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Many continue to look towards Steve Jobs for inspiration as the tech 'genius' offered keen wisdom throughout his life, but his cryptic final six words have continued to leave many puzzled.
Steve Jobs is an icon within the technology industry, as his contributions as founder of Apple are almost as iconic as his plain black turtleneck and thin-framed round glasses.
It has been over a decade since he sadly passed away after being diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, and his influence within both the tech and visual effects industry remains monumental to this day.
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However, many still struggle to comprehend his final six words as they remain cryptic, inspired, and perhaps meaningless all at the same time.
Shortly after his death, Jobs' sister Mona Simpson revealed, as reported by the Guardian, that his last words before passing were as follows: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
Simpson outlined that in his final moments, Jobs' "tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us."
It appears as if these words were uttered 'hours' before he actually passed away, after which he longingly gazed at the family members surrounding his hospital bed, which included his sister Patty, his children, and his life partner Laurene.
While seemingly unattached from anything, these words have caused many to seek deeper meaning in their cryptic nature, with some offering their own interpretations.
One particularly popular theory is that it was simply a reaction to receiving morphine, as one user on Reddit described: "My aunt's last words, after having just hit the button on the [morphine] pump in the hospital, were 'that feels good'."
"What did he see that so amazed him?" asks another commenter, to which one individual proposes the theory that this exaltation was down to "the realization that life wasn't all what it was cracked up to be," asserting that "his whole life work, his passions, his core motivation... all washed away by the simple fact that none of it matters."
If the obsession over his final words has proved anything though it's that Jobs' life work very much hasn't been washed away - especially as Apple remains the most valuable company in the world right now.
We'll, of course, never know what exactly Jobs was referring too but it's certainly fascinating to speculate on all these years later.
