Book of the Day
Pancreatic Cancer means the journey's end but for Randy Pausch who truly makes life a pleasure to live and relish small moments as we all succumb one fine day.
Being a member of a family that has endured the loss of a loved one to the same ailment, I was forcing myself to keep away from the book, lest it dug up bad memories that tend to haunt you and the invariable guilt that engulfs me to think that I could have done much better and saved him or had him live a little longer. Now, hearing it from another really clears my conscience that we did the best that we could given the circumstances.
His approach to life is a true eye-opener, he renders his real last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University against all those improvised lectures where people tend to live to see if they can achieve.
A true fighter who has achieved his dreams and various incidents cited show him as a true businessman too, his childhood incident where the gift for his parents is replaced by the staff at Disney's and the following goodwill that earns them a golly 1,05,000 over the years of family visits and he takes his bunch of students too.
A life journey that he is indeed proud to share and one we should carry in our hearts to realise too!
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