I often notice quotes from famous people on social networks like: every dream is given only with the strength to fulfill it, never give up and you will become yourself, etc.
And I wanted to look behind the scenes of success. To those who did not succeed. So they did and did, rose and fell, again and again, and somehow they couldn’t get up.
To write about many talented people who were simply trampled for life. Sometimes they became famous after, and sometimes not. It’s as if luck came and “fashion” happened for this person, for this dress, for this song, for this way of life, for these ideas. And that’s all – he is at the top, sometimes for a long time, sometimes not. Such luck when Mrs. Luck favors. But it happens that there is not. At least on a large scale. For example, as often happens, the more primitive the song, the more often and louder it is heard, or the more poisonous the mushroom, the brighter its appearance.
I started this post for support. For those who find it difficult and periodically come thoughts like: pancake, time goes by, but nothing changes significantly, maybe I am not needed by anyone or almost no one? This, by the way, is a significant difference. When only your mother praises you or when at least one out of 10 people who know about your activities tells you that what you do is really cool and valuable for him. Especially if you don’t ask him “how are you?” timidly looking into the eyes. If when you do it time stops and you can’t stop doing it, I think that’s it. Even if the crowd doesn’t understand.
The truth is that not everyone has the resources to become mega-popular. Here, in addition to talent, you also need the important ability to “sell yourself (your product or services)” or find someone who will do it for you, because oh how rarely really talented people are gifted with this ability in the load. As in the movie “Sportloto” – “God gives talents to some, and a car to others.” And this is perfectly visible if you look at the history of almost any industry in the world.
I’m writing about this also because I noticed that even the word “love” made it to the top of the strange fashion hit parade. Nowadays, it is used at meetings and partings and generally everywhere, where, in my opinion, it hardly has a place. And I personally react to him like soap cakes. It seems beautiful and smells like raspberries and vanilla, but soap is tasteless, to put it mildly, and in principle not edible.
In my life there was a situation about such a friendship. We became close quite suddenly, although we are completely different. Somehow there is little free time and surroundings. And at some point I heard it. I usually remain silent in response. Or I’m not answering in a Gestalt way, thank you. Later, I “got used to it” by trying this word, gently rolling it in my mind, and began to answer quietly: I love you too. And then the circumstances of our lives changed, and we soon stopped communicating. My last message to her died at the bottom of the phone, but was never viewed. Of course, I noticed a little earlier, when the circumstances just started to change, that the calls became less frequent, and the initiative was one-sided… But… I always accept this. That there are different periods. But once I understood – we finished. And the question arose in my air space, what about love? If I’m busy, I live somehow differently, family and work, etc. and there is not enough time .. then I don’t love my girlfriend anymore?
I could probably ask. But she was ashamed. It’s somehow too childish. And what kind of answer can I get? I know him. As if I want to bring this word out into the open. Voice the meaning that I invested in it without pronouncing it and find out who said it?
And yet, if even this word is devalued so much that it has to beg for mercy from fashion, then what kind of values do we “people” have left? What rare kinds of feelings and words are still alive and real? I am unlikely to share a definite answer or conclusion. Unless this story convinced me that what I felt all along was true and words are just a tribute to fashion. Even, unfortunately, such. Different things happen in relationships, but if I say I love, then it is definitely not instead of hello. Because even though I love strawberry soap, it’s still not as much as I love the person dear to me.
It remains to combine all this. For example, yes – when my friends or friends of my friends just suddenly write to me that reading me something ignites inside, something is placed on the shelves, something moves from a dead point, I am infinitely grateful that I was able to present it in such a way that people were able to take a piece of me for themselves good. And even if I don’t have millions of subscribers on social media. networks and my book is not a bestseller, it is still needed by someone. And not all success is measured by money and popularity, although the world around tries to convince otherwise.
And in general, to tell the truth, you can do anything. Inventing rules, following fashion, even creating it if you’re lucky. Life is like a big supermarket, and so that we don’t take from the shelves, intending to put it in the cart or hide it under our T-shirt, we will still have to go through the cash register. And the feelings in this short transition, in my opinion, personify our feelings about life. Do I carry what I need, am I ready to pay for it, did I take what I didn’t need or consider someone else’s mine. The spectrum of feelings and emotions that I experienced while I was taking, carrying, struggling with my choice, meeting others, passing through the turnstile is all that my life is filled with. And the luck of carrying it all through or not (to become fashionable in a moment or for a moment) is right there, at the end, and how important it is is for everyone to decide on their own.
