🧂 TREE 526: Suck cess (or rather don’t)

TREEpeat 98

Skyler had a family member get nailed by a nasty illness this week. Fortunately, they are on the recovery side now. Enjoy the TREEpeat.

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

Everywhere you look, the top 0.1%
or 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 drown 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.

Try using this line next time you need to introduce yourself to a new group of people.

This song never fails to make me feel good. (Spotify).

Grow slowly
Jeff