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It seems that every time I sit down to write for this place it is to say that I am back after a long hiatus. At one point, I used to ensure I wrote here at least once every two days, if not daily. But over the last year I have slipped somewhat significantly. I do sit and think about my writing and my need to write but I never seem to get round to it. I don’t know if it is laziness or just the hesitation to express what is inside. I’m thinking it is the latter, although working all day long and then coming home to try and write isn’t easy. At the end of the day you just want to collapse and escape from the world.

Today, the big news is that Steve Jobs has died. For those of you that do not know of him, he is the founder of Apple and the visionary behind all their work over the last few decades. He is deemed by many to be a genius and the leader behind the revolutionary Macs, iPods and iPhones. Even though he was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, his death still came as a surprise to many. Twitter was, and still is, alive with tweets about him. Apple products have grown immensely in popularity in the last decade or so.

Whatever we think of him, what can we learn from this? It just goes to show that no matter how clever or how rich you are, death can visit you at any time. Whether in a high or low patch in life, the one certainty we have is death. Therefore we, myself included, have to learn how to overlook these issues which overtake our lives and cloud the bigger things in life (and death).

Moving on, I finished the first draft of my book 18 months ago. I still haven’t revised it. I need to fix up. Time is just going by and waiting for no man.