I was expecting a steep hill, strewn with boulders and pitfalls, followed by a steep cliff with sharp rocks at the bottom… followed by a ladder leading up and out so you can climb the next steep hill…
Mike in CT
February 15, 2016 7:03 pm
I knew it..I knew it…I have not been wrong all these years..It [success] is a tortuous route to glory..Mike
AC
February 15, 2016 7:34 pm
The ‘what it really looks like’ part should have a few dozen concrete walls that you slam into, bureaucrats repeatedly picking your pocket, and a horde of H1B visa workers trying to knife you and steal your paycheck while a few congressmen and corporate CEOs hold you down, while illegal aliens steal stuff from your house as part of Bernie Sanders ‘wealth redistribution’ plan.
Sometimes I think that mere survival now equates to success.
SSS
February 15, 2016 8:08 pm
Exactly.
No successful person hasn’t run into blind alleys in life. I included. Lots of curve balls and strikes for every successful person. No exceptions.
Francis Marion
February 15, 2016 8:54 pm
At first success seems like this:
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With a side of this:
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Followed by a moment of this:
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At which point you pause and finally realize success is really this:
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And that it is somewhat in the eye of this:
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At which point you get comfortable with this:
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Realizing finally that the old adage that the journey is more important than the destination is likely more than just a simple cliche.
Next project please…
Stucky
February 15, 2016 9:15 pm
Very nice, Francis! You should consider getting into the Pictorial Essay business.
Francis Marion
February 15, 2016 9:30 pm
Stucky,
Thanks but the rumour is the pay is not so good :-). I probably whittle away more of my time here than I ought to anyways. Can’t say I don’t have fun mind you…
Bea Lever
February 15, 2016 11:36 pm
That was a good one Francis.
I have been working at being a success for forty three years, I’m no failure but hardly a roaring success. Just as I was romping in “high cotton” with my latest business, Oreo was selected and I have never worked harder to tread water in my life.
Francis Marion
February 16, 2016 12:16 pm
Bea,
I’m getting more biblical/philosophical about these things as I get older. I look at most of my successes as being a gift from God – less attributed to my own abilities and more attributed to his grace. I also look at my failures and shortcomings in much the same way. Each is a success in its own right so long as I am willing to try and look at each as an opportunity to learn something and grow. True failure is an inability to learn and a refusal to see a lesson in any of it. As long as I can avoid those pitfalls then this brief time here in this world is not wasted. In my mind that is what success is really all about.
That’s no shit!
I was expecting a steep hill, strewn with boulders and pitfalls, followed by a steep cliff with sharp rocks at the bottom… followed by a ladder leading up and out so you can climb the next steep hill…
I knew it..I knew it…I have not been wrong all these years..It [success] is a tortuous route to glory..Mike
The ‘what it really looks like’ part should have a few dozen concrete walls that you slam into, bureaucrats repeatedly picking your pocket, and a horde of H1B visa workers trying to knife you and steal your paycheck while a few congressmen and corporate CEOs hold you down, while illegal aliens steal stuff from your house as part of Bernie Sanders ‘wealth redistribution’ plan.
Sometimes I think that mere survival now equates to success.
Exactly.
No successful person hasn’t run into blind alleys in life. I included. Lots of curve balls and strikes for every successful person. No exceptions.
At first success seems like this:
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With a side of this:
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Followed by a moment of this:
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At which point you pause and finally realize success is really this:
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And that it is somewhat in the eye of this:
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[/img]
At which point you get comfortable with this:
[img
[/img]
Realizing finally that the old adage that the journey is more important than the destination is likely more than just a simple cliche.
Next project please…
Very nice, Francis! You should consider getting into the Pictorial Essay business.
Stucky,
Thanks but the rumour is the pay is not so good :-). I probably whittle away more of my time here than I ought to anyways. Can’t say I don’t have fun mind you…
That was a good one Francis.
I have been working at being a success for forty three years, I’m no failure but hardly a roaring success. Just as I was romping in “high cotton” with my latest business, Oreo was selected and I have never worked harder to tread water in my life.
Bea,
I’m getting more biblical/philosophical about these things as I get older. I look at most of my successes as being a gift from God – less attributed to my own abilities and more attributed to his grace. I also look at my failures and shortcomings in much the same way. Each is a success in its own right so long as I am willing to try and look at each as an opportunity to learn something and grow. True failure is an inability to learn and a refusal to see a lesson in any of it. As long as I can avoid those pitfalls then this brief time here in this world is not wasted. In my mind that is what success is really all about.