My idea for a TED talk would be about loneliness.I would probably start by making my audience laugh because in the past couple of TED talks I’ve seen not only the ones I searched but from past years I notice how most TED talks start by making their audience laugh before moving along with the main idea of the speech. But since I’m not much of a jokes person I don't think I have the creativity to make a joke up but if I did I would go with “did you know bears are as lonely as I am” and continue with “ the only reason I know that is because google told me bears were the loneliness animals out there after I searched what are the loneliness animals only difference would be they actually like living alone its their nature to be solitary animals but me on the other hand” that's as far as I got to my “Joke”.
My main idea would pop up right after and I would like the audience to participate like “how many of us have felt or are lonely?”, “how many of us actually enjoy being alone?” or “how many of us feel our mental health affected by the idea of being alone?”
I would then mention my main idea ”we've all felt it we've all been there and if you say you havent you are one either lying or two you're just really good at socializing and making friends” my main idea needs some work but I have somewhat of an idea.
I would continue by mentioning a brief example, a personal one as to why being lonely isn't always as bad as people make it seem or at least not for me. I know there are going to be people who will disagree but this is just my own opinion.
I would then go on and mention some sentences(examples?) I read an article that mentioned how COVID had impacted many teens and how the rate of people who felt lonely increased immensely.
I would also mention how there are many people who enjoy and love the idea of living their life alone. As sad as it sounds, we all have our own preferences whether you're a teen or you're an adult.
We all have our own preferences. Some of us like being alone and enjoy our alone time but others would much rather like to have friends and hang out with them very often.
I don't mind it at all but I am aware this can affect us on our health and I am very aware we all think differently this topic isn't really talked about and I wanted to talk about it because its okay to be alone if we are okay with it, not because we have to or because of the difficulty of making friends but because some of us enjoy it and sometimes we need that alone time to work on ourselves.
When I first started looking for examples for my TED talk I wanted to base it on personal experience as well as one where a variety of people can relate to either they are students at school or adults as well. I wrote my whole TED talk as just personal experience at first but as I went on to do some research I started to change some examples as well as going through my proposal and removing some unnecessary information that was not needed. For information I did add I read about two articles and watched some TED talks and by doing so I got to make my ted talk more informational. After doing some research and gathering information I started to organize my proposal by placing each information in their own paragraphs and adding them to where I had deleted unnecessary information . My TED talk was based on not only how people drifted away from their friends but as to what may have caused people to feel lonely because of COVID and how it affects others in their mental health.