I’m not the typical blogger that follows current events. It’s not only that I don’t blog about current events, for the most part, I don’t even follow current events. This becomes very apparent about two minutes after meeting me in person. However, I couldn’t resist jumping on this event because it actually strikes quite close to home. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, died yesterday, the day after my birthday and ironically the day the final piece of my full Mac set up, the new Thunderbolt monitor, arrives at my house. By the time I’m reading about his death (I’ll shamefully admit – via Facebook), I’m sitting in front of a beautifully streamline screen that makes my formally “big” flat screen TV seem small again. Everything in the Mac world is slim, light, and minimal. One day, I would like my entire world to be that way – minimal – a far cry from how my desk looks today. By the way – this is where the blogging magic happens! I even tidied up for the photo : )
Onto the serious stuff, upon his death, folks started posting quotes from his 2005 Stanford commencement speech. Even though I am feeling overwhelmed with my life and work, I stop everything I’m doing to watch this 15 minutes of pure inspiration. Because I feel that there are only three degrees of separation between me and Kevin Bacon and the rest of the world, this quote inspires me most:
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So 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.
Lately, more and more dots have been connecting in my life. Like the quote says, you can’t connect them in advance, you can only trust at some time, they will all connect. When Steve Jobs was making his lifelong inspirational speech in 2005, I was busy myself – taking photos (surprise surprise)! These photos were taken on December 1, 2005 – a day like any other – at a place like any other – Panera Bread to be exact – with a friend like any other. But roll the clock forward almost six years and the dots are finally connecting in a really unexpected but surprisingly fun filled way. Here’s to a fixed distance SLR lens that I coveted but never got. Maybe some things are really worth the wait…
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