A person describes chasing wealth and status only to feel hollow, arguing that external wins can't fill the gap left by self-criticism and unresolved guilt. Real satisfaction requires accepting yourself first, not collecting achievements.
If you have not worked out yourself and your relationship with yourself, it does not matter what's happening on the outside. That's like the clothes you wear. That's what everybody sees. If you still are beating yourself up for the mistakes that you made, if you're holding that over your head like ransom for your happiness, success does not make you happy. I started too late in earnest looking at my relationship with myself. We all make the mistake. And there's a lot of psychiatrists and psychologists and incredible researchers out there that talk about this. This is not my field. of expertise, but I have lived it in terms of hating myself and holding past mistakes over my head and feeling like I'm a bad person. And so many of us chase achievement and tell ourselves that if we just get a million followers, if we just have a million dollars in the bank, if we just drive the right car, if we just have the right clothes, if we're just in the right friend group, then those things on the outside somehow repair the things on the inside. Those are just the things you're doing. How you're feeling about yourself is the game.
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