holding tight to the wide open promise you felt in school, the lavish waste of youth, the adventures taken without hesitation, riding shotgun on mayhem, coming up for air at the last minute always on the edge of drowning in possibilities and now somehow here with wrinkles around your eyes
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately as well. For me success right now is about my personal growth. I work on that definition regularly. If it happens to come with any of the trappings of material success, so be it. But I’m at a stage where I have set standards of what is success to me in my day-to-day life, and measure it only against my own standards. Comparing ourselves to others is only useful when it inspires us to improve. Otherwise, you’re just judging yourself by others’ standards and that is not a recipe for happiness.
I personally am not competing with other's standards so much as the big vague hoax, the old "common knowledge" that we heard back in art school. That whole "work hard, the cream rises to the top" story. Well, that fairy tale....
holding tight to the wide open promise you felt in school, the lavish waste of youth, the adventures taken without hesitation, riding shotgun on mayhem, coming up for air at the last minute always on the edge of drowning in possibilities and now somehow here with wrinkles around your eyes
If Mariam were alive, I would send this passage to her and she would heart it
Ah, Lesley. I cannot imagine a kinder thing to say. This is why I show up, every Monday for more than ten years now, for moments like this. Thank you.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately as well. For me success right now is about my personal growth. I work on that definition regularly. If it happens to come with any of the trappings of material success, so be it. But I’m at a stage where I have set standards of what is success to me in my day-to-day life, and measure it only against my own standards. Comparing ourselves to others is only useful when it inspires us to improve. Otherwise, you’re just judging yourself by others’ standards and that is not a recipe for happiness.
Well said, Morgen.
I personally am not competing with other's standards so much as the big vague hoax, the old "common knowledge" that we heard back in art school. That whole "work hard, the cream rises to the top" story. Well, that fairy tale....
https://youtu.be/vD0h-Nb5qhs?si=zbU5aQC3BqKDt5jR
Eeeeeeexactly.
So much resonance here.
thanks for saying that Dave. Legacy is one thing, but still "huge" - this much smaller than that.