I Learned from You
"Enjoy your happiness" - Mark Leonard - When I was in school my dad used to tell me, “Be good. Be nice. Have fun”. He felt that those three pieces of advice were enough to ensure that I would be successful and happy. He was right. They were broad enough to encompass every little thing he may have wanted to say to me: “Don’t drink too much.” Have fun/Be good. “Work hard in school.” Be good. “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Be nice. “Follow your [big] dreams. Even the crazy ones.” Have fun. I still often think of those three small pieces of advice. They get me through the moments when I want to say something mean to someone else, the moments when I’m afraid of doing something new, and the moments when I’m faced with a tough decision. When I graduated from Franciscan University in May he gave me a book called The Last Lecture written by former professor at Carnegie Mellon, Randy Paush. Paush wrote the book in the last months of his life while h...