Lately, I have noticed some new and interesting things happening around me... I say 'lately,' but I mean over the last few years.
In a recent conversation with my grandmother, she mentioned that I have fought for everything that I have ever gotten in life. I fought so hard to be able to attend a certain college just because I believed that a degree would be my ticket toward getting a decent job one day. I fought to find a job within a community whose few openings did not have any desire to hire me, and even said that they did not "hire [my] kind" there.
So recently, I realized that I have worked so hard for what seems to others to be so very little. Or is it? I have a husband who cares for me deeply. I have friends who stay up late nights and early mornings to insure that I arrive home safely so that I can go visit my husband when he is unable to return home for a few days. Meanwhile, my loving, but overworked parents and my grandmother are snug in their beds. Because I have not been able to find a job, I have had the time to cultivate these relationships. I just have to stop amid the crazy madness of the rushed world around me and see that they are there.
People put so much stock in their personal definitions of success. Unfortunately, so many allow their definitions of success to guide their opinions of others. I think that if more people were open to other ideas concerning success, there may not be much difference, but it certainly would take the pressure off of so many of the young people out there today...
How do you define success and why?
I've thought about this a lot. It's a tough place to be when you don't fit into the mold others want you to fit in. The good thing for you is that you don't seem to let others define you or make you feel inferior. You do what you enjoy and with an open heart:)
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