A Wise Guide Into Your Own Happiness and Success

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A wise guide into your own happiness and success. " The jungle is dark, but full of diamonds." As a younger child I believed I was an explorer. I believed that if I could find the end of a rainbow, I would find magic. I would walk and search for miles but I could never find the end. Eventually I came to doubt my abilities as an explorer. As a college graduate my idea of magic had faded. I was looking for another type of diamond. I then believed the only way to be happy was to be successful. To me success now meant having what everyone else had. I worked long and hard, but never did I feel a sense of satisfaction. Now on the brink of retirement, I now know that it is me who has to make a meaning to my own life and not live the life of others. Only now do I feel truly successful, and truly happy. My life may not be perfect according to you, as high school graduates but my satisfaction is driven by the fact that I made this life and nobody else made me do any of it. I can now accept my responsibilities for not only my success but also my failure and be proud of what I brought out of the jungle. It is now time that this corporeality is made known. It is time our society stops being a flock of sheep and instead becomes a society filled with individuality, happiness and success. This starts with you. I spent a lifetime dreaming, before realising a dream is only worth dreaming if it is pragmatic, otherwise it becomes an illusion. Living your life reaching for something that is never going to give you satisfaction is darkening. The American Dream sells us goals that are supposed to define success. But as time changes so does reality. Now days "a white picket fence means nothing "(MKTO). For you today it is all about automatic gates and concrete driveways, new technology and fancy cars. The American Dream is now insignificant to the new dream of today's

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