Randy Pausch在卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上 的最后演講（全文）

我很高興今天能夠來(lái)到這里。天啊,，我也很高興今天我還活在世上,。 Cohon校長(zhǎng)邀請(qǐng)我回來(lái)給大家一些鼓勵(lì)。我向諸位保證,，你們剛剛給我的鼓勵(lì)更多,。這所學(xué)校棒極了！我從很多方面了解它,。我也曾從這里畢業(yè),，遺憾的是并沒(méi)有申請(qǐng)上研究生。然而一位恩師邀我回來(lái)并說(shuō):我們改變主意啦,，你被錄取了,。

許多年以后，我被聘任到這里執(zhí)教,。這是一個(gè)所有人都?jí)裘乱郧蟮臋C(jī)會(huì),。在這里，你可以聽(tīng)從心靈的召喚,，追隨激情,，并能夠做自己愛(ài)做的事。這所學(xué)校勝過(guò)其他學(xué)校的地方在于當(dāng)你嘗試實(shí)現(xiàn)夢(mèng)想時(shí),，沒(méi)有人會(huì)阻攔你,。這太棒了！我無(wú)比的熱愛(ài)這所學(xué)校,，也愛(ài)這里的所有人,。我十分感激Jerry Cohon校長(zhǎng)和我的同事，感謝他們給我的溫情,。

去年8月,，我被告知只能再活3到6個(gè)月了。可現(xiàn)在9個(gè)月已經(jīng)過(guò)去了,。我不準(zhǔn)備秀一下俯臥撐了（在他那篇著名的演講開(kāi)始時(shí),，他曾秀過(guò)一次）...但一會(huì)將有一個(gè)小型的籃球賽。

當(dāng)我說(shuō)完前面的那些數(shù)字后,，有些人對(duì)我說(shuō)：“天啊,，你真的戰(zhàn)勝了冷酷的死亡?！倍液敛华q疑的回答他：“僅靠多活幾天是不能戰(zhàn)勝死亡的,。戰(zhàn)勝死亡最好的方式是活的更好，更有意義,?！?

人終會(huì)有一死，關(guān)鍵是從出生的那一刻起到死亡降臨的這一段時(shí)間內(nèi),，我們都做了什么,。當(dāng)死亡降臨時(shí)，一切將為時(shí)已晚,?？蛇@是我們終究要面對(duì)的。因此,，關(guān)于如何才能活的更好,，我給大家的唯一建議是，請(qǐng)千萬(wàn)牢記——雖說(shuō)這是老生常談,，但我喜歡老生常談：臨終時(shí)我們不會(huì)后悔做過(guò)某些事,，而是后悔沒(méi)有去做某些事。

坦率地說(shuō),，我也曾做過(guò)很多傻事,，但它們中沒(méi)有一件令我煩惱。所有那些犯過(guò)的錯(cuò),，做過(guò)的蠢事,，還有令我尷尬的時(shí)刻，其實(shí)它們都不重要,。真正重要的是,，當(dāng)我回首往事時(shí)，我會(huì)說(shuō)：'只要有機(jī)會(huì)去做那些很酷的事,，我將會(huì)毫不猶豫的去爭(zhēng)取,。'這才是讓我心滿意足的人生。

第二件我想說(shuō)的事就是,，我并沒(méi)有特意為這次演講規(guī)劃。但我想這兩個(gè)字很合適，那就是激情二字,。你們必須要找到自己的激情,。你們當(dāng)中有些人已經(jīng)找到了，許多人將來(lái)也會(huì)找到,，也許很多人要到三,、四十歲時(shí)才找得到。但是千萬(wàn)不要放棄尋找你的激情,。你若放棄了,，那你所做的一切無(wú)非就是等待死亡的到來(lái)。去尋找你的激情,，并讓你的心靈去追隨它吧,！

