Good and Bad Success.

I literally have no idea as to what I intend writing today, but I don't want to start a new month with not publishing an article.

By the way...

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Welcome to the month of June, which is the sixth month in the year, I hope we've started smashing our mapped out goals.

Sighs...

The Bad and the Good Success.

This statement is coined from a biblical scripture and it's this:

For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.

...from a part of Joshua 1vs8 in the Bible.

Ever since my growing up years, I grew with the mentality that there are successful people in the world, but not all of them are actually clean(I'm pretty sure everyone must have grown up with this mentality too).

It's great to be successful, but if we take a glimpse as to what's going on in the world today; we'll see that, there are successful people, but not all of them sold their way to the top with clean hands.

When I recently finished my secondary schooling, there was this male friend of mine that kept saying:

Him: I had to mute alot of people on my WhatsApp list so I don't have to view their statuses.

When I asked him why, he had painfully said: Almost all of them on his contact list had iPhones, and if he kept viewing their statuses, he'll definitely fall into depression all because he felt he was oppressed by their success.

I actually thought it was weird because all the people he claimed to have oppressed him were Yahoo boys, people that shouldn't have sparked up any form of depression.

Well this friend of mine followed this phrase:

If you can't beat them, join them.

Yeah, he's now doing what they did to get them an iPhone and expensive clothings, and he has gotten his iPhone, he's also dressing like them...I guess he should be happy now.

Good Success.

Good success is gotten through consistency, sweat, smartness, diligence, labour, time, energy, practice, passion...you just name it.

One thing that's unique about "Good success" is that it's genuine and you worked well and smart to attain it.

Unlike Bad Success:

...which is gotten through rituals, Yahoo, consistency, sweat, smartness, lesser labour, deceit, time, energy, fraudulent activities, betrayals...you just name it.

One thing about "Bad Success" is that it's not genuine. One got it through cutting corners.

It all boils down to the things we see on the media, sometimes whenever I see that a boy or a girl has gotten a car. I first observe the source of the person's success. Is it legal or illegal?

If it's illegal, it doesn't affect me in any way.

But if it's legal, it makes me strive to do better.

I stand to be corrected, but you only allow what you want to allow, into your life.

If you want to feel depressed, then Viola, let's welcome in depression.

If you want to feel oppressed. "Oh! Oppression you're highly welcomed!."

If your mates who have started driving exotic cars or building houses look oppressive to you...then you need to be really careful.

Sometimes, those who feel oppressed, later gets depressed and from there, they get frustrated, loose their conscience and become desperate to amass wealth, even if it means killing or using innocent lives for rituals.

These days, we hear terrible cases of how a sixteen years old boy killed his girlfriend or killed his mother.

We hear of how a person betrayed a friend; to use her for rituals.

These same people; after bestiality, ritual killings, Yahoo and all other forms of fraudulent activities would come out after the behind the scenes deed has been done; flaunting their exotic cars and you, that's doing it the right way would start feeling oppressed and depressed that someone you're older than has gotten a car. "Ahian!, But why nau?!"

The success of another shouldn't make you depressed, it should rather make you do better.

Bad Success shouldn't even pinch our skins at all and good success should make us do better.

And it ends here, I've dropped my pen.

Apologies:

I'm really sorry I haven't visited most articles today, I'll surely make amends tomorrow morning. I have a really terrible headache, but just didn't want to miss out in today's publication; being the first day of the month.

Till we meet again in my next article and in yours.

Thanks for reading.