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WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE FOREVER? Sanath Dasanayaka

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This is a highly motivational speech done by my self at the Speechcraft program of Toastmasters International at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. Hope, you will find something significant on this document. This speech goes on to discuss about what you can do to enhance your personal lives. To do such a speech, I was inspired by reading Robin Sharma's several books. So, thank you very much Robin.

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO

LIVE FOREVER? Sanath Dasanayaka

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CC3 speech delivered by Sanath Dasanayaka at Toastmasters International Speechcraft Program at Sabaragamuwa University

of Sri Lanka

© 2014 by Sanath Dasanayaka

The writer of this takes no credits for the cited quotations.

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Would you like to live forever?

But, is it about living for 100 years on this Earth?

Immortality doesn’t come with the years you live for. It’s all about living in

minds and hearts of generations who follow you. It’s the way to cheat your

death. You are able to find your immortality through leading and showing up

yourself.

You can have a lasting impact on human lives by being a great champion at

work or a great leader in your community. It is how, you can live forever.

Greatness comes with the beginning of something that doesn’t end with you.

So, stop worrying about your death. Care more about your life. Care about

what you create today and what contribution you will make today.

Remember,

“There is no situation that is not transformable and there is no one who is

helpless.”

Mel Gibson’s character in Braveheart says, “Every one of us die, but so few

of us really live.”

So, find what you are living for and the higher purpose of your life.

Remember people with great concepts, like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa,

Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. Are they really dead? They died.

But concepts they created enlighten the world even today. They will never

die since great concepts are immortal.

Here, there are several tips for living forever.

Do your part.

What are you doing to make a new or a better world? Do not blame politicians

or those who around you. Do not blame your parents and your background.

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Blaming doesn’t yield anything but disgust and terrible feelings. You are here

for a reason. Then, do your part completely. It doesn’t matter who you are

and where you come from. All of us should do something for this world that is

why all of us are unique.

Mother Teresa said it better than I ever could. “If each one of us cleans only

our own doorstep the whole world would be clean.

All great people have something in common. That is they do their part

perfectly. Great scientist, Albert Einstein gave his fully contribution to the

globe and Mahatma Gandhi won freedom for his nation.

Then, what is your contribution? We all die. That is true. That is why we

should make something unique for us. It is for people to remember us.

Once a wise man said, “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter

to me...... going to bed saying we have done something wonderful..... That is

matter to me.

Be a real human.

You can be Buddhist, Islam or Christian and you can be Sinhalese, Muslim,

Tamil or British. But finally, we all are human beings. Remember, holiness is

in right action. Goodness is in mind and heart. By what you decide to do

every day, you will be a good man or not. So, be kind to people and be

grateful to them. Do what is right. Not what is popular. People will remember

you. Not all of them. But ones who know the value of what you are doing.

Remember, Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the USA did what was right,

not what was popular. He eradicated slavery and gave his nation rebirth. But

he made thousands of enemies by doing what is right. They even tried to kill

him several times. Failed. Finally, they murdered him. Does any one of you

know the murderer of Abraham Lincoln? No one knows.

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But, when we hear the name, Abraham Lincoln, we know who he was and

what he did. Farther of a newly built nation.

Hope, all of you know the story of William Wallace, a great hero who fought

for the freedom of his nation from the British. When he was captured and

executed by the British he shouted the word “Freedom.” That word was the

root cause for a great boom in his nation against the British.

Then, we do not live forever. But think of what you are going to leave in this

world for people to remember us. If you create something unique, you will

live in the hearts and minds of thousands forever.