📏 Judging your success by someone else’s standards

Book of TREE 3.02

Our media streams are flooded with success.
Our feeds are engorged with success.
Our culture worships success.

Everywhere you look, the top 0.1%
and the top 0.1% wannabes
are showing you that success
is unattainable,
or,
more likely,
that success is yours for taking
when you simply take
this course, take
this pill, take
this shortcut. Take
this all with a shovel of salt.
Of course you already do.
You’re far too wise
to believe their lies.
But sometimes…

When the stream is especially full and fast
you go under for a little while
and measure your success
against someone else’s illusion.
Doesn’t it wash the colour from your world!
Doesn’t it drain the joy from your work!
Yes, doesn’t it tumble you through waves of despair?

Come up for air.

The number of streams leads me to believe that everyone already knows this song. I heard it for the first time last week.

Grow slowly
Jeff