Comments on: Don’t You Dare Waste Your Fucking Time

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:15:36 +0000

I’m glad I could move you, you’re very welcome!

By: Rob Middleton

Rob Middleton — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:28:08 +0000

Hi,
It’s a bit late in the day to comment on this post, but I’ve just watch it and it had quite an impact on me. I was watching the last lecture by Randy Pausch beforehand, and together with this it was quite an experience. Anything that moves me to tears has got to have had a positive impact. Thanks for posting this, and also the one about Steve Jobs and your accident.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:34:04 +0000

Thank you. I didn’t watch the video but just the name of this post is very motivating, in a sad but passionate way.

By: Howard Weiss

Howard Weiss — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:29:29 +0000

We are born and we die, and the time between is but a single chord in life’s progression. Far too many of us grasp on to the single note, and we fall deaf to the symphony of life. Far too many of us do not seize the opportunities of the moment, fooling ourselves into believing the waters that sustain us will flow eternally. Pete, thank you for your message. The untimely passing of my wife Roberta, made me understand its import — unfortunately, too late. Indeed, daily we waste our ideas, our emotions, and our words on things trifling and irrelevant. Steeped in negative thoughts and restrained by petty fears. Without reference to the mortality that without warning sweeps us away. That being the one and only objective reality.

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:07:38 +0000

Hey Pete,

I remember reading a quote by (I think) Elizabeth Kubler Ross where she says that it’s really our denial of our own mortality that stops us from fully living. We live pretending that we’ll live forever – and that when someone realizes that they are dying, and come to terms with their mortality, it takes away that fake security they had of being invincible.

Great video.
.-= Sid Savara´s last blog ..7 Common Procrastination Excuses =-.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:22:49 +0000

True! It means choosing your life, and often leads far astray of the status quo.

Maybe there’s an insight here: people say they fear public speaking more than death. They don’t like to have the spot light on them, they are afraid of looking foolish or failing. Stepping out of the status quo sets us up to be in front of people and possibly fail.

There’s another parallel here too I think:

No one was ever fired for choosing Microsoft, as the saying goes. No one was ever ostracized for going to college and getting a “good” job. The implication, of course, being that if you choose the off brand (software, or life) that seems awesome, and something goes wrong… well, you have to take responsibility for the failure, instead of pinning it on some external factor. Terrifying.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:59:16 +0000

it takes real courage to live life fully because it means stepping into your own personal spotlight of uniqueness and standing out from the crowd. cheers to gabriella, thanks for the reminder.