"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
- Dale Carnegie
Tuesday afternoon a professor at Carnegie Mellon University gave his final lecture before a crowd of 400 students. Randy Puasch, a 46-year-old father of three, was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer and is expected to live only a few more months. Asked to comment on what he had found to be important in life, he elicited tears from students as he triumphantly shared his life experiences. To read more about his lecture and see a short clip of him speaking, click on the link below:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html
Stories like this one bring our own mortality into focus and give each of us the chance to re-evaluate our direction and our priorities.
Food for Thought: If you found out tomorrow that you were dying of cancer, what would you wish you had done?
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