What would you do today?

Would you, like the days before, wake up in near tears mulling over a love that's been lost? Would you choose to spend the day in a dark cave, and think, I need to grieve. But until when?

When there is so much beauty left to be discovered, why do we choose oh so often to dwell on the lingering after-taste of a long-gone joy?

Early in the morning, I cried. Not out of despair but out of the sheer emotions one feels when somebody shakes you back into the world. I was watching "The Last Lecture", and although I have watched it a couple of times now, it still drives me to tears. It is the legacy of Dr. Randy Pausch, the dynamic 47-year old Computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University who was given 3-6 months to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

What would you do, if you are at the prime of your life, with a young family, three kids with ages ranging from 2-6 and then be told that you are dying in a few months time? How would you use it? Would you sulk? Imagine what it feels, knowing that you will not be there to guide them, to leave your wife aware of the strength she will have to gather to raise your family? What would you do?

Well, this is what Randy Pausch did, he left us with the now famous Last Lecture, he campaigned for pancreatic cancer research. He spent the remaining days of his life, enabling other people to live their dreams. And that is what made me cry. If he could live so beautifully with so little time, It's about time we do too.

If you haven't seen Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. Please do.

Randy Pausch died at 47 on July 25, 2008. But his words live on.

One of his most-quoted phrase was "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

Lesson learned. :)