ok so i am morally obligated to put this down after i just posted about getting rich.
i've been thinking about it a lot lately, rich people i mean. i wonder if they're actually happy, or if it really is lonely at the top of the financial mountain. i, for the purpose of this post, am going to assume that it would be lonely, especially if you had to work pretty much all your life to get there. (this assumes a lot of other things, too, like whether or not you like your work, and what your actual job is, stuff like that.)
anyways, would you feel that your life had been successful if you were rich as hell but lonely as a mo'fo?
how would you, then, measure success? (that is if you hypothetically answered "no" to the previous question)
this is particularly what i've been thinking a lot about:
whether or not i become as rich as i dream of being, i'm going to measure my success in life by the people i touch and (hopefully) the positive differences i make in their lives.
check back in 17 years for a mid-life crisis update.
ps. by "touch" i mean in spiritual, intellectual, or other non-physically threatening sense, and not in that weird "Rannel" sense.
(sorry, Rannel, too easy)
Monday, March 17, 2008
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i think the sad thing about rich people is that they are never truly comfortable with where they are in life and with what they have. they can't get comfortable because they are always comparing themselves to other rich people.
i guess this is true for a lot of people, because i know i feel that kind of pressure sometimes too.
but when a lot of your life is based on being rich and having nice shit and doing expensive things, i think it's a lot easier to feel that way.
re: how to measure success. don't measure yourself against others. measure yourself against the person you have been over the course of your life. i don't think this method works in all instances, but maybe its something to think about
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