How to achieve your childhood dreams

I do sometimes wonder why such good people who have so much to offer to the world are taken away from us so quickly. It seems unfair to those who are left behind.

Professor Pausch's lecture at CMU for me was about getting grounded on what is core to us. It's life. It's how we live life, what we do with our life and with whom we spend it. Everything else that we sometimes get so caught up on is meaningless. All the negative emotions that we feel for ourselves and others is simply a waste of time. And time we don't have a lot of. It's about living in the present and living well where if we had to part with this world today, we would not have any regrets of how we led our life.

So live for now. Be good to others. Take stride on the road to achieving your dreams now. Don't wait for tomorrow to show your affection to those you love and care.

I firmly believe in getting a refresher course like this in grounding myself on my principles of life and refocus on what is "truly important".

I do wish that he is able to continue the battle and live a bit longer.