journaling a bit...so there i was waiting for my IC appt late last week. time to kill, so i was recalling that it was the anniversary of Steve Jobs passing. that led me back to the text of the speech he gave at Stanford some years ago. it was prophetic given my sitch and where i'm at with it process wise that i read what he said. for myself and i suspect many others now that we are post-BD, our lives have seemingly been turned upside down and we are groping along for forward direction/purpose...there i was sitting waiting for an IC appt and just before i went in for it, much of what i was needing i found in the words of his speech. for those of you who might be grasping for some direction going forward from where you are, i highly encourage you to seek out what he wrote and consider it. some of it of course is the typical "graduation challenge" verbiage that all such speeches contain, but i think if you consider your sitch in relation to his words much of it will have relevance and perhaps some comfort to you. there is much wisdom in the words of a man who while wildly successful at the time of his death, dealt with many challenges/adversities in life even before he was born.
at the start of another week here's the quote from his speech which most had impact on me and my sitch:
"Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. 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."
