Looking Ahead
Personal Legend
So things have settled down after several days of social media commiserating over the passing of Steve Jobs. When he stepped down at Apple I knew he wasn’t well, but I didn’t expect him to lose his life this quickly. All in all, however you assess Jobs in hindsight, it is obvious from the outpouring online that he affected many people just being the person he was...living his personal legend: realizing his full potential in his life.
Mourning Jobs’ death reminds me of so many other very public deaths in my lifetime: Unitas, Shakur, John Paul II, Cobain, McAuliffe, Lennon, Piaget, Picasso, Hoover, De Gaulle, King, RFK, Disney, Churchill, JFK. They come from all walks of life. And no matter the field in which they made their contribution, society stops to mark the moment and take account of a life that made a difference.
For me personally, public deaths are a different animal than our private, personal loss of loved