The Road to Success is Not an Easy One

I've been getting progressively more upset at people's ease of making it big and being successful. They get lucky by knowing someone or just by simply getting lucky. They may buy their way through, bypassing all morals and they may have achieved everything they wanted just in a short amount of time. I get jealous of these people and of their success and I think to myself, "well, why can't I do that?" or "how come they have so much money doing something I could've easily done?" I even get angry at myself that I'm not doing anything that could make me famous and have tons of money. This is incredibly shallow of me, but when I'm stressed out and in need of money these are the lovely things I think of...

However, after watching an episode of Boy Meets World (from the 90's!) where Cory and Topanga had just gotten married and they're struggling to make it in the world, I got back to the root of it all. Cory goes to his parents for help multiple times, first to see if him and his new wife can live with them and later to see if they would co-sign on a loan for a house and each time his parents said they wouldn't help the newlyweds. This upset me but after a while, I realized... this is what should happen. They needed to (I know it's just a show but this applies to real life) learn for themselves and succeed from nothing just like their parents had.

This hit home for me because when my parents and I first moved to America, they had nothing. They risked everything to start a new life and they succeeded. In my eyes, they succeeded very well. We live comfortably now when at first, we started out in a one bedroom, rat and cockroach infested apartment with other people's garbage as our belongings. I know others have it worse, but I'm very proud of my parents for making a life out of nothing. They came into a completely foreign country and succeeded more than anyone thought they ever could.

I want that, I want that incredible feeling of accomplishment. I want to start from nothing and succeed as much as I can. And I know I can succeed. This process makes everything look amazing, it changes your life and makes you appreciate everything so much more - relationships with people, your belongings, money, and most importantly yourself. It makes you proud of yourself, to know that you went all the way and you did the impossible. I want to earn what I get because that is how you learn to truly appreciate things. I believe it's an incredible feeling and I can't wait until I get there.