There are certain things in life you can plan for. You plan for the holidays, Christmas, New Years, get together’s and parties. This time of year is very busy getting together with everyone you know and love.
Keeping family traditions alive like baking your favorite Christmas cookies with your kids. Sing along Christmas carols, finding and decorating the perfect Christmas tree and doing holiday gift shopping.
But, what about those unexpected things you haven’t planned for? Someone getting sick, going into the hospital or even the loss of a loved one.
These things are often unexpected and happen at the busiest time of the year. It is not easy to have a sick family member or a death.
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Things are not often planned in life. Death is a cycle of life that we should all embrace. Fortunately, cards are a great way to express our deepest sympathies.
” Steven Jobs, An Untimely Departure ”
Steven Jobs died this past October. He was widely recognized as ” a charismatic power of the personal computer age.” He achieved notoriety for several things throughout life. He was co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.and later became a member of the board of directors of Walt Disney in 2006 after Pixar was acquisition-ed by Disney. He started at Apple in 1974 partnered with Steve Wozniak to direct the aesthetic design of its personal computer. In the early eighties his vision of a “graphical user interface” led to the Apple Lisa and then to the Macintosh. He was diagnosed as having pancreatic cancer for which he received a liver transplant in 2009 but lost “the struggle with the disease” as he grew more “gaunt and frail.”
Steven Jobs was one of those rare individuals whose zeal for life and enthusiasm for what he did transcended his rather inauspicious beginnings. He was born to two unwed university students of Arabic descent and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. His adoptive parents moved from San Francisco to Mountain View , CA when Steve was five. Paul Jobs was a machinist by trade and taught his son “rudimentary electronics and how to work with hands.” He went to junior high and high school in Cupertino, CA and later frequented lectures at Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, CA. It was there he was hired and met Steve Wozniak while the both were summer employees. His formal education seemed to be overshadowed by Jobs’ urgency to find himself or his niche. He enrolled in Reed College after high school graduation and dropped out two semesters later. He traveled to India in 1974 in search of spiritual enlightenment. During the time he experimented with LSD and returned as a Zen Buddhist. He attributed his “counter culture” thinking as the impetus for his innovative thought. How did most people view him, how did he view himself.
Unlike many entertainment luminaries Steven Jobs didn’t connect with people through the conventional medium of stage, set, and screen. He connected with his colleagues, electronics, design elements and those he sought to serve. His non professional and professional relationships hinged on those elements. When Jobs first returned from India he eeked out a deal to create circuit board for Atari that enlisted his friend Wozniak that led to a $700 pay off, a fraction of what they were to receive since the design was not assembly line friendly. The relationship would lead to the founding of Apple computer in 1976 in Job’s parent’s garage. The rest of the story is a cross between fact and speculation depending on your perspective. He was always was known as “persuasive and charismatic” but was described by some employees as “erratic and temper mental.” Declining sales in 1984 led to a management rift where Apple’s Board of Directors sided with John Sculley and ousted him from the company in 1985.
In 1985 he founded Next Computers with $ 7 million and a year later was running out of money. He attracted investment interest from Ross Perot who invested heavily in the company. Next designs were directed towards “financial, scientific and academic” professionals. They were his second phase of experiments with innovative technologies that have characterized the majority of his career. Of course some were more successful than others. Perhaps that was the biggest thing to set Steve Jobs apart from his competition, from other thinkers. He took stock in the future and in some cases mandated future needs. He acquired the computer graphics division of Lucas Films in 1986 and was credited as executive producer of Toy Story in 1995. He was the major share holder of the company until it was sold to Disney in 2006.
Upon his return to Apple in 1997 his efforts continued to ” transform the way people interact with technology” and will continue to do so in the future. The iPad, iPhone and the “Mac all in one computer, IPod music player and iTunes all in one digital music store are what saved then Apple Computers, now simply Apple from closing. It’s startling to find Apple produced $7.1 billion in revenue in 1997 and $65.2 billion as of last. Though Jobs lost weight in 2008, took a six month medical leave in 2009 to receive a liver transplant and another before stepping down as CEO once again his ideas, philosophy and policy have continued to influence the company’s successes and failures. It is now the largest retailer of music, has”helped popularize computer-animated films” and been a continuing contributing factor for how we use the internet and technology influences people in their every day lives: information, TV, movies, books and so many other forms of the threads that make up the blanket of our culture. He died from losing his battle with pancreatic cancer, even after the liver transplant in 2009 sparked continued weight loss, absence from work, questions of his competence and finally his handing over the reigns. At his death Steve Jobs was estimated to be worth over $ 7.4 billion at his death. Is this a professional colleague worthy of a remembrance, a simple Funeral Note?
