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Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Nick Vujicic Story.
Life Lesson #97 – Dream.
Randy Pausch was born on October 23rd, 1960. As a young boy, he worked very hard in school, but he also had a lot of fun! He used his imagination a lot, too! Randy would sometimes spend hours just dreaming of all the things he wanted to do in his life. Things like being in zero gravity and floating like the astronauts do, playing football with an NFL team, working for Disney, and many more. In fact, he made a list of all the things he wanted to do…and then he set out actually figuring ways to do them!
Randy Pausch went to college, where he eventually became Dr. Randy Pausch, and later he went to work as a computer science professor at a large university in Pennsylvania. It was during that time that he HELPED design some really cool virtual reality rides at Disney World! It was also during that time that he learned he had a bad disease and would not live very much longer.
Dr. Pausch had been having fun all of his life, but now what? Would he become sad and start thinking about how unfair it was that he would not live much longer? Or would he continue to do the things he had always done as long as he could? Well, he decided not only to enjoy life like he always had before but to get really busy teaching others how to have wonderful and happy lives, too! He talked with hundreds of students in college. He wrote a book called, The Last Lecture – a wonderful book that is HELPING millions and millions of people everywhere! “Have fun,” he told them. “Dream.” And six little words, he said, are the most important words you can ever live by: “Tell the truth all the time.”
Yes, that little boy who spent much of his childhood dreaming and making lists, and actually DOING those things on his lists, grew up to become a HERO.
– Jim Lord