On What is Success for me in 2026?

I think I grew up too fast. I don't know, I suppose I reached a level of maturity in terms of intellect early cos it's surreal at 21, this was my version of success.

I ended up winning best writing of the year for the same article I was referring to.

Remember that thing I mentioned about envy being a fuel for me? I'm telling you, you need to start seeing envy as a fuel.

I don't believe in it being sin and all of that bullshit. It's downright motivation for me.

I had more audacity at 20 and 21 years old than I did at 24 and 25. Well, thank God for previous writings cos I go back to it and I get myself right back.

I have mentioned I can't be more satisfied than I am daily. Nothing external can make me happier than I normally am. It's a state of being thanks to my younger self for reading Marcus Aurelius

That's not to say I don't feel bad some days. The way I was venting to Ada yesterday, you'd have thought that woe is me and all of that. But that's life. It's never going to be all fine and dandy. It's just life lif-ing as usual.

And I think mayhaps this perspective on what constitutes happiness may have made me somewhat lax with want for money.

Never going to say I don't want money. But every time I think of the need for it, it's just to accrue it in case of emergency (health or otherwise). It's even recent times I started thinking of the need for money for travel purposes.

But again, when I think of travel, I usually look at it in a business context. Like maybe I travel for a conference, and then take a few more days for sight seeing. The only material thing that's made me want money is perfume. And now I have calculated the economics of perfume production and how brand price stuff, and also leaving online channels that talk about perfume, I've found myself less and less in want of them.

Money is great. I do want to be wealthy. But my sort of indifference to it had prevented me from doing more things, taking more risks and every other thing a young adult is supposed to be doing at this age.

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