Success is the Best Statement.

I used to think that success was the best revenge when someone tried to hurt me. Through half-mast eyes this morning after a night of trying to come to grips with something a person close to me said, I realized that I didn’t want revenge. It wouldn’t teach them anything anyway. I wanted to simply go on…leading my life the way I have been…. with my goals in place and my working toward them. Last night I wanted to leave the area. This morning I don’t care whether I leave or stay. The venue isn’t going to change this person. It would only change me.

So this morning, in the wake of still smarting a bit from yet another of those proverbial straws, I find I am not broken. Again, wiser. And a little more nonplussed by the nonsense than the time before that. And the next time, I’ll be even a little more-so. You eventually become accustomed to the water dripping on your head. I’m not one to wait for the perfect conditions to lead the life I want. If I did, I would have never thrown my coins into the Fountain.

This morning I embark on fine tuning that picture of my life that I have. It’s clearer than it was yesterday. Clearer than last week. Clearer and closer.

Success is not the best revenge.

Success is the best statement…. the statement of who you are and how you want to live.

My success lies in the fact that the way I want to live my life falls out of my mouth and into being. How lucky am I to have learned that I have the power and will to do that no matter how many straws are stacked?

gloria