“Brief and powerless is man’s life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.”
Writer: Bertrand Russell
I interestingly found this as I was browsing the internet but it is so true…
“All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman’s heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another. Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal.”
I think life is something that you should expect to be filled with trials. Unfortunate circumstances arise and one must adapt in order to survive. Being a survivor and striving to muster up strength is what defines a human being. As one of the authors said, You can love me or hate me I swear it won’t make me or break me..
As a devout Christian, Sympathy is crucial channel for expressing the trials and pain that are inflicted upon us. Whenever there is a death in the community, sympathy allows individuals to truly connect with another individual at a very high-level. At the end, you just have to hope for the best and let the healing process begin.
One of my closest friends just lost her husband from a violent gang shooting. They were amazing individuals who raised their kids and live a great lifestyle. Bad things happens to good people, which is the essence of life. It is so shocking to see how she seems to manage a smile even after this tragedy. The worst part was to break news to their kids, who are so naive and innocent.
“At the end of 2009, a lot of dark things happened in my life. I lost my job and we had floods in Chennai. I was going through a lot of stress in my work. At that point of time, I discovered my love for music and poetry as I began to compile variations of my work. It really turned my life from doing worst things such as drugs and alcohol.
Mike Wallace’s Famous Last Interview
Death is not kind. It quickly covers what’s left of an individual’s light abruptly, almost like a final curtain call. What was their life quickly closes and is no more. There is an empty space, a place where light once shown that has grown silent but for some, a select few their light transcends their death, their memories become timeless. Mike Wallace died on April 7th the night before Easter Sunday. His greaterst work surely will be resurrected in many ways for many years to come.
Mike Wallace was a firecracker whose life connected with many, inspired more and captured the attention of an American audience for over sixty-years. The journalist, game show host, actor and media personality metamorphosized many times through out his sixty-year-career. He interviewed “a wide range of newsmakers” over his legendary career. He was known for his terse and brazen interview style. He will best be remembered for his role as a 60 minutes correspondent. He entered into America’s living rooms every Sunday and engaged public figures, entertainers, actors, actresses, mogules and anyone else who’d captured the public eye.
Wallace’s personality gave his job life, made his interviews controversial, ground breaking and worth remembering. It inspired countless imitators in the media and related fields. They followed the standard in his life and in tune created a standard to follow. He spent 23 seasons with 60 minutes and won 21 Emmy Awards and the Paul White Award Winner in 1991. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame the same year.
Mike Walace’s story was the quintessential American success story. He was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and attended the University of Michigan. He landed a job at WOOD Radio in Grand Rapids and moved to Detroit, MI for an announcer’s job a year later. In 1940 he moved to Chicago to work freelance radio. Wallace enlisted in 1943, served as a communications officer in WW II and returned home to Chicago after being discharged in 1946.
Upon his return he “announced for radio action shows” like Ned Jordan, Secret Agent, Sky King, The Green Hornet and wrestling for Tavern Pale Beer. Throughout his career in the late 40s he was known for his “unique dialogue routines” and “comedic wit.” He lent his talents to everything from commercials to acting in police dramas like stand by your crime in 1949 and hosted a number of game shows in the 50s: The Big Surprise, Whose the Boss? Who Buys?, and To Tell The Truth. In 1963 he returned to full time news in an earlier version of CBS This Morning H’ed been making a living from appearing in commericials. Of course the stint with the pre- early show led to 60 minutes, another stage of the roller coaster ride that would keep him just as much in the news as the people he interviewed. From Louis Farrakhan, General Westmoreland to Barbara Streisand, Tina Turner and Hillary Swank and too many more to mention. Mr. Wallace formally retired from 2008 and had made guest appearances since. He died at Waverley Care Center in New Canaan, CT surrounded by family . He’d been a resident for the past three years. He is still very much alive in the manner he delivered and rendered an interview. Sometimes iexceptional performances in any field, on any part of life’s stage do exactly that and for that he will be remembered and it is worth your effort to send a Sympathy Note to refresh your memory and commemorate his own
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