Success

Let's see if I can get this to make sense, okay?

Let me start with a quote: "We work all day doing something we don't like to do to earn money to buy stuff we don't need."
This might be a harmless-looking quote, but at least to me it has a lot of meaning. It means we do all these jobs, especially ones we absolutely hate, just so we can earn money to buy things like iPads, cars, Tv's, and more. Sure, its to pay the bills, too, I know that. But how many of those bills are for.. cable, car payments, furniture payments, memberships, warranty payments, etc.? How many of those "necessary bills" that need to be paid aren't really necessary? We don't need TV's, IPads, heck we don't even need cars honestly. Yet all these things we buy all stack up payments, therefore we need a job that pays more, and that might mean sacrificing our happiness. All we really need in life, honestly, is a house, a family, and food and water. Truly, that's what we need to live. So is it really worth it? Working all day, maybe all night, just to pay for all these extras in our life. Yeah, I know they're supposed to give us happiness, but if it means sacrificing that happiness for almost the whole day, then maybe it's not worth it.

And I don't mean the happiness that you get from playing on the computer, from watching TV, or driving around in a hot red sports car. I mean the pure happiness, the purest of it all. The happiness you get from...  doing what you love to do. That feeling of knowing you're good at something, and you get to display it. And of course, I mean the happiness from the people around you. Your mother, father, sister, brother, best friend, boyfriend/girlfriend. That kind of love. Because it's the most important thing. When you die, you don't get to  bring your Ipod, your car, any of that with you. You get to bring what's inside you. So if you fill your life with emptiness, that's what you'll leave with. If you fill it with love, it will come with you.

So, because of that first quote, I've determined, honestly? I don't want to be successful if it means doing something I don't enjoy. I would rather live in a little tiny house with the bare necessities if it meant I got to listen to music and write and help other people every single day, than living in a big ol' mansion with loads of money and stuff by being, say, a surgeon and not enjoying it. Because I don't want to be a surgeon, I want to be a writer. And if I don't get to write, then I'm not happy. And I don't believe there's a point in living if you're not gonna be happy. I understand that at some point, I will need to find a job, and I might not like it, because I will need food and a home and such. But if I don't get the chance to do what I love, then it's not worth it.

The point of being successful is to have money and to have a reputation. Well, I don't want a reputation if it means I'm not happy. I don't want people telling me what to do either. I know myself better than anyone else does, and I won't let them make my decisions for me. They can help me make them, but they can't do it for me. I know my family and friends just want me to be successful, but I want to be happy. We're all only going to be living on this planet once, so instead of wasting it away for a reputation, make it worth while by being happy and proud of who you are. And you never know when it's your time to leave. So instead of holding off on your dreams, postponing for a later time, go after it now. So even if you don't get to it before you die, you can leave this place knowing you at least tried.

Hope you get it, and I hope you see my perspective on this. I know I might have some flaws in my beliefs, but it's what I stand for, and I hope you understand that