Name: TEDx】好きなことを好きになる。TEDxBratislavaでのIllah van Oijenの様子 (【TEDx】Love what you do: Illah van Oijen at TEDxBratislava)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:59:41.000Z
Duration: 14 min 24 s
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I am going to tell you today about my hero.

過去形

She was a child of the 60´s in the Netherlands

she had opened up the first meditation and yoga center in the Haag,

she had opened up her own restaurant of vegetarian organic food

outside in line to get in and to eat there.

Having a mother like this and living in a time where

because of her and her friends - what they did for my society

We had spiritual freedom, I went to Waldorf school with my friends.

I can't remember that we had anything to fight for.

I had a beautiful community around me that supported me

and I always knew that I had to thank my mother for that.

Then I decided to move to Slovakia and my mother visited me here.

She did not really connect to what she saw here.

But she was positive about few things. She said WOW!

Slovakia in the contrary to the overcrowded and overdeveloped Netherlands

is a country that can really take care of its own agricultural production.

So she felt safe that I lived in a country

that could really take care of itself in a time of crisis.

Because you don't believe that your country is capable of something like that.

This is a truth that I did not want to tell my mom.

No mom, I live in a country where the majority of people

and they don't believe that there is a chance

because after socialism there came corruption for 20 years?

And that most people are just burying their heads in the sand

as they saw their mothers and their grandmothers do?

because there are just few people in power

whenever they can and leaving very little

e.g. for healthcare and taking care for old people.

I told her what the reason is why I DO live in Slovakia.

The reason that I live here is that I met from the 1st second,

I mean the 1st person that I met in Slovakia

that really opened her heart for me was Bety Majernikova.

I was surrounded by people that were just amazing.

The country that does not really work in a perfect way.

In a way that I knew about society and community.

And they would fight for what they wanted to do.

And I told her how great inspiration that is for me.

The next time I saw my mom I had to go to her.

I have to say that this was a great gift to be able to spend this time with my mom.

We used to sit and I used to massage her feet or her back.

One day we were just cuddling and sitting and she told me

"Illah", just out of the blue "I have to thank you.

I have to thank you for the fact that you were born."

"Yes, because you were born I learned what is most important in life.

And that is unconditional love and patience. "

thanks to amazing healthcare system in the Netherlands,

With her own surroundings, with her own family around her.

We were able to take care of her in her own bed.

We had nurses and doctors coming taking care of her and giving her medicine.

Two years later I was in a Slovak hospital

and I gave birth to a really beautiful beautiful little girl called Meda.

But instead of feeling this love and patience

during my labor the nurses and doctors they were grumpy,

they were yelling at me and asking me weird questions.

The doctors just looked at their watch and they said

"OK. It's time. We're gonna take the baby.

And we're going to do a C-section on you."

Something that I agreed before that that was the last thing to do.

And they kept me in the bed for 4 hours when I woke up

without telling me if I had a baby or not.