People do not die for us immediately,
but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true
immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same
way as when they were alive. It is as though they were travelling
abroad. ~Marcel Proust
Today, as the world awoke the death of a
man who lived to give so many of us the passion for technology, we, although in
mourning, believe exactly in the above mentioned quote. It’s hard to imagine
that a man like Steve Jobs would be wiped off from our memories soon. Except
for a few, none of us can claim to know one of the most famous American CEOs
ever personally. And yet, the way the world has reacted to loss is self
explanatory: He was beyond the “i”, he was beyond Apple, he was more than just
a man on a stage in black turtleneck giving a speech.
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Steve was the sort of a man you connected
to naturally despite seeing him only on the screen. He was the sort of a man
who made us all believe that technology, no matter how small or big, is a
powerful force. He gave you goosebumps when he talked with such honesty about
it. Physically fragile and mentally the sort of momentum you can never break,
Jobs inspired, drove, and delivered everytime the world got a little bored of
the existing technology.
Men like him are few. He will be deeply
missed.
