(A thread.)
Yet, even if someone finally attains these so-called successes, they are often left wanting. No fun. No lasting fulfillment.
Lots of people are hungry ghosts. I know I can be one at times.
The survival of a consumerist economy, like the one most of us live in, depends on the creation of hungry ghosts. But we can choose to opt out of this game. We don’t have to become hungry ghosts. We simply need to step back and reflect upon what it is that we ACTUALLY want.
“Asking what someone really wants questions the very basis on which their whole activity is built. People tend, therefore, to get rid as soon as possible of these thoughts.”
And so the cycle of unsatisfying success repeats. Consumer confidence is high. But genuine happiness is low.
Success is not something that you reach—not something that is outside of yourself, a few bucks away, just down the field.
Success is creating a life you want to live in right now. This often requires letting go of material and ego goals.
It has little to do with anything else, really.
End results, good or bad, are ephemeral. But the process? That’s how you spend your days, months, and years.