Digesting Success and Fame

 

Digesting Success and Fame

Many people have to strive hard throughout their lives to achieve a modicum of success, and for some people success comes very soon either by accident or because of their own skills and efforts. This is specially so for those who are sportspersons, singers, musicians, actors – where fame and money throw them completely off balance resulting into them going headlong into the fast lane – drugs, sex, gambling and high spending. In India two contrasting names come readily to mind – Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli. The more talented and skilled person could not handle the fame, and the other worked hard at his game and made a respected name for himself all over the world.

Nowadays people do not like to work for their success – they want everything ‘yesterday’. Life has become so fast that people are going ahead of themselves and then falling. Once they fall, they realise their mistake, but then invariably by then it is too late.

Those who come from a healthy family background usually manage their success very well – actually in the end it becomes psychological – whether you are able to handle the success that comes your way without letting it go to your head. I was always taught to have my feet firmly on the ground however high I may fly – that I did not fly very high is another story – hahahaha – but whatever little success I have had in life – that has never gone to my head!

If we learn to surrender our success to a higher power, accepting that whatever has happened is because of His will – then we accept that the success is technically not ‘mine’ but has been bestowed upon me. That makes it easier to digest and also helps you in sharing the fruits of success with other less fortunate people.

If we start meditating early in life, then on tuning in with the inner self we realise that whatever we are doing or achieving is absolutely temporary in the larger scheme of things. We learn that both success and failure are an integral part of life and acceptance is the only way forward.

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