One of the primary purposes Randy Paush hoped to
accomplish with The Last Lecture was to share with his listeners the insights into how
to live life well that he felt he had gained during his life. His method of sharing
these insights was frequently through the telling of anecdotes that illustrated the
point he hoped to make.
His wife, Jai, was distraught
because she had backed one vehicle into the other, causing dents in Randy's Volkswagen
convertible. She spent the day agonizing and preparing a very special meal to soften the
upset she anticipated when she told him of the
accident.
When the time came and she did tell him what had
happened, his actual reaction was to say that it was not a problem, that the VW was
still drivable and they would continue to use it, complete with dents. His point was
that, in the overall scheme of life, dents in the car were not important or worthy of
consuming time and energy.
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