Success Guarantees Animosity and Separation

 

Success guarantees animosity and separation

The more you “succeed”, the more you separate yourself

 

Obviously you do. You become different to get different outcomes

Furthermore in getting different outcomes — you lose interest in the old outcomes

Including old people, their old opinions, their old activities, all the old shit related to them

And they feel the same way about you

 

And if you just got lucky? If you remain the same — just got different outcomes?

Then it’s even worse!

You’re now sheep among the wolves

You got outcome you didn’t deserve

You now sit at the table with the adults

You will soon learn that you’re a moron and a loser, compared to them

You didn’t earn it, you don’t belong there

You will feel most insecure in your entire life

 

Finally, when you get superior outcomes — people want to take it away from you

Not because they are so evil

They’re just self-interested. We all are.

But when the discrepancy is too big — their incentive to benefit at your cost starts outweighing other qualities and values, like loyalty, self-respect, morality, etc.

 

Obviously the point of this text is not to dissuade you from doing better,

It’s more an apology for those poor fellows who “made it” — only to lose everything

As well as a relevant PREPARATION for what’s to come

As well as some consolation — for indeed moving slower, with some bad luck — can perhaps be better