happiness is overrated. so is striving to become successful at work. i can hardly believe that i'll be on my deathbed complaining that i wasn't successful enou

happiness is overrated. so is striving to become successful at work. i can hardly believe that i'll be on my deathbed complaining that i wasn't successful enough at work. but rather, I would be mostly filled with happiness and joy because of this long and crazy trip called life. i think if you are easily manipulated by any shit people throw at your face you will feel pretty good while being successful, which generally means that people conceive you as better than someone else. but i see this as a very retarded view of the world, as you might be good at doing one thing, but there are so many things. I just imagine the kid trying to be good at something so they their parents are happy because they are good. When things doesn't come naturally, but at a cost of being superior, or even at cases inferior, it's a bit shitty imho. I grew up as a kid where my parents would only compliment me when I completely beat up other people in everything. I grew up in this and have attained a lot of things which people from my social circle wouldn't ever dream of, to later see that I did all that because I was actually grown with a very shitty perspective of life, where everything I do it must be to win and I could only be happy that way, I was trained that way. I'm still unwiring myself from this bullshit, and I think everybody should. the world got too much sick people with this mindset already. while someone is a awesome co-worker and got promoted to management, the other is strong and struggling with a relative with cancer, meanwhile the other is caring about his son. i see this as no competition at all, success is just perception and perception you don't care about the details of the ones who didn't "make it". and the ones who didn't "make it" might generally be way better than you in general, but having a hard time, not coming from the same background and so on. so I don't think anybody can reliably look for success that way, and it's kinda sad people who does believe in that.