Value of life can be best told by a man who knows that every second is pushing him near his death. How easily we tend to take our life for granted! How blatantly we ignore the things that matter in our lives knowing we have a great deal of time ahead of us!
The Last Lecture has been authored by ‘Randy Paush’, Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellow University in Pittsburgh. He was diagnosed with ‘Pancreatic Cancer’ and had just few months left for his destined death. Then, he decided to deliver his last lecture (at his University) titled ‘Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’, which went viral on You Tube.
This book does not deal with the lecture he delivered as the name might suggest. But it is more about his life, his family, his work and the story about his childhood dreams and how these dreams came true, and the invaluable lessons he learnt in his life. This book is not about death but living.
In this lucid prose he talks about his three children, his wife ‘Jai’, his days at university and Disney, where he worked as an Imagineer, and his trainers who at some points or other gave him lessons in living.
Randy Paush has emotionally penned down how hard it was for him live with the inevitable, his approaching death. He will make you realize how lucky you are by being blessed with a healthy life. Not only this, this book will enlighten those who are suffering with similar disease and give them a new perspective to live the life with no regrets, the life with no complaints.
Few anecdotes of author’s life will tickle your funny bone while reading few you could not help but to shed tears feeling sorry for the protagonist.
Read this to appreciate your life, read this to learn those lessons that would hardly be taught to you by anybody else, read this to know a little about parenting (yes, he had an amazing childhood and through the pages of this book he has given some sound parenting advice), read this know about a wonderful man and the way he had seen his life.
5 million copies has been sold worldwide. Get your copy and read to get a life-changing experience.