I used to base happiness on accomplishment. Then I left college. No more winning national debating archery or whatever. Just slogging to get work. Felt like shit. You can't always be winning or accomplishing, you have to be happy with yourself for who you are.
I haven't fully dropped that mentality but I'm trying. It is a guaranteed road to failure unless you are usain bolt and commit suicide in 2009.
I actually think winning is the worst. Being an olympic athlete must put a fucked up lense on everything you do.
Id rather be a brick layer, wood worker, geologist, that plays a mad fiddle eats clean, speaks multiple languages and actually experiences shit instead of consuming material goods or looking for acceptance by one group or another. ..
People that are interesting to me are those that are really engaged in something in a selfless detached way.
I think the trick to a good life, is to generally be disinterested in ones self and connected to something bigger.
People are too focused on accomplishments in the noun form, and not near enough in the verb or action of accomplishing.
