We cannot work every single moment of every day. It’s not healthy and will cause us to spiral in the void of perfectionism.

Celebrate today. Right now.

Even if the world seems to be against you, take a moment to stand up and shout as loud as you can, revolt against the void, entropy, and even our own mortality. Celebrate your life now. Celebrate who you are now. Embrace and love those around you like you never have before.

Back in 2007 Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science, gave a talk called the "Last Lecture." He had three to six months to live due to cancer and doctors told him that there wasn’t anything they could do to save him.

In his lecture, he said: "We can't change how the cards we’re dealt, just how we play the hand."

Instead of giving up, he decided to use his remaining months to celebrate his life and to spread his message across the country. Oprah interviewed him on her TV show and his message spread far and wide.

On July 25, 2008, Randy Pausch passed away. From diagnosis to his death, he lived around 22 months. In that time, he wrote The Last Lecture with a co-author that became a New York Times bestseller and spread his inspirational message around the world.

We can celebrate our victories—today.

Take some time and watch Pausch’s last lecture and see the amazing good that he did knowing that he could not beat cancer. Though we may not want to address it, we’re all going to pass on from this Earth. What we do today and the days to come will become our legacy. But we don’t have to worry about all of that right now.

Take a break, pick a small victory, and celebrate. You deserve it.

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