Friday, June 6, 2014

తెలంగాణా గర్వించ దగిన ప్రజా కార్యదర్శి ..

SMITA SABHARWAL,I.A.S

Smita Sabharwal, Collector & District Magistrate, Medak, is a 2001 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Early life and Schooling
Smita, a Bengali, born on 19th June 1977, has done most of her schooling in various parts of the country. Her father, a retired Army officer, Colonel P. K. Das, served in the Indian Army. The last couple of years of school education was from St. Ann's, Marredpally. She later graduated in Commerce from St. Francis Degree College. She is one of the youngest to have cracked the Union Public Service Commission exam securing All India 4th rank and opted for the IAS.
Career
After completing the tough administrative training in Lal Bahadur Sastry, National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, she was trained in Adilabad district in her probationary days. Initial posting was in Chitoor where she served as the Subcollector, Madanapalle and was groomed well, letting her grab hands-on experience. Thereafter she has worked in Rural Development sector as Project Director, DRDA, Kadapa. During her next stint as Muncipal Commissioner, Warangal she introduced "Fund your City" scheme where a large number of public utilities such as Traffic Junctions, Foot-overbridges, Bus-stops, Parks were created with Public-Private partnership(PPP). Later she has served as Deputy Commissioner, Commercial Taxes, Visakhapatnam, and also as Joint Collector of Kurnool and Joint collector of Hyderabad. In April,2011 she took charge as District Collector,
Karimnagar district where she has made significant contribution in the Health and Education sector. Also with the help of Public Representatives, Karimnagar Town underwent a facelift in the form of wider roads, scientifically planned traffic junctions, Bus-stops, Toilets and other public utilities. Karimnagar district was awarded the best district in PM's 20 Point Programme for 2012-2013. Currently, she is the District Collector of Medak District. On 5-June She has been move to a position of Additional secretary in CM office Telengana Chief minister KCR.
she has done a remarkable job with telangana state election May 2014,she educated the people in medak district about voting and also introduced gift for your vote with that she achieved nearly 80% voting in medak district.











Personal Life
She is married to Dr. Akun Sabharwal, IPS who is her batchmate. They are blessed with two children, Nanak and Bhuvias ...

అమ్మా ఐ ఎ ఎస్ ఆఫీసర్ల కె కాదు సకల ప్రజానీకానికి నీ సేవ ఆదర్శం.. నీవు మా తెలంగాణా గర్వించ దగిన ప్రజా కార్యదర్శివి.

                                                                                                                                       Source: wikipedia

Thursday, June 5, 2014

The Story of Jyothi Reddy



When Problems Surround...Normally You SurrenderWhen Limitations Compile...Generally You Com premiseWhen Obstacles Obstruct...Basically You AbstainWhen Pain Persists...Eventually You Go Pale and Perish  


One person proved all these wrong just by her perseverance, hard work, spirit of never-die approach, self confidence, etc. She is none other than Mrs. Anil Jyothi Reddy. Her story is an apt example of rags-to-rich transformation.
You are the creator of your own destiny
Nothing can stop a human being from becoming what he/she wants to achieve in life.
This has been proved by Mrs. Jyothi Reddy with her spectacular travel from a field laborer to the CEO of an organization in the US. This is the true story of Ms. Jyothi Reddy who now owns a software company in the United States of America and who has a great vision to change many lives of women in rural India.
Early Struggle
Jyothi was born in 1970 and she was the youngest among the five girl children in a poor family in India. Due to her family’s financial situation, she was admitted into a welfare orphanage. To get the admission, she had to become a motherless child. It was a heart breaking situation for Jyothi as she could not see her mother during the days when she was in the orphanage. There was nobody to share her happiness and sorrow. Instead of getting down with the situation, Jyothi developed a strong will to make her future bright. She promised herself to work towards creating a better life for her. She learned the way of dealing with life in a hard and practical manner. The hardship taught her the value of life and made her think beyond the situation.
She attended a government school while at the orphanage and she also took vocational course while residing in the superintendent's house. Jyothi used to help her superintendent with their household work. She realized that to lead a beautiful life, she should get a decent job first. She started thinking for the ways to get into a job.
"Man proposes and God disposes" - Same happened to Jyothi as she had to marry at 16 to her cousin, instead of working on to make her dreams come true. After having 2 children, the situation became even worse as she had to work in the fields for a daily wage of Rs. 5 to take care of her children. These situations made her even stronger to stand and fight for life.
Then came an opportunity in the form of NYK (Nehru Yuva Kendra), a Central Government
scheme which sought to create awareness among the youth. She took the opportunity and became a NYK Volunteer and later started teaching. But the money she was making was not sufficient to run the family. She used to stitch petticoats at night to make more money. She also learned typewriting. Apart from her bad financial situation, she also had to fight with family and society to do what she wanted to do. She studied and obtained a BA from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University in 1994 and studied for a postgraduate degree from the Kakatiya University on weekends and obtained it in 1997. This made her get a special teacher job for a salary of Rs. 398 per month. She used to travel for two hours to reach her school. She utilized this time to sell sarees to her co-passengers which gave her some extra income. Her struggle for life made her become conscious about the time and it showed her the ways to utilize the time available creatively.


