A couple of months ago a Facebook buddy posted a video on my Superwall. I never really look at those things, but I got curious. The video was an excerpt from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture Series. Wow! I was floored.
I'm not going to try to explain what he said or how inspirational his words were. That would be useless. But, if you have not had the opportunity to see Randy Pausch, just type his name in any search engine and you'll get a bunch of links. Right now, however, it might be a difficult task to connect to any one of them. You see, he passed away this morning. He knew he was dying. Well, all of us are, but he had a specific expiration date, so to speak. He was dying of pancreatic cancer.
Ever since I saw the video all I could do was hope for a miracle...hope that he would be the one to beat the odds. A man like that should be able to live for ever. But then it hit me: sometimes loss and sacrifice is exactly what we need to realize how important some thing or some one is.
His words are important to me because they made me reevaluate my career path. I suppose that many people have had the same reaction and that's awesome.
I sympathize with his wife, children and family. I hope that they can find comfort in his words and the time they shared with him. I hope that they know how important it is that a man like Randy Pausch had a chance to live in this world and touch so many lives.
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