If You Don't Have The Courage To Do It Alone, You Don't Really Have The Courage At All

Last night I went and performed at Poetry and a Beverage. This is the piece I read:

If You Live Each Day As If It Was Your Last, Someday You’ll Most Certainly Be Right

A Found Poem for Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, don’t waste it

living someone else’s life.

You’ve got to find what you love.

You have to trust in

something—your gut, destiny,

life, karma, whatever.

You’ll know when you find it.

Don’t settle.

Don’t let the noise of

other’s opinions drown out

your own inner voice.

There is no reason not to

follow your heart.

Every morning I ask myself

“If today were the last day

 of my life, would I want to do

what I am about to do today?”

Whenever the answer has been

“No” for too many days in a

row, I know I need to

change something.

Remembering that you

are going to die is the best

way I know to avoid

the trap of thinking you

have something to lose.

All external expectations,

all pride, all fear of

embarrassment or failure,

just fall in the face of death,

leaving only what is important.

Death is the destination we all share.

No one has ever escaped it.

Right now the new is you,

but someday not too long from now,

you will gradually become the old

and be cleared away.

Have the courage to follow

your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know

what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

So keep looking until you find it.

It just gets better and better

as the years roll on.