After watching Randy Pausch's last lecture , i have to admit i was amazed by all his achievements in his life not only by his academic success or his professional outcome but also his sense of humor , enjoying life , loving and caring people who are close to him etc.
I know i should not say i wish after watching 1.45 minute lecture about being enthusiastic and believe in yourself stuff, but still, i think this is something you have born with it and i think it is called being a happy person ,not only being happy by the environmental reasons but being just happy by yourself without needing anything or anyone.
Anyhow of course this lecture got me thinking about my life, my dreams, my achievements etc. and i cant really say I'm very optimistic about any of those. I find out that all the things that i wished for when i was a child were materialistic or impossible to get.
For example, my biggest dream was my father gets too rich and end up buying me a small country in Europe and then makes me the princess of this country. Yes this was my dream and i don't see its going to happen any time soon or maybe we can say not it's not gonna happen. Other than this,to mention my other dreams, which are more possible but still not gonna happen,was those;
-i always wanted to be a vet
-i always wanted to fly on the clouds
-i wanted to swim into the pool but instead of water it has to be golden money. ( as in scrooge mcduck )
So as you can see ,there is no way that i could achieve those dreams in this life at least and that is already too pessimistic for me to go on living, according to the meaning of life is to achieve your dreams.
But still, i don't want to be this pessimistic so i think i should pick new dreams to achieve to live happily because somewhat you'll never know how long you're gonna live for.I do believe in faith and i do believe in reality which makes it harder though for a person like me who is capable of daydreaming 24/7 and it is already creating contradictions for me about being realistic and daydreaming is not possible work together. however in my position i have to believe in this person who said anything is possible, must have know something.
Other than me or we or our egos, i think the most important think Randy said in the lecture is to help other people to achieve their dreams. i thought that is the greatest saying i have ever heard. It is kind of godlike if i can use such a word but yet it is not proud as it sounds, maybe more like a Princess Diana but not only helping to the people in need but also to the people who ask for your help maybe just your advice, your experiences or anything related with your subject.
I believe i could be the happiest person if i could do something like that.
Personally, i changed my mind every second so i can convert myself to do almost anything and me being happy as a person is not actually what i am looking for but what i really want to do is to make a difference about other people's life, maybe like this as i mentioned above, i really do.
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Really interesting response to the lecture. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteWhy did you decide not to follow your dream to become a vet?
well when i was young my friends scared me with this ridiculous bird story that i have to break its neck to pass the class or something like that and then my father confirmed, not necessarily brak some birds neck but sometimes i may have to kill some of those animals who are in pain. however i didnt even kill a bug in my whole life and an animal in pain that i could never stand to see it so thats why i have to drop off this dream too.
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