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 is 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 is quite true. Steve Jobs
But he knew that his time would come, as the words above attest. And that knowledge must have given him much less fear, and more hope, given him the strength, even on days when he was feeling weak and frail, to continue breathing and living for another day.
That is true courage, true spirit: to live despite knowing you are at the mercy of death.
Too few people do that, and yet Jobs not only did that, but even in his final years he continued to surprise and lead the world with products that show there is no limit to continual development and improvement.
And it is the same with people: we can always improve ourselves, develop our potentials and human spirit, and invest fully in what we do with however much time we have in this world.
An apple fell, but so many are still remaining.
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