I just spent my whole sunday reading "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, and i've got to say it's a really amazing and wonderful book. It's so inspirational with so many things you can learn from it and it's also very touching, and heart-warming at the same time. So for those of you who are wondering what is this video/ book about that i keep harping on that i want to read the book, here's the video, and spend about one hour and watch it, i assure you that you would have a new perspective about things after watching that.

The Last Lecture : Randy Pausch

I guessed the most memorable lesson i learnt from this book would be the one about "Brick Walls". In case you people were wondering about what "Brick Walls" are about, it's basically barriers in your life that pervent you from getting what you want, quoted from the book "Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us chance to show how badly we want something." And speaking of this "Brick Wall", i guessed it's time for a change, you know i've said for like the past 5 years that i wanted to do something about my weight, change the way i communicate with people, and basically do something to improve my quality of life. I'm glad i did improve in certain areas, for example socialising, although i think i could do a better job in maintaining some of them, however there was always this constant "Brick Wall" of fear at being laughed at, fear at losing, fear of not being able to achieve what you want that's stopping me sometimes. I guess after reading the book, it's time for me to really plan out what i really want to do, and how to achieve it, and i'm sure i would be able to do it this time.

Also, i really admire the author Randy Pausch, the purpose of him writing this "Last Lecture" is not to tell us people about how to live our lives and achieve our childhood dreams, rather it's about telling his children whom he can't get to see them grow up, about achieving their dreams and how much their dad loved them and wished he could be around them. And through his story about him with his kids, and him passing on due to cancer, i felt a familiarity linkage with the story of my dad. I think there's already a couple of posts in the past months mentioning how much i missed him and love him, upon reading the book, images of dad came flashing back as though he just left us yesterday. Sometimes, i really wished i could see him for another time.

Another thing to share about this book is about life's little things. There are certain topics in this lecture where it talks about things like being a good team player, and what it signifies, being someone who is truthful, and someone who honours their word, what it actually means, and i thought one really interesting topic would be the one about apologising, for which he said "A bad apology is worse than no apology", than he went on and mentioned about what it means by a good apology, and i think in life many atimes we ignore the fact of a good apology, when we make a mistake, we thought by saying "sorry", everything would be okay, but it comes more to it, and i just believe that great apologies are the ones that come right from the heart.

Lastly, to share one quote/phrase from the book i especially loved, "We cannot change the card we are dealt, just how we play the hand" - Randy Pausch.