they just don’t have time …
Recently I came across this video promoted by Google itself that showed Prof. Randy Pausch, who had been a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University giving out his “last lecture“. Prof. Pausch has been suffering with Pancreatic cancer and he this may have been his last lecture addressed to students before he dies. As it can be seen from Pausch’s web page, he has spent lot of his time and inherent energy in giving out public appearances to raise awareness of this disease and and funds for research upon it. Beside his extraordinary achievements that he’s made in his lifetime so far, despite of taking an early retirement and to go on vacation with family he’s not giving up to do more of it. He’s showing even more energy for utilizing all the time he has got. It seems that time is the only thing bothering him rather than death.
There is another well-known Pancreatic cancer victim who has been a bit fortunate than Prof. Pausch to get cured; but nowadays Steve Jobs is in news for again being into the danger zone of this fatal disease. But as way may see, iPhone is rocking the market, apple is ready for launching iphone nano in october. With all this happening apple is performing flawlessly good and is stable with its share pricing under Jobs’ leadership.
We don’t know about the truthfulness of “Jobs’ cancer has returned” thing, but what we do know that even when he is the suffering he’s still running his empire at it’s best. Now where do these guys get this energy from? Is it that they have some source of it inside them? Well they do, but is it just that?
I feel not. I feel they don’t really have time and they know it. And not just now, but they knew it from day one, that whatever they desire, their lifetime is the least of the duration they need, to achieve it. They are always on the deadline. The are always ready with the next step before time comes. They are so much focused towards their line of action and are so much occupied with their plans, they do not have time to insert any more appointments. Only things that bother them, are the sense of running out of time and lose of effectiveness. Life and Death are never in picture. And here is the key, They just don’t have the time for making good byes and condolence.
I don’t dare saying that Steve Jobs is going anywhere (dying is not the word to be used) , but the impact of such speculations upon an ordinary person is far different from what effect is seen on Jobs. And if he cannot get immune to this fatal disease, he has to have immunity to these speculations.
It’ll be unfair to say that Steve Jobs is different from Prof. Pausch for being an industry giant. They both carry the same fate. But they both are trying to form different meaning out of their own. Dying is just one of their many problems as it always was. We may learn from Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement addressing and Prof. Pausch’s Last Lecture that how positive their vision is towards the death. It’s not just because they’re energetic or excessively optimist. Major reason as I find is, they just don’t have time for being cautious.
These guys are running on a tight schedule, with no one knowing when it’s going to end. They are keeping complete faith in Karma, without imagining the end. They see no point in re-considering what they did in past, as they never can take time out from their future. They are on their missions. They are self-motivated. None can survive the death, but they have survived its side-effect. And that makes them special. That makes them what they are.
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