Steve Jobs is being portrayed as an exceptional person, for having charted his own course,  for having led a business that put iMacs on your desks, iPods around your necks, iPhones in your pockets and iPads in your hands.  Steve Jobs was an exceptional person.  I am not Steve Jobs.  Neither are you.  But he was what he was and that’s the way some people are.  Should we feel badly about ourselves, that we are not accomplishing the goals Steve Jobs mentioned in his Stanford University commencement address?  Should we feel somehow unfulfilled if in our striving for goodness we have considered not only our own aspirations, but those of our spouse, our parents, our children?  And have even made compromises?

I happen to have not one Apple gadget in my house.  I’d rather have a phone call from my daughter than a 99-cent download or some cute app.  That’s me, not very exceptional.