I Do Not Know Steve Jobs
October 6th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
But I do know him for his work. Who hasn’t?
I was texting with my 14-year old sister and asked her if she knew who Steve Jobs was.
This is what she said.
Yes. Apple. He’s Dead Now.
If a 14 year old girl knows about him, then probably every body beyond that age has either seen him, bought his products or talked about his death today.
It was supposed to be a normal morning. I got to work and my messengers were logged on. Yahoo displayed their news screen and I saw the headline.
Thinking it was some sort of figurative joke, I was skeptical until the little red headline prove otherwise.
I am not an Apple Fangirl. I do not have Macintosh products dating back to 1980s. But I immensely enjoyed the iPod, which I thought was sheer genius (and also to companies who tried to copy it off). I had a 5th generation iPod Classic , the first with video with Jack Sparrow, half-grin, half-smirk, on the box.
That iPod is still alive today. Along with other additions to the family. Yuki, N’s i3 aluminum alloy MBP, his iPod Touch that I’m using today, and our Scarlett, the iPad2. Steve Jobs was a man who always went not only to the next level, but to the levels beyond it.
He isn’t just marching to a different beat, he had a whole band behind him.
Now he’s dead. With cancer that I thought was cured, based from the transcript I read of his 2005 commencement speech. He knew of death, he welcomed death and he was prepared for it.
People may not know it, but there, tweets all over the world, facebook statuses and google + posts probably more than half or the majority is sent using Jobs’ mediums of communication and computing. We were all left with little sleek and shiny legacies of what he did.
He was 56. Too young. But he didn’t live in vain. That’s the most important thing. He woke up every single day thinking if this was his last day. And pushes everyday into something special.
When you do that as a normal human being, you get laughs all around. You’re too young, you’re too dramatic, you’re too foolish. But I do not share the dogma. I maybe foolish. I did many wrong things. But the end result, I am happy and fulfilled. I may not be making the next innovative creation, but for me, my life now, is happy and contented.
Thank you Steve Jobs! You touched the lives of many.
