This week I had the opportunity to listen Randy Pausch Last Lecture and he mentions about when he was little his family went to Disneyland and he had this dream to create things like that. But what I think help him to achieved those dreams are his parents that didn’t stop him for dreaming. The video mentions that his parents let him write in the walls mathematical formulas and those are still on the walls until this day. He asked all the parents a special favor that is their kids want to paint their room, please let them. This request could have come pretty handy if my parents would have listened to this request earlier. One summer me and my sisters wanted to paint our room in pastel colors and my parents didn’t let us and the following summer my parents went on a business trip and we painted our room by the time they came back, there is a saying that said “Is better to ask for forgiveness then ask for permission” and that is what we did. Going back to childhood dreams, I think those are important because our childhood is where we dream and nothing is impossible. When we grow up is where we can make those reality, specially if your parents help you feed those dreams. Also, I think that childhood dreams make a better world and also the greater companies and inventions have started in a child dream. This led me to one of my childhood dreams. My parents had a pest control company and every year or two they change their sales receipts and they will let us play with that and me and my siblings will play office. I was determined to have a childcare with a school inside of it. I know this can be possible. I think I am getting the experience I need; I open my in-home child care in 2010 and every year I see this dream closer and closer. I really like the last words of Randy Pausch in the video he said “It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”

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