I'm the one person in the world that doesn't think that Steve Jobs is any more important than anyone else. I feel compassion for his family and close friends. Loss is horrible. But, I will just never understand why it is such a big deal when some one well-known dies. Do we think money or celebrity somehow makes famous people above dying? We have to break in to national network programming and inform the entire country at the same time--really. He'd been dying for years. Everyone close to him had seen him, cared for him and knew his fate.
It's not news that I blame technology for the lack of civility we have today--the lack of personal contact. I know everyone else thinks technology helps us connect more. I don't buy that. There's concern that can only be transferred in person. There's a level of class that is found in a hand-written note.
Case in point, Keith came home and told me what he'd heard about the biography coming out later this month.
"Just a few weeks before his death, Steve Jobs revealed in an interview that he agreed to an authorized biography on his life so that his children could know why he wasn't always there for them."Really, the dying man tells the writer why he wasn't there for his kids--not his kids?
In the grand scheme of things, Steve Jobs life here on earth wasn't any more important than the starving baby in Ethiopia. No, I don't think the baby's not important. I think they are the same.
Yeah, I guess I'm a little warped.
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