One of my mentors once told me to "live each day as if it is your last, and to live each day as if it is the first day of the rest of your life." Watching this video of Randy Pausch's last lecture at Carnegie Mellon kinda puts that in perspective. Pausch knew he only had 3-6 months to live when he gave the lecture.
It's long, but worth watching every minute of!
It'll put some priorities in the right order.
Most of us have seen or read stories of adoptions of Haitian children following the earthquake last month. Some of the stories have had a positive slant (the charity has saved children...) other's have had a negative slant (the "missionaries" who kidnapped and tried to smuggle 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic). At a family gathering yesterday, my wife heard a story about a couple that was "finally" able to adopt a child they've been trying to adopt for about 4 years. As the story was related to me, this couple had originally been matched with this child about 4 years ago, but the adoption was cancelled when the parents of the child took her back and parented her themselves. After about three years of caring for the child, the natural parents returned her to the orphanage because both of them had been diagnosed with tuberculosis; a death sentence in Haiti. (Mortality for untreated TB is about 67%.) The adoption was finalized just befo...
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