Success means different things to different people. If we are to follow the path that the educational system teaches us or what the media corporations bombard us with, then success is gained by material wealth and occupational status. In their eyes success is something that has to be gained, through certain steps and standards all which come from the expectations of others.
If you’re lucky, you might come across success by chance, through inheritance or by wining some money, then in our present society, most people would see you as being successful. Success for the most part, is tied in with money.
That is not what success means to me though.
For me to be successful, I have to be happy with the person that I am and I have to be happy with the decisions that I’m making. In my eyes, success is all about being happy and content with who I am and the life that I live, it has nothing to do with material wealth or whether or not I’ve achieved academic success or been promoted to a higher positions within a any workforce.
I have been there in the past, working in a team, where I could have progressed professional and achieved a higher salary and with it a higher quality of life. Or so we are made to believe.
But how do you define what a high quality of life is?
Like I said earlier, success means different things to different people. I have no desire to accumulate material wealth, I have no desire to work in a 9 to 5 job, none of that appeals to me and it would not make me happy.
My goal in life has been to live as naturally as I can and maintain my connection to the natural world, whilst continuing to be of service to the earth.
I would not feel successful if the nature around me was not thriving, if my children were not wild and as free as possible. This is what success means to me.
My quality of life may not suit some people. I work hard to maintain my lifestyle, I hand wash my own clothes, I get my drinking water from springs. I have no running water in my truck, instead it is outside and I carry it in. I do not have hot water on tap either, so instead I heat up what I need. But I am happy to live like this, because it keeps me aware of what I need and I need live in awareness, if I strive to become more self sufficient.
There was a time in my life, where the idea of success did scare me, but only because I deemed myself unworthy and I felt the pull to please others instead of myself. So it was not really success that I was scared of, but of not living up to the expectations of others.
It took me a while to realize this and to reconnect with my true self. I had to strip back many layers of conditional upbringing in order to find myself again. I never lost my connection to nature, it just got buried beneath false expectations and pressures from society.
But once I got it back, I became so determined to follow my path. To return to what mattered the most for me and to re address what success actually meant to me.
This awareness deepens my connection to the earth. I do not take certain things for granted, because I know the true value of them.
I consider myself to be successful, because I know that I am on the right path. I am very happy with the life I lead, of course it is not all fun and games. My life is challenging at times and hard work, but that is how it is meant to be. In order to be transformed, we have to be pushed to our limits, No?
I certainly feel like I have been and I am still moving forward, recognizing the opportunities to learn and grow and trusting in the flow of life. I have no fear!
I have feelings of uncertainty, just like everybody else and I definitely go through the many motions of life, but that is what it means to be alive, to feel, to experience and to grow.
I do hope, that through my success, I inspire others to be true to themselves and only they know exactly what that means. It is not something you will be told, it is something you can only tell yourself, it is what resonates from deep within.
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