"Don't Be Me" - the Three Words That Raised Me | Pallavi Verma | TEDxGateway GIS

When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, "What will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?" Here's what she said to me. And what she said to me was, "Palvie, whatever you be, don't be me." As my mother sat there on one of four chairs in the dining room table at our home, peeling an orange, I wondered if the tears in her eyes were shooting stars that she was wishing upon. And if so, what was she wishing for. I wondered if the peels of the orange that she was holding on to so tightly, was she lookin ...