What matters most

Today, we feel the need to be rich, or famous or highly achieved, to feel successful, or to even feel happy. Though honestly, we don't need any of it, if we could learn to be happy with what we have within our small circle.. Our friends and family.

We are racing each other towards something that we do not know of.. Something we may never find.
People leave their countries, their family, to have a better life, in search of what they call 'success', but they do not realise that they've left behind all that matters, their family..  Lost in some glistening fantasy, untill it's all gone.

I don't understand the word "success", as in a "successful businessman/actor/doctor". It is always about the money.. Is he still successful if he had sacrificed everything to get where he is?? Losing sleep, health, youth, time, and family.. Is it all worth it ??

The out of reach tribes in the impenetrable Amazon rainforests.. aren't they happy with their lives ?? Their utmost success would be to make a great kill for the day's meal and enjoy it with their tribe.. Isn't that serene?

To me, to be successful is to be Happy.. To do what we love.. To be with those we love and those who love us.

No matter, even if you turn your world uspide down to be a millionaire, you only have 50 yrs to live in it.. or less.. I'd rather build it with happy moments. I'd rather be a happy common man than a lost billionaire.