Wednesday night I drove home, hopeful to catch the last few minutes of America’s Next Top Model. Around ten, I caught glimpse of a preview for an ABC special I had interest in watching and decided I would tune in.
Blessed that I did.
Have you heard of Randy Pausch? I hadn’t. Tonight I was introduced to him, his beautiful wife, and his 3 kids. This professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon is suffering from fatal pancreatic cancer. He is truly inspirational, not because of all the crazy things he’s doing before he dies, but because of the magical legacy of hope he is leaving.
You must watch this special to really get this. Or his famed lecture: The Last Lecture:
If you choose not to watch, yet, here are some true gems from this wonderful man:
- “I’ve never found anger to make a situation better.”
- “Tell the truth… all the time”
- “Can you see love? Can you see hope? No. But it is real.”
- When talking to girls about boys, “Ignore everything they say, pay attention to what they do.”
I am rarely moved so greatly as I was tonight. He said, when speaking about leaving his family:
“Someone is going to push my family off a cliff very soon and I wont be there to catch them… but, I have some time to sew some nets.”
This is true for all of us. Sew furiously.
“Please don’t die, all the magic will leave with you.” -Jai Pausch
