ohikendoit.: November 2013

During his famous Stanford commencement address, Jobs said the following:

"You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path."

I often look at the people who have achieved certain status quo, values, or lifestyle and wonder how did they connect the dots to reach the place. At the end of those thoughts, it comes down to reassuring myself that I'm one of them, young and in progress.

Knowing that dots only make sense looking backwards but not forwards, it raises the question of what little things I do and what little decisions I make everyday. Most days of the year are unremarkable, but it's hard to deny that each days are the dots that we are laying in our life. This is really hard.