Her job was regularized and she started making decent money. But she did not want to settle for anything, as her passion to reach a higher level always was haunting her to find the next best. A relative's visit from the US made her think about going to the land of dreams, United States. She studied computer courses to get the eligibility to work in the US. She went to US by leaving her two daughters in a missionary hostel.
Struggle to get Foothold
It was not an easy journey for her to settle in the US. She had to work in a gas station, work as a baby sitter, load/unload goods and work at a video shop for her survival. She then joined a company called CS America as a recruiter with an aid of a close relative. Later she got another offer from a different company, but it did not stay and she had to go back to babysitting and gas station for survival. That was the beginning of her entrepreneurial dreams. She wanted to start her own business and was looking for the suitable line of business to start.
Entry into Entrepreneurial World
When she visited Mexico for stamping, she realized that she could start a consulting company as she was familiar with the paperwork involved with the Visa Processing. With her savings of $40000, she opened an office in Phoenix in 2011. She has been successfully running her company KEYSS since then.
Her two daughters moved to US and completed their education in the American schools.
Social Responsibility
Her practical experiences with a struggling life made her think about doing her part in helping the people in need. Whenever she visits India, she goes to old age homes, orphanages and provides a helping hand to them. She also visits educational institutes to inspire and empower the future generations.



Self Motives and Tireless Effort
Today, her next dream to see that every Orphan in India to get his/her own Identity, recognition and enjoy equal opportunity. Towards reaching that goal, she has been interacting and sensitizing various Government agencies, policy makers, politicians as well as Non-Government Organizations.
In this direction, she had joined hands with other likeminded NGOs Prajadharana Welfare Society, MV Foundation and Child Rights Advocacy Forum (CRAF) and formed a Pressure Group Force for Orphan Rights and Community Empowerment (FORCE). She has already organized a National Seminar at Hyderabad during December 19 - 21, 2011 and submitted a memorandum to the Central Government. She is also organizing National Consultations for Orphans Rights with Parliament Members (MPs) and other Law Makers from 16 – 21, May 2012 at New Delhi.
Need-based Support to Orphans
Through such mission, she wants to help and make all young orphans between the age group of 18 - 35 to get financial independence. Using Vocational Training, she intends to train them and enable them become self confident and self-reliant and improve their employability.
She is also working on her vision which empowers the rural women with skills and makes them self-sufficient.
This is how a girl from a village created her own destiny and went to the top of the world and started helping many.

SO, you are the creator of your own destiny!


 
Family Photo


To Know briefly about herself pleas click the following link:   www.jyothireddy.com  


Thank you Readers:)

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Venkat Rami Reddy Mettu

                                  
We are all facing so many problems in our day-day life. Some may stuck for a reason a real man should not stop his journey of success for a problem or a reason. The best example for this in our friends circle is a pursuit of happiness. And it’s may be inspiration for many of us. He is non-other than my childhood friend venkat rami reddy mettu. Friends used to call him as mettu.

 He is the only one guy who settled well in north India from my  school batch. Acquiring knowledge and applying in the job on time.  Punctual in time, systematic in work dedication for the project are  the only pillars dose make him stand as a System Analyst  in Nihilent Technologies Pvt Ltd since three successful years. As  he is a friendly and kind hearted to his neighbours as lovable and  funny for his wife. She is Anusha a lucky girl from a great  understanding family and from a same state. Venkat a computer  science graduate and she is electronics engineering graduate. He  met her on 9th of Feb 2014 at home town. And now they both are enjoying their couplehood at pune the work place of venkat.
                 Venkat love his village very well. Home town is a favorite destination to him as many. when he went to his village he just used to remind his childhood , while he watching a crop fields, roads, school etc. when it comes to his own house it’s a beautiful villa right now but the shadows of the house are never vanished, when he thinks about his past while sleeping under a tree in front of his home..
                                            
Venkat's parents were farmers having great crop fields in which they cultivate cotton and chillies. His father Mr.Rangareddy(late) a drunker, he used to misuse the money of annual profits on the harvest. 

