My five years old daughter was sitting behind me in the car as I was driving and she sank into her thoughts and than said:
You know something mommy, I´ll tell you what!
If we do all our homework, we will be free!
It cought my attention…
It´simple,
clear,
deep,
and true.
Success is usually our ultimate thermometer to measure our worthiness in what we do. Success is important to us and it defines in great strokes who or what we are. Since we know that our time is limited, it gets us nervous and the tension drives us to chase success - at any cost.
We look up at successful people, we envy them and we whish we were successful too. Or we´re not, than we want our children to become it.
Success nowadays usually is measured in money and wealth. You are rich if You are successful as You count as successful if You are rich.
There is one little detail though that people seem to ignore… Success and happiness are not the same thing. In fact many successful people are unhappy, because in order to succeed they have to give up upon a great deal of things. The truth is that our chasing for success has driven us blind and crazy.
Blind because we stop seeing what really matters, we stop taking part in other things, we work day and night to reach an imaginary goal when we think we´re going to be fulfilled and most of all when other people will look up at us as we look up at the successful ones now.
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
‘Nothing, I just helped him cry’
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