I’m finding that I’m really stumped to answer this prompt. Not that I don’t know successful people, it’s just I don’t know which avenue of success I want to travel down.
Success for me isn’t having a thriving and prosperous career. It’s more like having life figured out, knowing and taking care of what’s important. When the evilness of comparing, complaining and criticizing don’t enter your daily thoughts, that’s success.
Knowing who you are and being happy with what you have is also success, in my opinion.
Celebrities are far from successful people in my eyes, unless they’re smart enough to know when to quit. If they don’t lower themselves to making commercials to sell phones or heartburn medication and use their spare time instead to support or even start a charity, then they’ve been successful.
If you can grow a garden that sustains you and yours, that’s success right there.
I ran into a lady the other day in the grocery store, she’s my Dad’s age and like me she left the farm and moved way up north to Thompson at a young age and is still here. Her parents lived quite close to my parents and their farm yard and house still exist but her parents have been gone for years.
Anyway, she asked me if I had any turnips to spare (I didn’t and probably wouldn’t grow turnips even if I had an actual garden). Then we got to talking about her mom’s cellar. It contained wooden shelving probably 6 feet tall and 10 feet long along both walls. I remember being there when I was a kid and being fascinated and mesmerized by the multitude of canned food down there.
They were set for World War 3 and probably World War 4 and 5. There were rows upon rows of quart sealers full of almost any kind of vegetable you could want. I would say she was almost at hoarder status, but imagine the work that went into all of that.
I don’t know what level of education she got to. She didn’t have a job outside of the home but man could she provide for her family. That’s success.
Raising kids to be mostly good humans, who contribute to society, that’s success. It’s a terribly hard frickin’ job, let me tell you.
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