Randy Pausch Remembering Randy the Most Meaningful

¶ … Randy Pausch Remembering Randy The most meaningful message that I found in Randy Pausch's book The Last Lecture has to do with what the author was telling readers regarding obstacles in the way of fulfilling dreams and ambitions. Specifically, the part of this narrative that pertains to brick walls was particularly enlightening for anyone who is attempting to accomplish goals or to set precedents. The author's conception of brick walls are impediments that prevent -- or at least impede -- people from accomplishing certain tasks.

The following quotation elucidates this point of the author's more fully. "The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something." In many ways, this quotation sums up the author's entire attitude towards life and is the principle theme of this work of literature. There is an undeniable amount of positivity found within this passage, which is indicative of the narrative of the whole.

By looking at potential negative aspects of life as mere instruments to demonstrate our own efficacy and prowess, Pausch has effectively turned bad things good. It is this sort of attitude that must have sustained him in the latter portion of his life. And it is this sort of attitude that sustains the duration of the prose of this manuscript. Additionally, this passage is so insightful for the fact that it allows readers to contextualize their own lives and its impediments.

The brick walls that many people face may not be as drastic as those that the author encountered. Therefore, this sort of wisdom can help people make sense of their own lives, and realize that what they are going through is not so bad in comparison to other things. By using negatives as a means of producing positives, virtually everyone can benefit from some of the proverbs disseminated in The Last Lecture. As a child, I had several dreams and goals that I would like to accomplish.

Many of these are unfulfilled, although some of these I have managed to achieve. I have always had a form of literary ambition. When I was growing up I would routinely view my life events as though they were being narrated by someone else.

I used to go back and forth between thinking of my life in the form of a movie -- predominantly so I could include the soundtrack of the songs I was hearing and that helped to define certain moments -- as well as including the events in a book. I chose the latter because it would enable me to include my thoughts. A couple of years ago a friend and I self-published a book of poetry that allowed me to finally achieve some of my literary ambitions.

However, my principle dream as a child was to help people. I always felt like I had been given a gift that I was to share with the world, and the most direct way I could do so is to provide help in the form of relief to physical discomfort. I believe that practicing as a physical therapist will allow me to achieve those goals.

I am highly anticipating graduating and practicing this craft so that I can use what I believe to be an innate gift for helping people -- which I have of course refined through my years of training and study. I have several career goals that I hope to accomplish as a professional physical therapist. These are some of the most important facet of my life, because they can directly contribute to the fulfillment of my childhood ambition of helping people.

The first goal that I would like to achieve is highly ambitious, perhaps even more so than can realistically be achieved within one or two years of graduation. But if Pausch's book has taught me nothing it is that the pleasure, the joy, and ultimately even the triumph, is in the attempt. I would like to open my own physical therapy practice.

This is not the most pragmatic of desires within the given timeframe allotted within this assignment; I realize the standard method of opening one's own practice in realms such as physical therapy is to work for several years within the industry, develop clientele, and then strike it out on your own. However, I have a couple of friends who are also working as physical therapists, an some are even in their final stages of school for this career.

The idea is that we can pool our resources, talent, and the professional experience that some of us have in order to start our own practice within a couple years of my graduating. Working as a partner in such an endeavor would certainly help to fulfill this professional goal of my. Another goal that I have.