What Success Is Not?
What Success is Not?
(Image Source: Sarath Meleveed)
For what the world names success,
is often, but the helpless witness of another’s fall.
A silent burden carried in triumph’s disguise,
the stillness in which another's struggle echoes.
Such a success, based on comparison, is void,
merely a shadow wearing a crown.
Yet a few know:
true success is the one born of inner growth,
of compassion, of self-mastery;
the kind that harms no one and creates no losers.
- Sarath Meleveed