I- Living

In class we briefly spoke about Steve Jobs and his legacy. An important theme that I picked up from this conversation in class and the article “ Apple is a new religion, and Steve Jobs  was its high priest”, found athttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apple-is-a-new-religion-and-steve-jobs-was-its-high-priest/2011/10/07/gIQAjYlgTL_story.html,  was the relationship between religion and culture. Throughout this conversation Professor Smith had said  “Don’t fall into someone’s religion but create your own” while he was elaborating on the products made by Steve Jobs and the Apple corporation. This quote has stayed with me and really helped me understand religion. I am slowly beginning to understand religion as a belief and way of life that somebody follows in order to feel some sort of accomplishment with life or to help facilitate a person’s life. A mesh and blur with reality, culture, and religion may be in many aspects the way of life for many people. Why do people follow religions that were established years ago when the culture of those times were nowhere near that of today’s culture. Are people using religion to find purpose in life, are they using it to define themselves, or are they just lost and want to understand themselves? It seems that the idea and principles of religions have been lost in translation and throughout time. I feel that creating your own religion or creating your own path and principles to govern your life is what people should consider as religion. Why would you follow in someone else’s footsteps or rules to govern your life when you can easily appease your cravings by applying certain codes and regulations, made up by and for you,  to your own life. Religions may simply be theories of how to live and prosper but why not make up your own theory so that you can dance to the beat of your own drum. Steve Jobs and his products have helped many individuals to customize their life the way they want to. By allowing individuals to create their own lives with these products it allowed for a sort of personal spirituality.