Are you living your life in full?

I am always impressed with the conversations with elders who decibed how they live their lives. As odd it could sound like, I do enjoy the conversations with people who are older than me, feeling like to communicate with wiseman/wisewoman. Almost all of them, without any reservation, share with me their happiness, sadness and certain regrets. Their sincerity and patience make me comfortable to tell them my struggles and seek the advice. I like to hear each of their advice, then process these in my brain, plus what I have thought, the final decision is always way better than my single-minded process. That is the main reason that I love to read biography, feeling just like to talk to an elder, listening to his life-long stories.

When I was in Pittsburgh in Feb, visiting CMU for a week. With much of my intersts I went to a few classes, visiting a few people in arts school, music school, CS and Human Computing Institute, as well as Tepper. When I was at HCI, a few professors and students repetitively mentioned one person's name "Randy Pausch", who was a professor there before. When they found out that I have no clue, they asked me if I ever watch TV, I said "no, I do not watch it.". They said "why don't you search online". With sort of wonder and curiousity, I watched Randy's "Last Lecture" on youtube. It was encouraging at the moment when I was questioning myself for the step I plan to take, it was inspiration that I will pursue the dream I have, the brick wall is to stop people who do not want that much, but not for people who desperately want it. It is the strength while I was standing in the cold pittsburgh rainy windy downtown, I told myself that I am still alive, I can coninually dream big and make it happen. It was the soul shaking that I have been too serious about my innovation, forgetting why I decided to start at the beginning -- all about fun! Randy's dark humor delivers a lot beyond the words. My prayers are with his family.

Are you living your life in full? living in your full potencial? If you can choose, will you choose the easy life, well, between meadiocore peacefully living and risky advantrous exploration? it is personal choice, but I know which one I will choose.