Arrived with a bad fuel
"What fuels you?"
That's a burning question I have seen several people answer. And the response ranges.
Whatever the answer to that question is, it certainly does one thing well. It nudges you to move ahead, never to give up, and to bring your full attention to this one thing you are working to achieve.
It works in your favour, until it doesn't. Until it shows why you are doing this in the first place.
Not because you want to bless the world with your gift.
Not because doing what you do brings fulfillment.
But because you want to show someone else that they were wrong.
That person who said you can't do it. The person who scorned you as a child. The person who thought you wouldn't amount to anything.
You badly want to show them how they were wrong not to approve of your choices. How in spite of everything, you have 'arrived'.
Though several of those who used this as fuel ended up becoming successful - as they choose to define this - they lost the bliss that should come with the journey.
Because in the end, the person you wanted to impress didn't remember they scorned you.
Take the scorn. Hold the rejection. But don't run your engine with those. Find a better fuel.
For your sake. And your journey.