Time waits for no one, so heed this wake-up call…
THESE are excerpts of the last words of Apple visionary Steve Jobs, 56, before he died.
“In the eyes of others my life has been a symbol of success. However, apart from work, I have little joy. Finally, my wealth is simply a fact to which I am accustomed. At this time, lying on the hospital bed and remembering my life, I realise that all the accolades and riches of which I was once so proud, have become insignificant with my imminent death. I can feel the breath of my approaching death looming over me. Only now do I understand that once you accumulate enough money for the rest of your life, you have to pursue objectives not related to wealth.”
Let the words of a man who died of poor health despite having the riches of the world, be a wakeup call to those who wish to take heed. In the end, don’t let your life be an accumulation of regrets. Hoarding your millions in the bank won’t help you when the “roll is called up yonder”. Simply put, you will never have a choice.
Steve Jobs was like any other human being – if you cut his veins, blood flowed out, not gold dust.
Every man should embrace terminism and make peace with God for a hassle-free journey into life thereafter. There is a biblical verse in the book of Ecclesiastes that says there’s a time to live and a time to die. And when the curtain falls, there is no place to hide – not your security-fortress home, not your bullet-proof car, not even a bunker. Like Steve Jobs, you will have many victories in your life until you finally meet something you can’t beat, when you can hear death’s footsteps…
Make peace with your family, friends and enemies now, not when you are struck with a terminal disease. Summoning them to a dying man’s bed to hear his confessions and begging for their forgiveness is a little too late. In time, anyone or anything that was something becomes nothing. Existence has no ultimate purpose except cessation.