stupid humans!!

idk… i think making enough money to literally tell the world to go eff themselves, and then going and locking yourself inside your own lavish and impenetrable fortress, allowing only those few you choose to accompany you… is pretty much “success.”

Anonymous Affluence would be the ideal… but i’d choose notorious affluence over anonymous impoverished solitude.

“Why the heck would success be defined by how well you’re known among the general population?”

Because money comes from other people; it doesn’t grow on trees (exceptions notwithstanding…).

And so, it’s beneficial, sometimes paramount, that one is well liked and accepted by whatever group is relied upon for their purchases and business, as well as word of mouth advertising and societal normalization. You want everyone talking about how great your business/service/products are, so that even those who don’t convert, are telling their friends how much they like/want/need whatever you’ve positioned yourself to profit from.

And while i realize “money isn’t everything,” and i predict anyone in the audience of this comment (and similar others elsewhere) may feel inclined to overreact and insist that money is somehow irrelevant, just because it “isn’t everything…”

You’ve got to take a moment to realize that money is indeed paramount to success in this world. With enough of it (and from a position to acquire as much as is needed), you can fix everything that money CAN fix, like owning land, building a house, purchasing proper instruction to maximize the efficacy and well-being of an individual (namely the self), and then doing all the FUN things that people think about, when they claim “life is worth living.” You have to make the most and best of yourself, in order to enjoy life; some people cannot do that for other reasons… but others would be well enough content, and have a significantly increased chance, and thus, “hope,” of finding what they /really/ want… which almost always seems to boil down to finding “true love,” or at least a long-term compatible mate.

I recently realized that i’m actually pretty awesome; just lacking in the most prioritized areas. Females have always treated me with a combination of patronization, pity, and disregard. It’s not because there’s nothing good about me, and it’s not because there’s anything terrible or heinous about me, and it’s not my attitude. It’s mostly the problems that would require lots of money to fix. And i think that IF i could make enough to do all those things that i otherwise cannot access, it would drastically increase both my chances of finding a someone, as well as the degree of appeal others would find in me, despite the inability to fix what money cannot.

Extrapolate everything i can consider, to mean: no one wants me if i’m not healthy and wealthy, despite that i am wise, because they, too, know how important it is to have enough money to fix what money is the only thing that can fix. I think the main reason females avoid me, is because i’m “tragic.” Maybe if i didn’t feel so tragically trapped by things beyond my control, i’d be less tragic, and people would like me more, and less things would feel so beyond my control. I bet “enough money” would drastically improve my life, with no expectation of perfection. I would still be the same person, but without all the things stopping me from truly living.

Refined extrapolation: enough money is the minimum requirement to enable truly living. Without it, i cannot truly live. Ergo: i want it. To have that, and to be able to then truly live, would be an acceptable definition of “success,” regardless of what anyone else thinks about it.

…furthermore, that “success” is the only thing worth living for (in my case). If i were to discover that is impossible, implausible, or simply out of reach, then i would have no reason to continue existing, and would prefer to skip all the obligatory suffering included with being alive, in lieu of any reason to continue enduring it.