"Your time is limited so do not waste it living someone else's life.Don't be trapped by Dogma-which is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown out your own inner voice.And most important,have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to be.Everthing else is secondary".Steve Jobs
There comes a tide in the lives of mice and men when some rise up over others and stand as a beacon to what each one of us wants to be.I see around me a lot of brave men and women who struggle in their daily lifes,who innovate to keep their children and their spouses happy,who find new ways of giving joy......yet....we only remember a few like a Mother Teresa,Steve Jobs,Nelson Mandela etc
Its important to have role models and equally important to understand what they mean to us and what they want to say.For me my teacher in standard IX-X,Br.Kyle,an Irishman,remains the closest thing to god on earth that I have known.His insights into my character almost 23 years after i studied under him continues to amaze me and the subtle way he understood and encouraged my love for books and the arts and sports and turned me from a shy,introvert kid into a confident man has its roots and genesis in 1988.
I am sure each one of us has such examples of people who have touched our life and made a difference...we must hold onto those memories and spread the positives around.The selfishness that pervades our cities is self defeating,instead of leaving a better legacy for our children what we succeed in doing is to teach them to be more selfish,repressive and dogmatic.
There is a Steve Jobs in all of us just that we are too afraid of leaving the safety of the herd to chase our dreams.Afraid of failing.Afraid of ridicule.Afraid of being too different?Yet on FB i find people i shall not name,whose middle name is "conformity",paying verbose tribute to the Guru!
Walk in the rain,jump of a mountain,glide down a waterfall......Its just this One Life!!
