What is success? it is easy to associate success with how much material you have. Its understandable to think that way, thats the trend. It is so much about what you have. money rules the world..no doubt. If you don't have money, almost like nothing happens for you. But is it so much about money? So is it really true that success is about how much money you have? The Bible says money answereth all things and money is good, yet money is not everything. I use to fear being broke and the panic of being without money is just pathetic but the last time i was broke i survived, i didn't die, i just worried my self to death because of what money meant to me....Money with all its goodness is certainly not everything. Who you are is not about what you have because if your personality is tied so much to what you have, the job you do, you will be crushed and perhaps, be nobody when its suddenly taken from you. Be so tied to that kind of life is an empty way to live. It can form part of your personality and some people will relate with you on that ground but you have to understand that who you are should transcend beyond all that. When they are no longer there, you will loose the crowd, people will vanish and things can be lonely and hard but if your personality is not tied, you be who you are, regardless. The society is driven by that thought and we are swayed into valuing people based on what they have. We worship people with what they have so much that they feel a sense of invincibility but when its suddenly taken away, people just become desperate to hold onto that life even to the last straw at all cost......its all because they have no life outside that. They only define who they are with all that stuffs and image.
Isn't Life more than that? really....are we so much about the materials that surrounds us? What if its suddenly taken? why do we cling so much to materials? Once people don't have what we think to be wealth, once they do not have what we define as swagger or once they do not have at all, we think we are more successful, we continually compare and compete in a race, run ourselves out to have, we are never satisfied. we suddenly begin having an exaggerated sense of ourselves.... even people who say they do not have pride, do! The average Black man does, thats why little success, wealth, power becomes our weakness. You see this in our classrooms, in our offices, on TV, on the streets, in places of worship and even in our football. Our personality is much tied to things that fade, it drives us, it defines us and its what we live for.
some people say, when you think this way it is probably a way to justify having a low life or a sign of envy....is that really true? when you have a great life, you sure do not have to explain to people and besides, so things in life have practical proofs. One of them is the fact that money is not everything and if you don't have a strong sense of who you are, what you want, you will be lost.
Live your best life, be all you can and never settle less and being broke is really bad but who you are should not be so much about what you have. Being all you, does not mean you should be mediocre. If you live so much for having the materials, it will be a case of vanity not the essence of life. You miss the important thing when you do not know what success really is, by the time you are 50 years old, if you are still alive, things will begin to change and then you really know, Money isn't everything!
I am an advocate for the essentials of life....things of eternal value, not like its an easy way to be because vanity screams everywhere. Nature, Laughter, Friendship, Family, conscience: the little miracles of everyday living, the sunshine, finding time to sit down after all the hustling, having time for family, pursuing things with eternal rewards....all these things that cost nothing! We are often so busy pursuing what success is to many of us, we miss out the important moments in our lives, we just hustle and hustle chasing the wind. I have not said, people should be lazy in fact, you have to work hard to succeed but then as you run around never loose sight of what is really important. In the end, Life is short, when a man dies, it ends, whatever the predicament, whatever the success, people will talk but you see the world will move on, memories will fade with time. Focus on what is really important, as you hustle, wanting the best, enjoying at every step of the way, as you go for the impossible, as you believe in yourself to take that step.....focus on the essence, never the vanities!
