The second paragraph reminded me of this Alan Watts talk: http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_life.html http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watt

The second paragraph reminded me of this Alan Watts talk: http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_life.html http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_life.html. But unlike the Watts talk, the essay does converge to a very rigid notion of "success".