r H Y nolite
d is for Design.Sunday, December 19, 2010
This is why I admire Steve Jobs.
It is not because he can foresee the future of technology, nor is it because he creates products that have changed the world. It definitely is also not because he is rich, powerful, charming or smart.
It is because he lives his life with a purpose. It is the way he lives his life, like he knows why he is here for, and it is also the way he is able to look beyond what people think about him, what people say about him. It is the way he is able to tell everybody to suck it, because he is going to do things his way, no matter what.
It is so powerful.
So many people I see around me, seem like they have already given up on their lives. At the age of 24. Fresh out of university, they immediately give up their dreams and aspirations and exchange it for one thing and one thing only: money.
It is all about the money now isn't it? Work hard get a bigger pay so you can buy a bigger car, a bigger house, bigger breasts and a bigger ego.
And now that I'm standing at this exact time and place in my own life, it seems so fucking easy to say "fuck it." To give up, to resign yourself to a life of slaving for somebody else or something else you don't really care about. Cheat yourself into thinking that more money equals better life.
It seems so easy to just settle. Settle for something less than what you had expected. Settle for a life manufactured by society, marketed by friends and family to be the perfect life and bought by yourself to delude yourself into thinking that what you got was the best deal you could find.
What is the best deal? How do you define the best deal? More money? More fame?
Sometimes I envy the people who are so comfortable with their lives. Comfortable money, comfortable home, comfortable car, comfortable job. So snug inside their comfort zones and content to live their lives not knowing what could have been.
What could have been? How could it have been? How do I know? How do you know?
Sometimes I envy the people who live around an anchor in their lives. Religion, family, money. It's like they know what the fuck is going on and they are so sure of themselves.
Do they really? How do you know?
I'm just a rock floating in space now. Directionless, because wherever I'm going its up or down depending on how you look at it. What sucks the most is I don't know that one thing I live for. Maybe i do, but if that's the case then it just sucks more because I don't have the guts to follow it.
Fuck.
And how do you know whether or not the choices you make in life were the correct ones? There's no way of finding out. And that sucks too.
Help. I'm floating away.
It is not because he can foresee the future of technology, nor is it because he creates products that have changed the world. It definitely is also not because he is rich, powerful, charming or smart.
It is because he lives his life with a purpose. It is the way he lives his life, like he knows why he is here for, and it is also the way he is able to look beyond what people think about him, what people say about him. It is the way he is able to tell everybody to suck it, because he is going to do things his way, no matter what.
It is so powerful.
So many people I see around me, seem like they have already given up on their lives. At the age of 24. Fresh out of university, they immediately give up their dreams and aspirations and exchange it for one thing and one thing only: money.
It is all about the money now isn't it? Work hard get a bigger pay so you can buy a bigger car, a bigger house, bigger breasts and a bigger ego.
And now that I'm standing at this exact time and place in my own life, it seems so fucking easy to say "fuck it." To give up, to resign yourself to a life of slaving for somebody else or something else you don't really care about. Cheat yourself into thinking that more money equals better life.
It seems so easy to just settle. Settle for something less than what you had expected. Settle for a life manufactured by society, marketed by friends and family to be the perfect life and bought by yourself to delude yourself into thinking that what you got was the best deal you could find.
What is the best deal? How do you define the best deal? More money? More fame?
Sometimes I envy the people who are so comfortable with their lives. Comfortable money, comfortable home, comfortable car, comfortable job. So snug inside their comfort zones and content to live their lives not knowing what could have been.
What could have been? How could it have been? How do I know? How do you know?
Sometimes I envy the people who live around an anchor in their lives. Religion, family, money. It's like they know what the fuck is going on and they are so sure of themselves.
Do they really? How do you know?
I'm just a rock floating in space now. Directionless, because wherever I'm going its up or down depending on how you look at it. What sucks the most is I don't know that one thing I live for. Maybe i do, but if that's the case then it just sucks more because I don't have the guts to follow it.
Fuck.
And how do you know whether or not the choices you make in life were the correct ones? There's no way of finding out. And that sucks too.
Help. I'm floating away.
