I think the most interesting conversation my friends and I had tonight revolved around why some people make it and why some don't...is it blind luck...is it hard work?
What does it take to be successful?
And it could be in relationships, your career...whatever's most important...
Most people just think success revolves around how wealthy you are...I tend to believe that it's doing what you love the most or just being who you really are...
Anyway, the following lyric, which is from a band you've never heard of but you'd probably enjoy, will probably tell you how I feel about the whole issue...about people in general...
"Some wise up and rise up
Some will stay down and dumb"
--Chasing Ghosts, The Rattlehounds
I guess I'm just tired of people being dumb and blissfully unaware and still getting ahead in life...here's hoping that the wise will indeed rise up!
A man can dream, can't he? ;)
The Rattlehounds
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I think success in life is enjoying what you do for a living and just generally being happy with what you have rather than yearning for something you can't have.
Some people spend their lives never satisfied with their life. They look at others and think they have it so much better than they do. Meantime their life is passing them by. What's the good in that?
Also, what's the point in making a pile of money if you are miserable or always working and don't have the time to enjoy it?
For all my moaning about my job, i enjoy what i do, which is a lot more than most can say. I consider myself very lucky and successful indeed, a good job i enjoy, a wonderful, kind man, my family, a roof over my head, plenty to eat, honestly what more could i want?
I know that sounded terminally mushy but it's the truth. In the grand scheme of things i have a good life, nothing real to complain about. I think some people just love to complain, nothing is ever good enough - meantime they miss their life.
Karen
Living in the vicinity of people who are extremely wealthy, i can say with certainty that they DO have an easier time of life. Yes, they generally aren't happier than the rest of us, but they also don't have to worry about how the heck they're gonna pay the rent, which improves life measurably. Unfortunately, at least for the people i know, the reason they have so much money in the first place is that they have deep-seated worries and neuroses that make enjoying their wealth almost impossible. So does it even out? Hard to tell. Perhaps i need a large cash grant to study the effect of money on my own life...
Having said that, i am very thankful that i worked my ass off for many years to get the job that i really wanted. It sucked - it was not my bliss to finish my schooling - but it was a means to a happy ending for me. So i would suggest that there's a balance of planning, hard work and bliss that need to come together to make at least my life the way i hoped it would be. The problem with the dedication it takes to achieve great things is that it's nearly impossible to tell the difference between what's just out of reach and what's completely out of the question. Of my cohort of fellow students in Graduate School, only a handful are now working as college instructors (as we had all hoped.) For the others, does that mean that teaching wasn't their bliss? Or that it was just something that they weren't meant to do? Or just dumb luck? That would be the scary one - to quote Calvin about the world:
"Either it's the world is mean or it's arbitrary, and either way I've got the heebie-jeebies."
Karen,
I do agree with you to some extent. I know that I don't necessarily look at others and say that they have it better than me. I've never cared about money (though it's nice when you don't have to worry about rent, etc)... just want to love what I do!
Until then, I can complain! ;)
Roxy,
Had I the cash, I would easily splurge for that grant...lol. Until then, I can only say that agree with Calvin ("heebie jeebies", lol).
Sometimes I wonder what people were meant to do (especially me)...as much as I usually can't stand people in general, they continue to fascinate me...maybe I should have gone into psychiatry! ;)
I can also quote a favorite individual strip called Frank & Ernest where one sullenly says to the other "Either I'm not living up to my potential or I am!"
Again...on that one, not sure what scares ME the most...lol!
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