Mrs.Laxmi, mother of venkat, she unable to stop the enjoyments and royalties of her husband. And misusing the money poverty everything is casual to venkat’s father. As years goes on the assets  reduced and the debts started increasing. One day he felt ill and he took rest. Family goes like sand storms in a desert. In this tight movement venkat's education is effected due to crisis but he is good in his studies from childhood. He decided to stop study due to his family strategy. Sponsors came to support venkat after one year they tired. Any how he came for ssc final exams. 


After he finished his ssc and got second in school. He heard sad news that his father died. He is in a biggest confusion that. He is unable to work coz he has no experience and age, unable to continue studies further coz no money. Then what's his next step will be???

He decided to dedicate his life for catholic priesthood. But a great chance offered him to study intermediate in their college he got that chance according to his ssc marks. He finished his intermediate in madhira junior college kodad. And he continues his btech in the same college with many obstacles financial and social. 

Since he is a jovial person he has many friends around his all time. Whatever the problems he have, he never used to tell to any one instead he used to be happy and making others happy. That’s one of his best attitudes.
There is a great value for friends and friendship in the venkats view. And he is more social responsible guy. The only thing which makes him fears is the losing a good name in the society. Especially in his own village. He love enjoying movies and outings with friend’s sandeep, tharangini, rama, shiva krishna, lachireddy, and many are the best friends for venkat.

                                               
He loves his uncle Mr.Ananthareddy and he always thinks about his mother.
He is having a younger brother (srinivasa reddy) who finished his technical training and presently working for A cement industry. He is also a good guy married and settled in home town and having his own lifestyle. 







After finishing his graduation Venkat not selected for a campus placement and did not work for a recommendation and support. He attended spoken English classes, he has tried for job and higher studies in abroad and Hyderabad. He prepared for bank po as some others suggestion. He finished good industrial projects with many of upcoming students.
He went to Bangalore did a job there. And now he is comfortable with what he have... he helped many, helping many, going to help someone any time. And the smile is never fade on his face. It’s for share for all...


 Venkat’s motto is to "Help others”

 His role model                : Mother Theresa

Place of Birth                  :  Venkatram Puram,Mellacheruvu(MD),   Nalgonda(dt),TG.

Permanent Address       : +91-9637821587, 
H.No: 1-195, Dondapadu(vil),Mellacheruvu(MD),Nalgonda(dt),TG

Date of birth                   : 27-01-1988

His Words for youth      : Education is life.           






Thank you for spending your time to read this, please share with someone for inspiration about him: as "nothing is to stop you to reach your goal. Believe yourself and be happy ".          

Sunday, June 1, 2014

బంగారు తెలంగాణా

మన రాష్ట్రం, మన నాయకుడు, మన నేల, మన ఇల్లు, మన తల్లి. కొత్తగా వచిన్దికాదు, భిక్షం గా ఇచ్చిoది కాదు, ప్రాణాలను పణంగా పెట్టి బలిదానాల్తో ,వీర విప్లవ నేపధ్యం తో సాధించిన మన రాజ్యం స్వరాజ్యం ..(1969-2014) ఎన్నో ఏళ్ళుగా మూలుగుతున్న ఉద్యమానకి ప్రాణం పోసిన నాయకుడు కెసిఆర్ ,
ఉద్యమానికి ఉథమిచ్చిన గురువులు శ్రీ జైశంకర్ సార్ , జాఇంట్  ఆక్షన్ కమిటీ, ఒస్మనియ విద్యార్ధి గర్జన, అన్ని కల కలిసి , తెలంగాణా కళను నెరవేర్చిన రోజు జూన్ 2 2014. చరిత్రలో మరుపురాని మైలురాయి ఆ ఘట్టం ..
రాత్రికే పల్లె పల్లె ల నుండి హైదరాబాద్ ట్యాంక్ బండ్ కి చేరుకున్న జనసంద్రం , జయహో కేతనలతో అన్న కవి తెలంగాణా రాష్ట్ర జాతీయ గీత రచయిత ''అంధె శ్రీ" తో కలిసి గలమెత్తి పాడిన ఆ గీతం ఆకాశాన్ని అంటిన వేళా .. తార జువ్వలతో .. యువకుల కోలాహలంతో సంభరాలు అంబరాన్ని అన్టినై. గోల్కొండ , పెరదే గ్రౌండ్స్, రంగారెడ్డి జిల్లా కలెక్టరేట్ ,చార్మినార్ ఒక్కటేమిటి, అన్ని ప్రభుత్వ కార్యాలయాలు, హైదరాబాద్లోని అన్ని వీధులు , విధుత్ దీప కాంతులు విరజిమ్ముతూ నీరాజనలను అరిపించై .
అమరవీరుల స్తూపం వద్ద పోరులో ప్రాణ త్యాగం చేసి మనకు దేశాన్ని ఇచ్చి వీర మరణం పొందిన అమర వీరులకు జయహో అమరావీరులర అంటూ గలమేతి జై కొట్టిన తెలంగాణా గొంతుకు రాష్ట్రము అర్ధ రాత్రి వేల దధ్ధ రిల్లింది. 








