovati tisuće kilometara

across India.

kroz Indiju.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

The most powerful thing of all,

Najmoćnija stvar od svega,

it's not that I didn't achieve before then. Oh my God, I did.

nije da nisam uspjela prije toga -- o moj Bože, jesam.

But you know, I was believing in the wrong thing.

Ali znate, vjerovala sam u pogrešnu stvar.

Because I wasn't believing in me,

Zbog toga što nisam vjerovala u sebe --

really me, all the bits of me --

zaista u sebe, svaki djelić sebe --

all the bits of all of us.

svaki djelić svih nas.

Do you know how much of us all pretend to be somebody we're not?

Znate li koliko nas se pretvara da smo netko tko nismo?

And you know what, when you really believe in yourself and everything about you,

Znate što, kada zaista vjerujete u sebe i sve o sebi,

it's extraordinary what happens.

zapanjujuće je što se događa.

And you know what, that trip, that thousand kilometers,

Znate što, to putovanje tih tisuću kilometara

it raised enough money for 6,000 cataract eye operations.

prikupilo je dovoljno novca za 6.000 operacija rožnice oka.

Six thousand people got to see because of that.

6.000 ljudi je zbog toga progledalo.

When I came home off that elephant,

Kada sam sišla s tog slona,

do you know what the most amazing part was?

znate li što je bila najčudesnija stvar?

I chucked in my job at Accenture.

Gušila sam se na mom poslu u tvrtci Accenture.

I left, and I became a social entrepreneur,

Otišla sam i postala socijalni poduzetnik

and I set up an organization with Mark Shand called Elephant Family,

i pokrenula sam organizaciju s Markom Shandom zvanu "Obitelj slonova"

which deals with Asian elephant conservation.

koja surađuje s azijskim konzervatorijem za slonove.

And I set up Kanchi,

I osnovala sam Kanchi

because my organization was always going to be named after my elephant,

zato što će se moja organizacija uvijek zvati po mom slonu,

because disability is like the elephant in the room.

jer invalidnost je poput slona u sobi.

And I wanted to make you see it in a positive way --

I željela sam da uvidite na pozitivan način --

no charity, no pity.

bez milostinje, bez sažaljenja.

But I wanted to work only and truly

Ali željela sam raditi jedino i istinski

with business and media leadership

u poslovnom i medijskom vodstvu

to totally reframe disability

kako bi totalno preoblikovala invalidnost

in a way that was exciting and possible.

na način kako bi bila uzbudljiva i moguća.

It was extraordinary.

Bilo je izvanredno.

That's what I wanted to do.

To sam željela raditi.

And I never thought about noes anymore, or not seeing,

Nikada više nisam mislila o niti jednom drugom simptomu ili tome da ne vidim,

or any of that kind of nothing.

ili bilo kojoj vrsti ništavila.

It just seemed that it was possible.

Jednostavno se sve činilo mogućim.

And you know, the oddest part is,

Znate, najčudniji dio je

when I was on my way traveling here to TED,

kada sam bila na putu ovamo, na TED,

I'll be honest, I was petrified.

bit ću iskrena, bila sam prestravljena.

And I speak,

I ja govorim,

but this is an amazing audience,

ali ovo je izvrsna publika,

and what am I doing here?

i što to ja radim ovdje?

But as I was traveling here,

Ali putovala sam ovamo,

you'll be very happy to know,

bit ćete sretni što čujete ovo,

I did use my white symbol stick cane,

koristila sam se svojim štapom za slijepe osobe,

because it's really good to skip queues in the airport.

zbog toga što je stvarno dobro izbjeći gužve u zračnoj luci.

And I got my way here

I pronašla sam svoj put ovamo

being happily proud that I couldn't see.

sretno ponosna što ne mogu vidjeti.

And the one thing is that a really good friend of mine,

A jedna dobra stvar je ta, moj zaista dobar prijatelj,

he texted me on the way over, knowing I was scared.

mi je poslao sms poruku dok sam bila na putu ovamo, znajuću kako sam uplašena.

Even though I present confident, I was scared.

Iako izgledam samopouzdano, bila sam uplašena.

He said, "Be you."

Rekao je, "Budi ono što jesi."

And so here I am.

I tako, ovdje sam.

This is me, all of me.

To sam ja, cijela ja.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

And I have learned, you know what,

I naučila sam, znate što,

cars and motorbikes and elephants,

automobili i motocikli i slonovi,

that's not freedom.

to nije sloboda.

Being absolutely true to yourself is freedom.

Sloboda je kada ste apsolutno vjerni sebi.

And I never needed eyes to see -- never.

I nikada mi nisu bile potrebne oči da vidim -- nikada.

I simply needed vision and belief.

Samo sam trebala viziju i vjerovanje.

And if you truly believe --

I ako zaista vjerujete --

and I mean believe from the bottom of your heart --

mislim ako vjerujete iz dna duše --

you can make change happen.

možete ostvariti promjene.

And we need to make it happen,

I moramo to ostvariti

because every single one of us --

zato što svatko od nas --

woman, man, gay, straight,

žena, muškarac, homoseksualac, heteroseksualac,

disabled, perfect,

invalid, savršen,

normal, whatever --

normalan, kako god --

everyone of us

svatko od nas

must be the very best of ourselves.

mora biti najbolja verzija sebe.

I no longer want anybody to be invisible.

Ne želim da više itko bude nevidljiv.

We all have to be included.

Svi se moramo uključiti.

And stop with the labels, the limiting.

I prestanite s etiketiranjem, ograničenjima --

Losing of labels,

gubljenjem etiketa.

because we are not jam jars.

Mi nismo staklenke pekmeza;

We are extraordinary, different, wonderful people.

mi smo izuzetni, drugačiji, predivni ljudi.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)