如果說(shuō)我這一生中學(xué)到了什么的話，那就是你不可能在物質(zhì)的滿足中找到激情,。你不會(huì)在金錢中找到激情,。因?yàn)槟銚碛械呢?cái)富越多，你就越有可能用它去衡量你周圍的世界,，然而總是有人比你更富有,。

因此，激情必須來(lái)自于能讓你內(nèi)心滿足的事物,。榮譽(yù)和獎(jiǎng)賞是好事,，但它們必須出于同行們真心的尊敬?；蚴窍裎乙粯有疫\(yùn),，能夠被我尊敬的人所認(rèn)同，這才是最大的榮幸,。

去尋找你的激情吧,。在我看來(lái)，無(wú)論你從事什么樣工作,，處在怎樣的環(huán)境當(dāng)中,，激情都是和人有關(guān)的。激情源于人和人之間的關(guān)系,，源于當(dāng)你離開(kāi)的那一天,，人們對(duì)你的看法。

如果你能贏得身邊人的尊敬,，就會(huì)獲得他們的激情和真愛(ài),，正如我之前所說(shuō)。我等到39歲才結(jié)婚,，是因?yàn)槲冶仨毜冗@么久才能找到一位她的幸福比我的幸福還要重要的人,。拋開(kāi)一切其他不談,，我祝在座的各位，此生都能夠找到那樣的激情和真愛(ài),。 謝謝,！（完）

以下是英文稿：

I am glad to be here today, Hell, I am glad to be anywhere today.

President Cohon asked me to come and give the charge to the graduates. I assure you, it's nothing compared to the charge you have just given me.

This is an incredible place. I have seen it through so many lenses. I saw it when I was a graduate student that didn't get admitted and then somebody invited me back and said, OK, we'll change our mind.

And I saw it as a place that hired me back to be on the faculty many years later and gave me the chance to do what anybody wants to do, which is ,follow their passion, follow their heart and do the things they're excited about. And the great thing about this university unlike almost all the other ones I know of is that nobody gets in your way when you try to do it. And that's just fantastic.

And to the degree that a human being can love an institution. I love this place and I love all of the people and I am very grateful to Jerry Cohon and everyone else for all the kindness that have shown me.

Last August I was told that in all likelihood I had three to six months left to live. I am on month nine now and I am not gonna get down and do any push-ups…But there will be a short pick-up basketball game later.

Somebody said to me, in light of those numbers, wow, so you are really beating the Grim Reaper. And what I said without even thinking about is that we don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well, and living fully.

For the Reaper will come for all of us, the question is that what we do before the time we are born and the time he shows up. 'cause he shows up it is too late to do all the things that you're always gonna kind of 'get round to'. So I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember, it's a cliché, but love cliché, 'it is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not'.

'cause I assure you I've done a lot of stupid things and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, all the dopy things and all the times I was embarrassed they don't matter. What matter is that, I can kind of look back and say, 'pretty much anytime I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it.' And that's where my solace come from.

The second thing I would add to that, and I didn't coordinate on the subject of this word but I think it's the right word that comes up, is passion. And you will need to find you passion. Many of you have already done it, many of you will later, many of you will take till your 30s or 40s. But don't give up on finding it. Alright? 'cause then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. Find you passion and follow it.

And if there's anything I have learned in my life, you will not find passion in things. And you will not find that passion in money. Because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the metric, and there will always be someone with more.

So your passion must come from the things that fuel you form the inside. And honors and awards are nice things but only to be the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers. And to be thought well of by other people that you think even more highly of is a tremendous honor that I've been granted.

Find you passion and in my experience, no matter what you do at work or what you do in official settings, that passion would be grounded in people. And it will be grounded in the relationships you have with people, and what they think of you, when you time comes.

And if you can gain the respect of those around you, and the passion and true love, and I've said this before, but I waited till 39 to get married because I had to wait that long to find someone where her happiness was more important than mine. And if nothing else I hope that all od you can find that kind of passion and that kind of love in your life. Thank you!