To have lived like Steve Jobs

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. - Steve Jobs

The speech Steve Jobs gave to a graduating batch of students at Stanford University still rings so true, inspirationally and beautifully. Indeed, the mark of a Great Man.

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 other's 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

The truth is can we be brave enough to lead the live we want to seek? There is also a fear of finally having the courage to do what you really love and realising that you aren't good at it. An arrow straight to the heart. But, if one never takes that first step out of that door, one will be eternally shut in. Coasting through life, living at the shallow edges - kind of like the safe part of the sea our parents always made us stay at. Don't go too close to the waves. Don't let yourself get carried away.

But how I miss it! That wild abandonment and the fresh salty taste of the sea. How the salt gets in your eyes and it hurts. But it's alright, you just shed a few tears and you are all ready to jump back in again. And, you come up, in your clothes, terribly unsuited for the ocean, and you just lie on the sand, with sand in all kinds of uncomfortable places (haha!) and let the sun and the wind do its magic and hug you dry.

We did it so often, jumping into the sea in our school uniforms, that the ends of my long hair got so dry. But again it was alright, I just cut it short and felt as free as ever.

Life is not about reaching an end point. In a way, it's not about achieving something. Life, sometimes, is about breathing. And when you forget to breath, or when you fail to realise you've been holding your breath, holding it all in, for such a long time... oh my dear, you have been forgetting to live. But it's alright, you just shed a few tears and you are all ready to jump back in again. Yes, you shed a few tears and you are all ready to jump back in again.