The truths embodied in success
A few months ago, a special visitor came to my school and talked to us about how she made a huge mistake, which later resulted in her success. Kesinee was in a highly innovative and financially successful degree program, and everyone greatly admired her. However, Kesinee didn’t feel any exuberance in this topic and decided to switch plans to drama. There, she played in many musicals, plays, and everything in between. Kesinee soon became a renowned actor, and this time she loved her career; however, she felt that vibrancy, the fruit of passion, was becoming dull, and once again she decided to switch to a different career, a career which Kesinee faces with brimming optimism.
Mindset
Like Kesinee, we all have felt the notion of longing and not, and like many other individuals, we all have felt a particular pressure to conform to other people’s thoughts and opinions, and what will bring us acceptance and admiration. This reveals that we might require a different mindset to the perception of certain things.
For instance, we have to recognise that not meeting another individual’s standards is okay and regularly occurs. As Theodore Roosevelt once stated, “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” Success is not accomplished by an endless, almost cumbersome amount of desire; it is accomplished by a hopeful and sanguine mindset.
Direction
We as a society ultimately fear straying from the original path; we hate the idea of “failing” and “not finishing.” We hate the fact that starting anew, we would be clueless and have to be taught and improved, and have to be the lower ones and not the ones everyone admires. We don’t realise that starting a new path, switching directions, is like planting a new tree before the other ones grow.
However, if something is planted, it will grow, and eventually all of the trees will grow into a forest, even if some are missing branches. Otherwise, you would only have one big tree and nothing else to rely on. We have to be able to perceive that changing your direction is not foreboding or fearful, it’s brave and right.
Love
To do something without passion is a chore; to follow in a course of direction just because it brings great outcomes is a waste. To spend your lifetime not doing the thing you love and rather the thing that is labelled higher in the economic ranking of society, is a loss. Without love and exuberance, we burn out. We stop seeing the benefits, the point, the outcome. When dawn sets, all we notice is the struggle to keep up, because it’s not about skill; it’s about our passion and dedication to this topic.
As Henry Drummond once declared, “to love abundantly is to live abundantly and to love forever is to live forever.” furthermore, love wins over everything and if you don’t believe or have any hope for your subject and is only willing to do take a subject that wins over the favour of others rather than your own, you stop midway in life and is stuck in a hole deep enough you struggle.
Therefore, always remember to be willing to take risks and always lend an ear to the small voice inside of you that whispers ever so tiny and ever so loud.
Featuring: Kesinee