Make Them Count

1955-2011

"Your time is limited, so don't 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 others' opinions 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 become.

Everything else is secondary."

Steve Jobs

There's nothing fair about dying- nothing can be done to prevent it, nobody has managed to escape it, nothing helps fill the void it leaves behind, it is a true emptiness.

Even the passing of those I don't know personally still manages to emotionally affect me. Steve Jobs' losing his fight to cancer caused these thoughts today. He mustered the bravery and confidence to set a precedence for technology as a whole. He pioneered and revolutionized how we listen to music, how we interact with media, and each other on a constant basis. It feels unfair to lose someone so valuable, so brilliant and so bright, so young. Steve was 56.

We can only learn from the lesson his death provides- to value every day we have, because no matter your circumstance, the fact is, each one that comes is a gift, not an expectation.

Make them count.

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."