If your tight on time, I urge you to watch this first video, it's life changing. but if you have a spare 75 minutes, watch the second video, well worth your while. Makes too much sense not to, and will make you a better person.
Short Vid.
Watched the first one. Great video, amazing speech.
Also, why has someone put red thumbs on the first three replies. What did you say that someone thought should be red thumbed???
Cheers
Bubs
For the life of me I cant understand why anyone would thumbs down the 3 previous posts. Its a great vid and when I have time I will watch the longer version.
In actual fact the reason I started windsurfing was because after my cancer and chemo last year, I decided to do things that I had always wanted to do and never got around too. Life is way to short so just go out and do it!
Thanks JB.
Very thought provoking and a fabulous lesson in life's core values.
[don't know what the thumbs down thing is all about though - someone mumbling humbug humbugmaybe]
i saw this "reply" in another post -also very thought provoking.
Reflex,
Does anyone else see the irony in this. Randy Pausch develops virtual worlds, german kid is all consumed by them. [not taking away from Randy's life message]
Quite scary when you think about the availability of guns in some societies and these somewhat mentally challenged adolescents who can't differentiate between reality and make believe.
Was that last video of User contributing to this forum?
First one though leaves you with a lump in your throat
Problem is, if I had months to live I'd blow all my savings, burn all my bridges, do lots of crazy stuff and probably end up bumping off a few old enemies from high school... so I'd rather not live my life like that unless I really WAS dying of cancer!!
Thanks anyway!! I think I'll keep my head buried in the sand!
playing devils advocate here but, if you go out and live every day as if it were your last, when it's not, and you stuff up, you've got a lot longer to live with your mistakes...
He isn't saying "live every day like its your last". If you lived like that you would not achieve anything in life. What would be the point of learning or working towards anything if you didn't care about tomorrow? He cares about tomorrow; thats why he gives these speeches.
What he says, make the most out of your life. Try to achieve what you wanted to do when you were a kid.
Problem for me is I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was a kid. The only thing I did know is I didn't want to be either a builder or a farmer. I grew up on a farm and my dad was a builder. I was so sick of labouring and stuff like that by the time I was about 15.
He doesn't have brain cancer, he has pancreatic cancer which is probably one of the worst to get. My aunt died of it in 2006.
He still seems too good to be true, especially considering the dumb arses they have running the USA.
Not a speech, but a motivational story is the "Terry Fox" story.
This kid lost part of one leg just below the knee to cancer - and to raise money
for cancer research, tried to run across Canada. He ran around 42km a day for 147 consecutive days (with an artificial leg), became ill so he couldn't run any more and died not long after. Google his name for more info
Cheers!
There is so many key points to the speech. And all of them will effect people in different ways. Because some people already do a lot of the things that he says is important, but some of us don't, and this points them out quite clearly.
The best one I like is his reference to brick walls. They are not there to keep you out, but there to see how much you want to get in, and to keep those out that don't want whats in there as much as you. If you have a dream, and it is important to you, don't give up, Even if you don't succeed, what you will get trying it is much more saticifing than giving up.
And also there is so much more in life in helping someone else than yourself.
Take it in, change your life, or stay the same! It can only help.
JB
I saw that in the paper yesterday. Its a sad loss of an very inspirational man. Lets hope his message lives on.