Randy Pausch ,一位幽默,勇敢,又充滿熱情的生命導師.
這是他生前在Carnegie Mellon大學畢業典禮上的致詞, 影片中已有網友將內容英譯中, 而以下則是影片中的原文:
President Cohon asked me to come and give the charge to the
graduates. I assure you, it's nothing compared to the charge you
have just given me.
This is an incredible place.I have seen it through so many lenses.
I saw it when I was a graduate student that didn't get admitted
and then somebody invited me back and said, “OK, we'll change
our mind.”
And I saw it as a place that hired me back to be on the faculty
many years later and gave me the chance to do what anybody wants
to do, which is ,follow their passion, follow their heart and do
the things they they're excited about.
And the great thing about this university unlike almost all the
other ones I know of is that nobody gets in your way when you
try to do it. And that's just fantastic.
And to the degree that a human being can love an institution.
I love this place and I love all of the people and I am very
grateful to Jerry Cohon and everyone else for all the kindness
that have shown me.
Last August I was told that in all likelihood I had three to
six months left to live. I am on month nine now and I am not
gonna get down and do any push-ups…But there will be a short
pick-up basketball game later.
Somebody said to me, in light of those numbers, ”Wow! so you
are really beating the Grim Reaper.“ And what I said without
even thinking about is we don't beat the Reaper by living longer.
We beat the Reaper by living well, and living fully.
For the Reaper will come for all of us, the question is what
do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up.
Because when he shows up it is too late to do all the things
that you're always gonna kind of "get round to". So I think
the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is,
first off, remember, it's a cliche, but love cliche,
"It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our
deathbed, it is the things we do not".
Because I assure you I've done a lot of stupid things and none
of them bother me. All the mistakes, all the dopy things and
all the times I was embarrassed they don't matter. What matter
is that, I can kind of look back and say, "Pretty much anytime I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it."
And that's where my solace come from.
The second thing I would add to that, and I didn't coordinate
on the subject of this word but I think it's the right word
that comes up, is passion.
And you will need to find you passion. Many of you have already
done it, many of you will later, many of you will take till your
30s or 40s. But don't give up on finding it. right? Because then
all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. Find you passion and
follow it.
And if there's anything I have learned in my life, you will not
find that passion in things. And you will not find that passion
in money. Because the more things and the more money you have,
the more you will just look around and use that as the metric,
and there will always be someone with more.
So your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the
inside. And honors and awards are nice things but only to be the
extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.
And to be thought well of by other people that you think even
more highly of is a tremendous honor that I've been granted.
Find you passion and in my experience, no matter what you do at
work or what you do in official settings, that passion would be
grounded in people. And it would be grounded in the relationships
you have with people, and what they think of you, when your time
comes. And if you can gain the respect of those around you, and
the passion and true love, and I've said this before, but I waited
till 39 to get married because I had to wait that long to find
someone where her happiness was more important than mine.
And if nothing else I hope that all of you can find that kind of
passion and that kind of love in your life.
Thank you!
