I remember before in my more nonconformist days, I used to worry about such stuff, conventional success. If honest (albeit reluctantly), I still do contemplate conventional success, yet there is a profound difference, I can think on it without the sinister undertones. Previously, my reflection upon success, predominately my own success made me feel awkward, embarrassed and inferior. Though, only in front of myself because there was no-one else around. How absurd. At least if I felt inferior in front of another there might exist a valid reason but to feel inferior by oneself, right there is some powerful conditioning. For a human to have to look in the mirror and feel ashamed of their own reflection simply because they failed the What 21 highly …show more content…
Mastery is not simply sitting in a cave meditating; the learning comes through events, with the best types frequently the bad ones. Often I see the new agers spilling their antedotes on life, attending elaborate retreats to talk spiritual and flaunt their yoga achievements but watch them in real life situations, because this is where the scrutinising begins. The testing is in the grit tray not at the candy counter. We are tested when it feels uncomfortable, in real interactions and with real people. Consequently, this is why so-called bad experiences can help us develop and evolve more than a pamphlet or sitting around a camp fire can because bad experiences make us stop and think. Although, part of our collective problem is we are not taught to value negative experiences in life but instead focus upon how to accumulate, graduate and conjugate (marry), with no emphasis on introspection because time spent in reflection does not appear a priority anymore. Under the circumstances, instead we have swarms (swathys / swaves) of people who can barely keep up the pace to live their lives, aside from time to sit and think and when we do have a few moments spare, we are bombarded with a multitude of distractions to keep us amused, as well as dumb. In summary, the art of thinking and contemplation has been lost, although not by me, I was ready to inspect everything on my plate, I was just not keen on Sue’s latest
We are taught to appreciate people far apart from ourselves success, but when it comes to those around us, we are constantly in a battle to prove ourselves better than them. What better feeling than to be the smartest out of the
A person shouldn’t measure their success based on what they own, but based on their accomplishments. Those who never truly succeed, take pride in what they own, rather than what they’ve done. Emily Dickinson wrote in Success is Counted Sweetest, “Success is counted sweetest, by those who never succeed.” In this poem Dickinson describes what success really is, and those why are proud of their success, never truly achieved it. Today, success doesn’t matter at all.
Like I mentioned earlier, people compare each other depending on their success. Those who are lower on the economic scale will be viewed lesser than those who are high up on it. That's honestly just how it is, the people who do not have as much success will be compared to those who have a lot of success. That is why people feel threatened by those around them who are successful. Like at least no one is going to compare me to a Kardashian, but they could with any other girl in this school.
Hi, my name’s Donovan. I’m 17 years old and graduated this year with honors. I was raised with Christian values in mind, and attended a Methodist school. I was raised in the Christian faith yet I find myself, as with some of my friends who were raised in the same conditions, we seem to be growing farther away from our upbringing as we age. I find myself simply not understanding as time goes by, a complete polar opposite from the song ‘Farther Along’.
At the beginning of my sophomore year, August 2015, I fractured my left ankle. My second season of cross country had just begun. The whole team had a Saturday practice at Atlanta Memorial Park. We came to this park for a time trial. Not being able to run was going to be a challenge for me.
This drive for success and comparing oneself to another begins very early in life, especially if you have brothers and sisters, or even cousins. Even if you are close to the other children in your family, striving for success for each of you, is like a secret battle. This battle is typically based on who is more favored by parents or grandparents, whoever is the most successful will be the favorite. For those who don't have close family members to compete with or compare to, their battle for success begins when they enter school, and it's based on the same concept. Students tend to compare themselves to one another to see who is more successful, who has better grades, who is prettier, who is better at sports, who has more friends, who do the teachers like more.
I tend to keep to myself and not gloat about any of my successes. For example, some teenagers after they finally obtain their AP testing scores, like to brag about what they received all over social media. Yet, even though I received a very good score, didn’t feel any need to hold that over my peers. Even now, I feel uncomfortable, as if I’m boasting for
Goal Number One I didn’t know it yet, but the way I viewed the game of lacrosse was about to change drastically. It was a normal day for me. I was in eighth grade, and I was getting ready for school.
Jimmiela Bruessard 9th Honors Mrs.Smith Tonight? I stared into the dark sky, taking a deep breath. “Tonight...tonight.”
THESIS: As a product of society’s “equal” meritocracy, we must find a scale for our actions by comparing our successes and failures to others, creating status anxiety, resulting in our idea of success being relative to our peer’s success. We base our own self worth and value too much on the outside influences and how others view us. We can no longer look in the mirror and see ourselves as we are, we unconsciously compare ourselves to what is “perfect” is based on ideals from our friends, family, and the media. We are constantly being presented with the image of perfection and the steps and rules needed to achieve it.
Success is perspectival. I used to think I was successful because I had a six-figure job my friends and family could be proud of. I thought the house with too many bedrooms would make me look even more successful, as would the luxury car, the tailored suit, the expensive watch, the big screen TV, and all the trappings of the material world. I got it all, and I sure as hell didn’t feel successful. Instead, I felt
There I was on top of my house floating down the river. This was no normal river this river felt like the inside of my freezer. It was cold and unforgiving kind of like my cat that was with me. Not only were we floating down the river it was raining cats and dogs. Good thing I grabbed my tent.
Driving up to Summerville Georgia for a weekend adventure, I look out the window to a wonderland of colored leaves. It is beautiful; it is Fall. My family and I were renting a cabin. When we arrived we went outside for some exploring, then headed to Walmart to purchase food for lunch. At Walmart my Mother told my Father, siblings and me to get microwave meals.
After a long and stressful day of school I’m finally rewarded with a bus ride. A long one in fact. One hour of napping is the reward I had been waiting for. But even though it’s a good time for a nap, people are unfortunately loud. However, that doesn't stop me from having a good hour rest, it’s been a long day anyway.
It is perfectly normal to see how other people might be doing better in life more than you, it is actually pretty healthy, because you could actually use that as a some form of motivation. However, some people suffer from what people call is as an unrealistic inadequacy throughout the person's entire life. It is most commonly known as having inferiority complex. It is basically when someone feels inferior in any type of way in almost every situation. TWO TYPES OF INFERIORITY •