Success Pressure

I used to watch movies or sitcoms about going to a reunion and the story would always turn out the same: the character hasn't made much of themselves since high school, so they put on a front. Somehow the whole act gets blown and they are inevitably humiliated in front of the entire school ... just like ten years ago when they were humiliated the first time.

The pressure to succeed and to be doing better than you were before is pretty rough. I used to laugh at it, but now I can sympathize with it a bit. It's good to evaluate your life, but not because you want to base it on someone else's, not because you want to outdo someone else, and not because you have to prove to the world that you are better than what's-his-name. Being a success is never really about anyone else anyways. It's about you. It's about your heart. The kid in this picture is the best because his heart is okay and happy, not because he's the strongest kid on the block. It has always been about our heart and it always will be.