అందరికి తెలిసిన ధైర్యశాలి మాటకారి కల్వ కుంట్ల చంద్ర శేకర్ రావు గారు పార్లమెంట్ పాలనతో తెలంగాణా రాస్త్రసదనలో తను వ్యవహరించిన తీరు చరిత్రకే ఆదర్శం.
మన కోసం పోరాడిన అన్నకి ముక్యమంత్రి పదవి అనేది చంద్రునికొక నూలు పోగు వంటిది .. అన్న కెసిఆర్ ,మరియు వారి కుటుంబ సబ్యులు ,జై శంకర్ సర్ ,కోదండ రామ్ సార్ , తెలంగాణా ప్రాణత్యాగం చేసిన ప్రతి విద్యర్ధి , ఉద్యోగి జ ఎ సి , ఉద్యమ గాయకులూ మరియు ప్రచారకర్తలు వీరి ఋణం మన తరతరాల భావిశాతు తీర్చుకోజాలదు..



                   అఖిల తెలంగాణా ప్రజల తరుపున మీకు మా శుభాభి వందనాలు మరియు కృతజ్ఞతలు..

జై తెలంగాణా జయహో తెలంగాణా             జోహార్ అమరావీరులకు జోహార్.         

భారతీయ జనతా పార్టీ తరుపున  కేవలం తొమ్మిది నెలల ప్రజా ప్రచారం తో అఖిల భారత ప్రజానీకం ఉహల్లొ చెరగని ముద్రగా నిలిచిన గుజరాత్ నాయకుడు, ఇప్పుడు  మన దేశాన్ని నడిపించే నాయకుడు, మన గౌరవ ప్రధాని శ్రీ నరేంద్ర మోడీ గారికి మా శుభాభి వందనాలు.. వారి జీవితం గురించి మన dhochai లో నాల్గు మాటలు ....


చిన్నతనం నుండే రాష్ట్రీయ సేవ సంగ్ యొక్క ప్రచారక్ గా ప్రాచుర్యం లో ఉన్న మోడీ గుజరాత్ కు పద్నల్గోవ ముక్యమంత్రి .. నిరుద్యోగ  యువతకు ఆశా జ్యోతి గా  నిలిచి ఎందరో యువత జీవితాల్లో వెలుగులు నింపిన మోడీ గారిని ఆ రాష్ట్ర ప్రజలు  మూడు సార్లు ముక్యమంత్రిగా గెలిపించారు.. చిన్నతనం లోనే వివాహం జరిగిన మోడ జీ  తొలుత తన సోదరునితో కలిసి టీ వ్యాపారం చేసిన విషయం విధిథమె. వారు ఇప్పటికి వస్త్ర ధారణలో ఆహార్యంలో తనదైన శైలి తో ఆదర్శంగా ఉన్నరు. లంచగొండితనం ఏర్లుగా పాకి మహావ్రుక్షం కాకముందే రoపపు పెట్టులా ఉద్భవించిన మోడీ ప్రభుత్వం ఈ సమాజంలో పురోగతి తెస్తుంది అని భారతీయులుగా  ఆశిస్తున్నాం ..


మోడిలో ఆదర్శ భావాలు కొన్ని :
నవీన టెక్నాలజీ ని ఎప్పుడూ  స్వాగతించడం .
అభివ్రిద్ది మంత్రం ..
నిరడంభర వస్త్రధారణ .
విద్యావంతుల సహాయ సలహాల ప్రోత్సాహం .

ఆశయాలు :
నిరుద్యోగ  నిర్మూలన.
నవ భరత్ నిర్మాణం .
ఆధునిక ప్రపంచికరన..


మోడీ మనో వాంచా సిధిరస్థు :  

  

Steve Jobs Commencement Speech to Stanford in 2005

Here is the full text of Steve Jobs' commencement speech to Stanford in 2005. It is one of the greatest reflections on life we've ever heard.its one of my favourite speech.  If you want to watch this speech video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YzvM6V5rBM

I am honoured to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
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." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have 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?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you 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.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumour. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitch-hiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.


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