Let me ask you point-blank.

What are you living for?

What keeps you ticking?

What gets you up in the morning?

What keeps you hooked to your devices?

If you answered anything remotely close to the overused -

success -

the words below will shatter your world.

Success?

Success is a devastatingly misleading label.

To chase success is to chase the shadows of one's whims.

To a mother toiling away in the rural fields,

her son who is representing the country in the Olympics

is successful beyond her dreams.

But to her son, he has not even begun.

Why?

Because he is still under the thumb of his country.

The country that paid for his training and living,

and the one that, at best,

will offer him a "job" after he retires.

Does he consider himself successful?

May be today.

May be not tomorrow, when the "job" and its drudgery commences.

This example can be slightly altered to

depict the most prevalent scenario around success in today's world.

To a third-world family

that toiled to put their kids through school, university, and the usual,

their kids having made it by finding a life in a first-world country,

is also their kids finding success.

But is this the Truth?

Their kids have no idea of

how they have what they have.

Their kids are tired and unsatisfied.

Their kids are merely slaves to the system.

And yes, even the "CEO of a start-up" is being a slave in today's world.

I wish I could put it in any other way.

But like it or not, it is the Truth.

The system owns their success.

The system is successful. Not them.

What you know as success is not the Truth.

If you have been chasing it blindly and still hungry or

on the verge of calling quits,

it is very likely that you are yet to face the reality of what success is not.

Yes, there is something as being the truest actualization

of the life that people label "successful".

But they are few and far between.

And if you took a deeper look into the early lives

of these people,

without fail you will notice a commonality.

These people suffered. When they were young.

Yes.

The genesis of the truest actualization of success

is laid during childhood.

Like it or not, this is the Truth.

A child that comes face to face with

real hardship and suffering,

is a "success time bomb" waiting to explode.

And no, not having internet at home is not suffering.

Not even close.

To this, perhaps, you will immediately argue -

"What of all the successful who were well-off or rich kids?"

Well, if you think they were/are successful, we are not on the same page.

They were not successful.

They are not successful.

They were lucky yesterday only to be unlucky for the rest of their lives.

Like it or not,

this is the Truth.

Thank you.