What people say when they don't know what to say | Adrianne Haslet-Davis | TEDxBeaconStreet

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. We say a lot of things when we do not know what to say. When we get that call that our daughter, mother, brother, spouse or any loved one has been confronted with the unimaginable. We spend the entire car ride to the hospital carefully and thoughtfully arranging the words that will miraculously make everything just go away. It comes from a place of love. Yet even deeper than that, Adrianne Haslet-Davis believes, it com