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Life Lessons From A Steve Jobs Letter
Reflecting on all that is important…
‘Health is like money. We never realize its true value until we lose it.’ Josh Billings
We live in a materialistic world where our status is determined more by the size of our home, or our blue-chip shares, the cars we drive, and the clothes we wear.
But these are just possessions, shiny objects that delude us into the the belief that they will provide security, afford us some protection, yet at the end of the day they are, or will become, a source of our anxieties.
Yet there’s a tendency to value them more, sometimes at the expense of our health.
The other day I came across this piece of writing by Steve Jobs, who died a billionaire, from a rare type of cancer. There’s some dispute about when he wrote it, but that is irrelevant.
Jobs was fifty-six years old when he died, of pancreatic cancer, a disease where the treatment outcome is poor. All the money and power he had enjoyed, weren’t enough to rescue him from an early demise.
“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In some others’ eyes, my life is the epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, my wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to. At this moment, lying on my bed and…
