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Agree or Disagree with Steve Jobs

In “You’ve got to find what you love” Steve Jobs states his close death experience with cancer. Steve Jobs states: “Death us very likely the single best invention of life. It is Life’s change agent.”, and I have to agree with his argument. My near death experience wasn’t brought to my attention until I was in the hospital, holding my side, puking up my lungs, having a doctor tell me I had an appendices along with gallstones and my appendix had almost erupted which would have killed me.
My near death experience is different from Jobs but knowing could have been near changes what you think and believe. Your life is limited, and you never know what will happen. You hear the quote ‘I’ve your life, not someone else’. This quote means to live how you want not by a uniform, or not by someone else’s thoughts and views. Be real to who you are and what you like. “No one wants to die; And yet death is the destination we all share.” This statement reminds me of a quote I’ve been told before ‘ we all live to die’, people act like death pops out in the opening but in reality its always been there but it’s your choice to see death what it really is or for what you want it to bee. Let Death be a reason to actually live and see the things you want in life, not a reason to hold yourself back. I agree with Steve Jobs argument; ‘Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is Life’s change agent.”

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