Glory

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epicurus

We were created to want to succeed. If we are not yet successful, we admire successful people and wish we could be like them. If we are already successful, we set our sights on even higher goals. Success is a journey, not a destination. No matter how successful we are, there are always more successes to go for. We can never have enough success in our lifetime.

But we want our success to come easy. We don't want to work too hard for it. Instead life throws all kinds of obstacles at us. These obstacles test how serious we are about wanting to acheive something. It's easy to say "I want to be a millionaire". It's another thing altogether to say "I am willing to do whatever it takes to become a millionaire". That's "where the rubber meets the road". If we are not determined to overcome all obstacles, then we don't really want to acheive our goal. It's just a idle wish, instead of a commitment.

If our success came easy, we, and others, would just take it for granted. It wouldn't mean very much. The truth is that success is only satisfying to the extent that we had to work for it, to struggle and sacrifice and fail. How do we know that we succeeded if we have never failed, and never even had to deal with an obstacle?

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. They prove themselves capable because they have demonstrated that they can deal with all the obstacles they are likely to encounter.

The greater difficulty, the sweeter the victory, the more people will be impressed by your accomplishment and the better you will feel about yourself. Welcome obstacles and problems. They are put there to let you prove to yourself that you are truly capable and deserving of success.

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