Hating and Loving Steve at the same time = Normal

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Hating and Loving Steve at the same time = Normal

I am reading a book that I may not finish. I hate not finishing something. Worse yet this book was a gift from my wife at Christmas time – so I feel that I have to read it. She bought with our hard earned money so I have to finish it.

Grrrrr. The book has made me mad. It has made want to slam something. I don’t think I have had this kind of reaction from any book for a long time.

BTW it is a true story. It is a great biography that was requested by the main character Steve – so it might be closer to an autobiography.

But yet I am totally fascinated with the book and its main characters. And especially the main character Steve.

Reading this story has brought back huge memories for myself. And I believe that most Baby Boomers could relate. Most of what is written about happened in our time.

Personally, with my computer technician and programmer background, it is way over the top with the detail that the author provides. This story is so all encompassing that it blows me away.

This story deeply affected me while I knew nothing about what was happening in Steve’s world.

Before I say more I need to say that Steve is as close to being a “God Like” figure in real life as any one that I can ever have pointed to. He is all powerful and acted that way in real life.

I hate Steve.. yet I revere Steve. I am in an awestruck way about him yet he reviles everything in me. Steve is an idiot – a complete and total idiot – but yet the guy was a genius.

The way that Steve treated his friends first and then later his family was disgusting. Before I got one quarter of the way through the book I hated Steve and everything about him. But as I kept going and Steve’s life unfurled I was drawn deeper and deeper into the character of Steve. I hated him even more but was enthralled with the story of this obsessive, compulsive man that destroyed so many live and yet helped so many as well.

Through all of the idiot’s living and life he became a multi-billionaire over and over again.

And the thing that he did for this world and the people in it has changed them all. What he did has likely had an effect on you as well.

Any guesses who the Steve is?

His last name is Jobs. Yep Steve Jobs – the founder of the Apple Computer company and founder of iPad and iEverything.

Steve Jobs also was deeply connected with Pixar the movie company that made “Toy Story” and dozens of other movies that we all have loved. My grandkids have grown up on movies that Steve had his hand in or on.

Now saying that I hate Steve is a little over the top for me as a Minister that is supposed to love everyone. Right? Well kind of right. I maybe should say that I despise the guy… but that is also not quite right either.

How do you say that the life that you have witnessed for so many years, that touched your own life over and over again, is one that revolts you? I wanted so bad to have all the gadgets that he designed and produced making millions on all my wants and wishes… yet his lifestyle stinks or at least I should say STUNK!

He was basically an irresponsible parent. He got a girl pregnant and could care less about that girl.. for the rest of his life. The baby that he had would not be in his life until he was older… but that relationship wasn’t too good from that time on.

His bigger family was at Apple and Pixar and the places that he worked at. These men and women suffered abuse in all sorts of ways by one ignorant man that was a genius in every way.

This complicated life and the intricate story that is written about him is what makes me keep going as I read. Only a third left to read now. The history is more recent – up to last year before he died in October 2011. I know most of this part from the earlier things that I had been reading.

I can’t say that I take my hat off to you Steve. I would rather keep it on and move away from where you lived and worked. Yet I can say I am totally enamored by what your genius has brought into our world.

And Steve… I hate to say this… I want so much to buy an iPad2. Good Lord I need one… to be just like other ministers that all have one of these amazing tools.

But then Steve, that was the way it was way back when I started working everyone wanted the stuff that you dreamed up… even all my Holy Minister friends that bought the Apple and Mac Computers.

Yep. Walter Isaacson has written an amazing story entitled “Steve Jobs” – but I hate it at the same time I love it. It is my life too.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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