maleficent

When I am dead I will be dead - I really dont care if I am remembered or not - i'll be dead so what's it to me?

What matters is what happens when I'm here - I know that my work obsession has made the work lives around me better because of my efforts... so while that's a success..

there's a poem that's attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (that he really didn't write)

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.

Most every single one of those things - except for the garden patch or healthy child - I can apply to my work life - so that would mean my life was a success - because I have worked...

Everyone is different... doesnt make their choices wrong... or right...

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