Empathy.

The heart conflagrates a flame brighter than the sun... The mind wanes as clarifying rays of knowledge divvy in interspersion. To feel is to be flesh; to blur the lines between reality and fantasy our most critical faculty, albeit deeprooted in the spurs of insanity. The ability to imagine is a dual-edged blade elongated by joy, passion, and inspiration, but sharpened just as well by sadness, apathy & leisure. It's our capacity of feel that keens its edges — to empathize and relate to one another as a people, on an individual level. Heart to heart. Like the rich rivulets of magic in the hands of the disciple of man, disciplined & stoic, chiseling beauty out of igneous, and abstracting solutions to life's greatest obstacles, challenging them indefinitely.

Success is the acclimation of joy & attainment. A psychedelic ecstasy, induced by doing something well or to completion, which only increases with the difficulty of the task. It is fundamentally concomitant to an overwhelming sense of reward, achievement. It holds the retrocognition to resonate with our past achievements, encourages our strengths, & validate these experiences. It kickstarts our drive to do more, to push past the odds, perhaps to progress & prevail even when the world turns a blind eye. It's almost unanimously agreeable transcending expectations feels damn good.

To make the naysayers hush; to make those supporting you along the journey proud of who you've become. It's a beautiful feeling that often gets undermined & swept into the aperture of failure — when all things cease to go your way, & life seems to dread your existence as much as those who look down upon you.

Sentimentality as it pertains to happiness is difficult, but integral; understanding others, where they swing along the pendulum on emotion, is the key to contextualizing their mentality.

Treating everyone with the level of respect you want to be treated with is imperative for a greater future, as, it keeps in mind those layers of context often missing from colloquial scenarios, the tides of everyday conversation. At the end of the day, we all want to succeed in this grand monopoly board we call life, where the rich parsimoniously seize their wealth & get richer, while the poor are mentally enslaved to the cyclical toils of life.

You truly never know what the next person is or has been going through.