Success and the ladder thereof?
So many times I have heard of the saying, " the ladder of success." I have thought about it and I refuse to ride that tidal wave. The more I think about it, there is no ladder of success. This is because the saying presupposes that success is one dimensional which couldn't be further from the truth. They are right and wrong. You see, it is true you are climbing up and it is one step at at time, sometimes we can skip a few steps but it is always step by step. The thing is it is not a ladder, but a pyramid. You see the pyramid's base is at it's widest and narrows as you go up. You see in life when we are just starting out we have so many people around us, friends, acquitances, colleagues, family but once we start climbing the pyramid, when we take the next step, the space becomes narrower, it is not as wide as it was at the base. That means we cannot accommodate people the same way as we did before and so what happens is, some fall off along the way, others can...