Hasta La Creative!

I had no idea who Randy Pausch was, I didn’t know what he did neither that a terminal cancer took him away yesterday.

I feel ashamed not to know about this character earlier; but the guys at FayerWayer managed to enlighten a few of us ignorants.

I could celebrate the fact that Pausch was a pioneer in the field of virtual reality or the fact that Time magazine included him in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world. However, all of that isn’t what inspires me the most. What inspieres me most is his sense of being so down to Earth.

The video I’m showing you above apparently caused quite a fuzz around the internet when it was recorded in Spetember 2007. Under the name of “The Last Lecture” and being 76 minutes long, this video shows us a man whose overwhelming achievements become almost anecdotical in this life lesson. He doesn’t explain how to be succesful, he teaches simply to enjoy the ride of life and inspire others to enjoy it as well.

An amazing simpleness that gives you a very warm and close feeling only from hearing Pausch. Besides the fact that he is a guy who clearly enjoys life at a 100% even knowing it’s running out and even takes the time to teach us about the importance of family in a few lovely gestures along the talk.

I’m really embarassed not knowing about his existence, and I know I’m one of the millions of postume homages that’ll pop up all over; but I couldn’t leave a side a person who managed to inspire me and teach me so many things in just an hour of hearing him.

Please take a minute to enjoy the video.