Success

What defines success? Is it prosperity or happiness? The two are nice ideas, but very rarely go together. The public education system seems to think it's prosperity. Everything we do is setting us up to make shitloads of money, if we do what they say. How nice. How wonderful. How wonderfully miserable.

I don't necessarily want shitloads of money. That would kind of suck. I'd much rather love what I do and be happy.

But that doesn't work either. Because unconditional enjoyment is not at all lucrative. So some sacrafice must be made. This means both sides should be taken in moderation.

But that's no good either. Who wants to lead a mediocre life making a mediocre amount of money? You get the worst of both worlds.

So where's the right balance? The whole "starving artist" extreme isn't any good. The wealthy CEO isn't either.

Where the hell do I want to be?