Randy Pausch

Today I was going to write about running (I had a good run today!) - but then I stopped myself. You guys aren't runners! Who really wants to hear about someone who enjoys inflicting pain on himself? I'll just end up sounding crazy! (I'll just cover the subject another day)

So while I was reading the older posts (Which reminds me, I have to respond to Bryant's about MGS4! I finally played it and beat it this year!) I came across the "Edit Posts" button! After clicking on it, I discovered two interesting things:

1.) I noticed Jon was thinking about responding to an old post.
2.) I started a post back on July 26, 2008 entitled "Randy Pausch." Nothing else written, just the title.

While I'd love to talk about #1, I'll wait until Jon finishes his thoughts. I'll talk about #2 instead. I was so close to deleting it, since I had no idea who Randy Pausch was, or why I was even thinking about writing a post on him. But I decided to wiki him instead, and I'm glad I did.

Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was one of six professors asked to give a lecture on life experiences. The twist to this was that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer before opting to do this lecture. He decided to go through with the lecture and gave one of the most touching speeches I have ever heard (I mean it's right up there with Mr. Rogers Dartmouth commencement speech). His lecture was titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." It touches on a lot of what I think life is missing.

I'm going to watch it later tonight just to reflect why I didn't write more about this speech two years ago. Here's the link! Note though, his lecture is about an hour long. I got most of his information after 20 minutes or so...