To my future self. Congratulations on your
success. I know you are successful and I state this without any doubt or without even considering the opposite because I know you have achieved a lot, more than you realize actually! And may be you got what you always thought of achieving, or may be you did not.. ..despite where your fate and destiny took you, you yet stand successful in life if you are satisfied and grateful for so much, all those little things which hold great significance in our lives. Just think about all that you need to be grateful for, it would take you days, or months or even decades to list all that down. Don't you think we take a lot for granted? Just take a moment to pause and look back at what all you've been blessed with all along, and there's yet to come. Success isn't confined to one single definition, we bound it in limits, we put definition to it, the question is why? Since the definition of success changes over time.
At one point you would feel being a billionaire is success, at another all you would want to in order to be successful is a good family life, yet another would be wanting to lead a peaceful life and again at the same instant you would feel something is still missing. A person could be a billionaire and yet wish for a stress-free, peaceful life with their family. On the other hand, a person with a beautiful family would still want to be a billionaire. The above statement quite as well be a cliche, but this is one of the few and only statements with a deep insight and an essential message in the simplest of words one needs to lead a blissful life.
Success is not in achievement, it lies in perspective.
And perspective changes over time. Success is hypothetical, success is just a theory, success is even a bait to pull you down in a dark abyss where every other person is stuck in a vicious circle of rat race, running tirelessly in loops all their life without the slightest bit of realization. For what? "Success"
Hence, congratulations to my future self, on achieving great heights of realization. This is a reminder of who you truly are, and what you truly are meant to do. Break free from that vicious circle, recede from the rat race and do what you are truly meant to do, be what you are truly meant to be.
Recede like the ocean and come back like a furious tsunami, but do not forget that every once in a while, even the ocean takes a pause just to appreciate how marvelously the moonlight sparkles on the peaceful waves.
Live like a roaring Phoenix, but do not forget what significance the sweet chirping of a magpie, at the break of dawn holds...
Do not let the "idea" of success break you in pieces no one can ever collect, you are far brave than that. You got this!
-Sia Patel
