have you heard of this man? tonight i finally got to some actual content in oprah magazine, and there, on the very very last page, was oprah’s back page column, and she mentioned Dr. Randy Pausch, “the Carnegie Meloon professor who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a short time to live.” who was this guy? why was he on Oprah?
so i looked him up, and he’s only 47 years old, and in august he had a recurrence of pancreatic cancer and the doctor gave him only three to six more healthy months. and then he gave a speech at carnegie mellon, where he’d been a professor, and the video of the speech has been ALL OVER THE INTERNET, except of course i never heard of it. but i watched it tonight, the whole thing, over an hour long. it’s very inspiring; his message is basically that you need to live life as best as you can, you need to spend every day enjoying it. the lecture is also, of course, incredibly sad, because this man actually knows he has very little time left.
but nobody knows how much time they have left, which is why you have to make the most of today.
if you want to watch the video, here is the link. (you’ve probably already seen it, since on google alone it’s been viewed 351,567 times, not to mention the viewing on youtube).
now go out and enjoy yourself.
ok then,
wednesday grace.