In my previous blog, I have reflected the wonderful speech made by Steve Jobs in 2005 at Stanford University graduation. Now that the man who had touched practically all the lives of the people on this planet had passed, there are many reflections of the lessons of how Steve lived a life that is full and well-lived.
One striking part of that speech was his passionate words addressed to his audience.
Don't settle.
There are far so many things in life that sought to compromise who we are, who we want to be, who we can be. And there are so many instances as well that we have been compelled to do so. To settle. To compromise. To simply find in our hearts to accept whatever, whoever was presented in our paths. We have believed that this is it for us. That the one true thing we have always dream of having will never be.
Don't settle. Not really an easy task to achieve when all we want is to be happy in what we do, on who we are with, on how everything is done in our lives. We aim for comfort, we aim to have what we can NOW instead of heartbreaks, of failures, of pain, of disappointments.
We only have the guts to know when to finally say YES when we are lucky enough to find that one true thing we passionately love.
Until then, until the very voice of ourselves are telling us to GO for it, that THIS IS IT, DO NOT SETTLE.
"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle" - (Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011)
later.
