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What Success Looks Like in 2021
The past year has taught us a lot about ourselves, and what success must look like moving forward.
When I was a young girl, I knew that success meant getting good grades so I could later get ahead in life and have a successful career. Growing up in our individualistic, competitive society was a pressure full, isolating experience.
Soon enough I found myself lost in the ocean of possibilities, feeling torn by the messages I was getting about being a successful career woman, and my more internal longing for love, closeness, and family.
There was a deep emptiness that came from that sense of aloneness in achieving the goals that were supposed to bring me happiness but didn’t.
At university, the other psychology students lamented the paradox between the competitive way in which psychologists were trained, judged by their grades and not by their spirit of service…and the actual essence of the trade.
It was years later that I began to see the greater picture, of humanity out of sync with itself and its true goals in life, as much as it is out of harmony with nature, its surrounding environment.
Then came 2020 and changed all that.
