great speech...too bad the audio mix was complete shit and I could only make out bits & pieces because the goddamn music track was drowning out the speaker's voice.

/first-world problems

My prediction..........PAAAIIN

No one thought you would.

Just a bunch of mumbo jumbo...

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/i...b487ead7/l.jpg

Amazing speech.

I could only take about 3 minutes of his droning. What a shitty outlook on life. Not surprised he offed himself. We're supposed to take advice from this guy why?

That was beautiful.

Just have Dennis Leary come out and say "Life Sucks, Get A ****ing Helmet".
Speech over.

Thank God I have a great life.

DFW was one of my personal heroes until he offed himself. I don't look up to people who kill themselves, but in his defense, he suffered from extreme clinical depression, not garden variety "I'm sad." Guy was a freakinggenius though, but that's probably one of the reasons he could never escape his pain completely.

Why is this going viral now? The speech is years old. They even printed it in book form after he died.

It's graduation season.

Here's his obit in the NY Times. Sounds like the classic troubled genius. I've lost a couple friends to suicide from mental health issues. It's awful. It usually happens to very gifted people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/bo...lace.html?_r=0

wait people are considering advice on how to have a positive outlook from a guy who killed himself?

Did he not take his own advice, or is this the result of his "positive" outlook?

I always wait for traffic to die down before going grocery shopping, so I guess I dont relate that much to idea that you must shop during rush hour


Some things can certainly be mundane, but at the same time being a little bored at times and making money is better than being broke but not having to adhere to a certain schedule