To me success means nothing.
That’s because of it’s inherent need for a context.
Success is just a word and it can mean pretty much whatever you please.
The thing about the word success and the burden that comes with it is in the most simple word definable as: “pain”.
Pain is not a bad thing, in it of itself.
Pain is actually part of the reason why all living things can evolve.
If there were no pain there would be no adaptation.
I’m actually not scared of pain, I’m more scared of lack of emotion, or apathy.
Apathy is as bad as the purgatory (in the Family Guy Style) the only big difference is that apathy in this life equals loss of time and that generally causes loss of opportunities, which then brings out pain.
Ahhhh, I finally got this down.
You can do whatever you want, you can try as hard as you want, but in the end we all share that same “Pain/Pleasure” dynamic. Even apathy brings pain, therefore it must be negative.
Well that’s not completely true as pain is actually the most common motivator for action that there is.
Even when you project pain in the future, hence there’s no “real” emotion but just a projected one, you have created an extremely strong deterrent that will make you try your hardest to avoid such projected pain (although most likely only imaginary pain).
I believe us Humans cannot make estimates on what regards emotions, we are scared of things that when done mean almost nothing and think that meaningless things that once achieved are completely dischargeable are actually vital.
We suck when it comes down to predicting our emotional future.
And in the end we learn plenty from our experience although I feel like we also tend to forget extremely fast those things that we don’t practice very often.
In the end pain will motivate toward action, pleasure will motivate toward action too. So? I guess I don’t know.
I think that being positive no matter the outcome is the most logical way to act, yet emotions are not logic hence they cannot be controlled. Also if you were to act like a perfect ubermensch you could still be killed by a car, or passive smoking or just random shit.
That made me laugh 😉