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Instant success

Posted on 3 April 2009 in Annoyances | View Comments

The other day I was chatting with a friend about British ‘success’ culture after reading a multitude of Apprentice tweets. What is our fascination with the idea of instant success?!

Is hard work overrated?

Jade Goody rose to fame after being an unreserved extrovert (to put it nicely) on Big Brother and by publicizing and capitalizing on her battle with cancer. She became famous with very little effort, and the British public somehow idolized her.

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Life is a Journey, Not a Destination

Posted on 23 August 2008 in Annoyances, Personal | View Comments

In England I have found that a lot of emphasis is put on social class: what designer clothes you own, what job you have, what posh boarding school you went to, how many properties you own—in a nutshell, how much money you have.

There’s a song lyric swimming in my head that goes “if it’s the simple things that matter, why don’t we live our lives that way?”

It’s great to have goals and to strive to meet them, but if one bases happiness on their ‘success’ (or a measure of their wealth), could they ever be truly happy?  Also, if they are constantly comparing their success to the success of others, surely they’ll miss the simple things!

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