The Importance of Brick Walls

Colorful grunge graffiti artwork covering walls in alleyway with skull in Hosier Lane
Three years ago, I watched a very famous lecture given by a professor, Randy Pausch, at Carnegie Mellon University named "My Last Lecture". Basically, it revolves about a simple, yet very helpful, advice about living a joyful life with a child-like prescriptive. Somehow, of all what he said there is that one quote that stuck with me, and I am still recalling it now and then.
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” 
What professor Randy Pausch is discussing the importance of brick walls, on other wards, failure. It is not here to only to BLOCK us form achieving our goals, but to help us prioritize them and reconsider their importance to us. I am not writing this to inspire those who read it to persevere, although this too might be helpful, but I am writing it to point out to the importance of pausing and reflecting if those things we are in pursuit of do really matter to us.





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