Hi, I'm Ramya Pandyan.
I also go by the
name idea Smith.
Writer hun main, so..
..words and paper are very important to me.
And today I'm going to show you
how a sheet of paper can save your life.
How to make a paper plane.
Start with a sheet of paper
and pick one that
means something to you.
A love letter from somebody who doesn't love you anymore.
An invitation to a wedding that got
canceled.
A page from a book that was a
gift from somebody you don't want to
remember.
Things to do list from that
Wednesday in July when you last met
them.
Oh, this has a lot of things.
Pay bills, refuel car, buy milk, renew
library membership and every item is
neatly ticked off.
Every item except one.
Return alive.
So you take a sheet of
paper just like this one
that has all these messy emotions that refuse to stay
contained in a list and threaten to mess
up your life,
take that sheet of paper
and let's start.
This is a lot of things
this is testimony to what they used to
call your OCD and what you call life.
Okay, so let's fold it over
and then let's fold it over one more
time
so you've got to bury this deep
down inside with all the things in your
life that do work
there's already milk
in your fridge
there's petrol in your car
your library books are not overdue
nothing's pending.
so let's.. let's push this down further and make one more fold
and hope that some of these messes in
your life start to work
and now you take that last excuse from
your pocket. you know which one I'm
talking about.
this is the one that has you saying
but he actually loves me
she is my best friend
we are mostly happy in this relationship
I think I have a good life
you take that excuse
it's been holding
your story together
now you use it to
hold your paper plane together
and then
fold it over one more time
messy messy
so fold it
now you pull up all those
undigested shocks that are twisting
inside your gut
all those unexpressed
feelings that you never never had the
heart to,
the courage to, the chance to
bring up and actually express.
take all of those things that are twisting your
insides and put that twisting into your
paper plane.
twist it over. give it wings.
now
bring up all those breaths that
catch in your throat
all those words that you are not able to scrub out
all those memories, all those kisses that
you're not able to get rid off no matter
how many times you brush
all those status updates that you only ever formed inside your own mind
all those relationships that never made it out
all those breaths that you never exhaled
put them all into your paper plane. tell
it your secrets.
and now take a look at
what you created
you made it so pretty
you made it so good
you took all those
messes inside your soul
and you turned it into art
so you take one last look at
your beautiful paper plane and then you
just let it go
