A good life, doesn't mean an easy life. Quality of life doesn't mean comfort.
It's been some of it magic, and some of it tragic, but I've had a good life all the way.
Jimmy Buffet
I can't know yours any more than you can know my trials and tribulations. But I think we can know the feelings and maybe even more important, the depth of those feelings. It's what gives us human connection and also what makes the current disconnect between humans so baffling.
Of course you are proud of what you've done, you should be. You've worked and delayed gratification (sometimes for years) to get where you are. A reason for pride.
There's a thing I say fairly often (particularly when listening to somebody bitch):
It took everything I've done in my life good and bad to get me to here. Right here, right now is pretty damn good, all things considered.
Life is good if I let it be, and a steaming turd if I wish it that.
Once we isolate and focus on our personal maximization without consideration of he group in any way, we lose the ability to be compassionate, to understand and sympathize. After all, we have experienced different things, so there can't be an overlap between us. And you are white and I am brown, so we can't be similar in any way.
I am not a fan of pride (nothing to do with the sins) but many people apply it to what they had no choice in. Like the color of their skin. I find it weird. But, I can acknowledge it in work, if not results. Taking pride in what we do is more important than in what we have.
At the worst of times, people should breathe and consider how bad it rally is. If they have time to consider this, it isn't as bad as they think.
!ENGAGE 20
ENGAGEtokens.That is just simply profound. If you have the time to think up the bitch it's probably moot.