Randy Pausch（兰迪·波许）在母校毕业典礼上的最后演讲（全文）

Randy Pausch在卡内基梅隆大学毕业典礼上 的最后演讲（全文）

我很高兴今天能够来到这里。天啊，我也很高兴今天我还活在世上。 Cohon校长邀请我回来给大家一些鼓励。我向诸位保证，你们刚刚给我的鼓励更多。这所学校棒极了！我从很多方面了解它。我也曾从这里毕业，遗憾的是并没有申请上研究生。然而一位恩师邀我回来并说:我们改变主意啦，你被录取了。

许多年以后，我被聘任到这里执教。这是一个所有人都梦寐以求的机会。在这里，你可以听从心灵的召唤，追随激情，并能够做自己爱做的事。这所学校胜过其他学校的地方在于当你尝试实现梦想时，没有人会阻拦你。这太棒了！我无比的热爱这所学校，也爱这里的所有人。我十分感激Jerry Cohon校长和我的同事，感谢他们给我的温情。

去年8月，我被告知只能再活3到6个月了。可现在9个月已经过去了。我不准备秀一下俯卧撑了（在他那篇著名的演讲开始时，他曾秀过一次）...但一会将有一个小型的篮球赛。

当我说完前面的那些数字后，有些人对我说：“天啊，你真的战胜了冷酷的死亡。”而我毫不犹疑的回答他：“仅靠多活几天是不能战胜死亡的。战胜死亡最好的方式是活的更好，更有意义。”

人终会有一死，关键是从出生的那一刻起到死亡降临的这一段时间内，我们都做了什么。当死亡降临时，一切将为时已晚。可这是我们终究要面对的。因此，关于如何才能活的更好，我给大家的唯一建议是，请千万牢记——虽说这是老生常谈，但我喜欢老生常谈：临终时我们不会后悔做过某些事，而是后悔没有去做某些事。

坦率地说，我也曾做过很多傻事，但它们中没有一件令我烦恼。所有那些犯过的错，做过的蠢事，还有令我尴尬的时刻，其实它们都不重要。真正重要的是，当我回首往事时，我会说：'只要有机会去做那些很酷的事，我将会毫不犹豫的去争取。'这才是让我心满意足的人生。

第二件我想说的事就是，我并没有特意为这次演讲规划。但我想这两个字很合适，那就是激情二字。你们必须要找到自己的激情。你们当中有些人已经找到了，许多人将来也会找到，也许很多人要到三、四十岁时才找得到。但是千万不要放弃寻找你的激情。你若放弃了，那你所做的一切无非就是等待死亡的到来。去寻找你的激情，并让你的心灵去追随它吧！

如果说我这一生中学到了什么的话，那就是你不可能在物质的满足中找到激情。你不会在金钱中找到激情。因为你拥有的财富越多，你就越有可能用它去衡量你周围的世界，然而总是有人比你更富有。

因此，激情必须来自于能让你内心满足的事物。荣誉和奖赏是好事，但它们必须出于同行们真心的尊敬。或是像我一样幸运，能够被我尊敬的人所认同，这才是最大的荣幸。

去寻找你的激情吧。在我看来，无论你从事什么样工作，处在怎样的环境当中，激情都是和人有关的。激情源于人和人之间的关系，源于当你离开的那一天，人们对你的看法。

如果你能赢得身边人的尊敬，就会获得他们的激情和真爱，正如我之前所说。我等到39岁才结婚，是因为我必须等这么久才能找到一位她的幸福比我的幸福还要重要的人。抛开一切其他不谈，我祝在座的各位，此生都能够找到那样的激情和真爱。 谢谢！（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!