You didn't pick up on the sarcasm. I drew attention to my signature. 1972 Honda CL175 Bragging?? Dream bike: Honda Dream 305 Bragging?? Really?? You've attacked me before, it's the internet, no biggie.
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Define success
- Thread starter BNKN
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You didn't pick up on the sarcasm. I drew attention to my signature. 1972 Honda CL175 Bragging?? Dream bike: Honda Dream 305 Bragging?? Really?? You've attacked me before, it's the internet, no biggie.
Right. I want to get away from measuring success in mileposts of achievement. I feel successful living is being content and in good spirits as much as possible. That's why drugs and alcohol are so popular. Unfortunately they're a bandaid solution. There's got to be a better way.
Maybe I'm obtuse but I always thought the major motivator for success is the happiness it will bring. Happiness being your elevated status and privilege. Why else?
vrus
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quoted for emphasis!
silvrsurfr
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Define success:
to be able to buy back time
ie. knowing i can take 2mths to travel the world with my kid
ie. to take the time needed to better my lap times
ie. finally get to building my dream bike from scratch
All this with out the worry of if i can pay the mortgage or pay the bills or fix the car or put gas in the car etc
money doesn't define success nor does it make you happy - but it sure does buy you back a lot of time.
Lotto Max here i come!!
to be able to buy back time
ie. knowing i can take 2mths to travel the world with my kid
ie. to take the time needed to better my lap times
ie. finally get to building my dream bike from scratch
All this with out the worry of if i can pay the mortgage or pay the bills or fix the car or put gas in the car etc
money doesn't define success nor does it make you happy - but it sure does buy you back a lot of time.
Lotto Max here i come!!
I hear you brother. Ride reports can be a lot like that.
johnp
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^ well sure, people try.
Most people think getting stupid rich will make them crazy happy. The typical lottery winner experience is a good example of how that's not true.
Or becoming Eastern Regional Vice President in charge of blahblah is what they really want....
So success and happiness are not the same thing (unless you define it that way, which is fair), and sometimes success doesn't bring happiness at all.
Pleasure is also something that's easily confused with happiness - not the same thing.
Most people think getting stupid rich will make them crazy happy. The typical lottery winner experience is a good example of how that's not true.
Or becoming Eastern Regional Vice President in charge of blahblah is what they really want....
So success and happiness are not the same thing (unless you define it that way, which is fair), and sometimes success doesn't bring happiness at all.
Pleasure is also something that's easily confused with happiness - not the same thing.
Success...
To laugh often and much.
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much.
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
to be able to do what you want, when you want to
I used to think that it was being able to spend without worrying.
But some of the richest people that I've ever met are the most unhappy. I'm not passing judgment on them, but I feel like the richest people I've met are so bored with being able to buy everything that they just spend on drugs to get a kick out of anything.
I'm paraphrasing largely, but a study was done and it found that after 75k, the "difference" in happiness was negligible. I'm not rich, but I personally found life more fulfilling when I was struggling.
But some of the richest people that I've ever met are the most unhappy. I'm not passing judgment on them, but I feel like the richest people I've met are so bored with being able to buy everything that they just spend on drugs to get a kick out of anything.
I'm paraphrasing largely, but a study was done and it found that after 75k, the "difference" in happiness was negligible. I'm not rich, but I personally found life more fulfilling when I was struggling.
Except most arguments between couples is about money and the lack there of. Finny how that works.
I see a rebutal from the anti having kids group coming shortly.
Trudat.
"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage" - Oscar Wilde
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