It’s so funny how I completely moved on in like two hours over possibly one of the greatest losses to tech-kind Steve Jobs. But I guess, a lot of it is more or less his own doing. He wanted people to move on, to let go and I damn well know that he wouldn’t appreciate even a single one of us iMourning, no matter how well-coined the pun maybe.
Here I am, glued to the season premiere of the eighth season of House M.D. I don’t miss the man, and I hell as well don’t miss any Apple products. As course and selfish that may have sounded, I still understand that even though I never interacted with the legend, never bought any of his products, never actually looked at an iPhone longingly and probably would’ve only bought any of those, to upgrade my social image (I mean I love my Zebronics mp3 player, which again still is a sad chinese iPod rip-off), I still know that I ‘ll miss the sleek white doing the rounds on other well to do, classy people. His life is the stuff that could make billions at the box office, his words- pure facebook quote stuff. With Pixar, Apple and so many other ideas that propelled not only him, but even his legendary rival Bill Gates, Steve Jobs is all around us. Another Michael Jackson in the pulling off, so eulogized that Mr. Jobs just pulled his greatest marketing stunt yet.
So in this age, even with nuts like me who google House M.D. seconds after posting a “I miss you Mr. Jobs” , it goes to show that short-lived however that moment of mourning may be, millions still paused. And that is maybe not something Steve Jobs would’ve liked a lot if he were present to witness it, but it’s the greatest farewell to the man who stayed hungry, who stayed foolish and still was termed the pioneer of our time.
So here goes to you Steve, the man behind the ‘I’, the one who brought the world into our hands and still gave us that touch of individualism, all 6 billion of us, can now be in a crowd of a million and still have our voice.
I have to get back to my episode now. I love Hugh Laurie. There you go, I said it.
