Finding your life’s purpose – Passion

it is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed it is the things we do [Music] not cuz I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things and none of them bother me all the mistakes and all the Dopey things and all the times I was embarrassed they don't [Music] matter last August I was told that in all likely I had I had 3 to 6 months left to live somebody said to me in light of those numbers wow so you're really beating the Grim Reaper we don't Beat the Reaper by living longer we beat the reaper by living well and living [Music] fully for the reaper will come for all of us the question is what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up cuz when he shows up it's too late to do all all the things that you're always going to kind of get around to when I was 17 I read a quote that went something like if you live each day as if it was your last someday you'll most certainly be right and since then for the past 33 years I looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today remembering that you are are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the Trap of thinking you have something to lose you are already naked there is no reason not to follow your heart and you will need to find your passion many of you have already done it many of you will later many of you may take till your 30s or 40s but don't give up on finding it right because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper as a child my parents always told me you could be whatever you want to be you could do whatever you want to do but I didn't totally believe it yet I went out in the world and I carried myself and I held my head high and I stood there and I looked people in their eyes and I talk to people as if I was deservant of everything that this planet has to offer I really want to say to to children out there and to to people who are watching confucious said one time he who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right and I want you to keep in your heart just know that you can know that you can and it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes but it'll be colored by who you are and more who you want to be I definitely found that uh wanting to be an actor stems from wanting to be somebody I said I'm not losing I'm still here I'm fighting I'm not losing when you die it does not mean that you lose to cancer you beat cancer by how you live why you live and in the manner in which you live find your passion and follow it you will not find that 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 I want the world to be better because I was here if you are not making someone else's life better then you're wasting your time you know like that that your life will become better by making other lives better the first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity why would you be realistic what's the point of being [Music] realistic [Music]