One of the best lessons I learnt as a young adult is that
Nobody owes me anything.
After I finished Uni and
started job-hunting,
I was hoping someone would
recognize all my hard work and good grades
Looking back, that sense of
entitlement was not a good place to be.
The day I realized that my
success and failures are all up to me
That was the day I became
liberated from resentments and rejections
I am currently reading "The Lessons of History" by Will and Ariel Durant
And the highlight of the book
for me is that
Life is Competition
Excerpts:
"There is
no true equality, “Nature loves difference as the necessary material
of selection and evolution"
“Competition is not only the
life of trade, it is the trade of life— peaceful when food abounds, violent
when the mouths outrun the food. Animals eat one another without qualm;
civilized men consume one another by due process of law.”
“We are acquisitive, greedy,
and pugnacious because our blood remembers millenniums through which our
forebears had to chase and fight and kill in order to survive, and had to eat
to their gastric capacity for fear they should not soon capture another feast.”
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