RIP Steve Jobs. the visionary. the genius.

Quote from Steve Jobs

i was in the train on my way to work when i read the piece of news that announced that Steve Job has passed away yesterday, it came as a shock. i knew he was battling with cancer. his cancer had recurred. but the news still came too sudden. i felt my eyes misting. i do not know him personally and i cldnt explain my sudden surge of emotions. i just knew i felt sad. felt sorry. at the age of 56, he shld be enjoying retirement soon. basking from the sales from his APPLE products. especially with the newly launched iphone 4S the day before. what will happen to the APPLE market now?

my years of studies in RMIT doing my business degree, i’ve learnt much abt him. much abt his creativity. much of the strategies that he had used to market APPLE products. he was really brilliant. a visionary and a genius said by many others. in almost all of the 6 semesters of school for my business course, i have either him or APPLE Inc in my notes, textbooks, references, assignments for at least 1 module per semester. one strategic management he used is the blue ocean tactic. (ok i shan’t go into the books). 

i have grown to respect him. to admire him. Mr Steve Jobs, may you rest in peace. 

Below is a video clip of him speaking at Stanford Commencement in 2005. where he speaks of death.

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”  and yeah, the quote is damn right. no one can ever escape from the same phenomenon. not even the genius who has created so many wonderful products with the technology advancement. i have met a girl who was next to me in the hospital in the same ward last year. i just had my operation and she was there because of her headache from brain cancer. she was blind then. but that was also caused by the cancer. she was the same age as me. looking at her, i’ve considered myself to be relatively luckier. at least the tumor they found was non-cancerous. a simple surgery could have cured me. but who wld have guess? it wasnt cleanly removed. but at least, i am still kicking and alive. she was not as fortunate. the last i heard, she had passed away. death has robbed another young life away. it does not match Job’s quote of clearing out the old. Jobs ain’t very old either. why him? do all geniuses die young?  

Quoting from him, “No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. and yet, death is a destination on one has ever escaped. and that is as it shld be. cos death is the single best invention of life becuz it clears out the old and make way for the new. So have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. they somehow alr know what you truly wants to become. the rest are secondary.” 

my heart tells me teaching is the career for me. but why moe no want me? 😦 with my condition like this, will i have the chance to do what i want to do? i am afraid too. where one day, death comes to take me away. given’s life unpredictability, i dont even dare t think abt it. pls, pls, let me live heathily. let me be able to fulfil whatever i need to fulfil. hopefully, my heart and intuition will guide the way cuz i really have no idea now. at times, i feel really lost.

but nonetheless, i will take his piece of advice.