Success

How do you know what you want, unless someone else has had it? How do you choose to pursue success, unless you believe it makes you happy?

Why is it that, I cannot be satisfied with any accolades, any amount of achievements.

For when I choose to label something I have done with satisfaction as ‘success’, it is then my heart says ‘no, more has to be done until that word can be said’.

How many days will it take, how many posts on social media about careers, relationships, and friends will it take until I say ‘I succeeded.’

Or will it be at the end of my life that I look back and still think ‘I could have succeeded more’.

Why are we driven to this idea of success, this forward-moving train of hustle, power, work, ambition…

Success is this mountain peak that has been famously talked about - it has streams, rivers, a gorgeous wildlife and an evening sunset that makes one stop and stare.

But as we are climbing up this mountain, we are thinking ‘is this the place?’, ‘do I need to climb up more?’, ‘what happens if I stay here?’, ‘but everybody else is climbing up!’

How do I stop and sit, when the whole world is telling me to keep going up?