This blog post by Andy Crouch has been going around and since we live in and around Apple pretty much 24/7 I thought I’d reblog it here to see if you guys had any thoughts.
What’s going to happen when Steve Jobs leaves “permanently”? Think Apple will survive (barely, a lot, more?) or is something entirely different going to come about? He quotes the famous Standford address:
No one wants to die.
Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.
And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you.
But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true.
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 others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
From Steve’s perspective this might sound true but from a Christian one it sounds quite hopeless (and pointless).
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