... it's been on my mind lately. mainly due to the fact of my current unemployment. It got me thinking a lot about the future & if i'll be "successful" in life. and i decided that i don't like the definition we've put on the word success as a society. in our generation we automatically think of material ways to define success- money, a big house, multiple cars, the latest fashion, the latest technology, etc.
so then today, after another long day of luckless job hunting, i turned on the tv (rare occurence, but i was in a bad mood)... what i saw was fate. i started watching some old re-runs of LA ink & on the show a girl came into the shop wanting to get a tattoo on her arm. a tattoo of this quote by emerson:
" To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I may (still) be jobless and moneyless, but i need to remember to look at the smaller things and realize that I am successful in those regards. and i really do think that those kinds of achievemnts in life are more valuable/will go further than the materialistic forms of success.
