Celebrate your Triumph

When you get first rank, you celebrate even if you got it by luck. When you win something, you celebrate even if you didn’t aim to win. Its your birthday, you celebrate even if you don’t understand the point of it. These are things to be celebrated by default. And eventually we start chasing things just to be celebrated and end up winning nothing. Thus, celebration becomes the dull and depressing formality.

Have you ever tried to set your own triumphs? Have you ever stopped studying just to experience a fail grade? Have you ever tried to stand upside down just because you need a different perspective? Have you ever dared to define your own triumph? Even if the world calls you crazy for them?

These are the things that belong to us and us only. There are thousands of crazy wishes. A thousand lame experiments as we grow up. Bathroom singing, closet photography, anonymous blogging. We don’t dare shout about it to the world. What does the first hundred views in your secret blog mean to others. What does that mediocre photography mean to other even though it’s so much better than your previous works. These are the personal triumphs that belong to us. They go unnoticed. They are not celebrated because it’s not triumph to others.

Does that mean your secret photography means nothing because its comparatively mediocre? Does that mean that few views every day in your blog means nothing? No, No and No. Its means the world to us. And it must be celebrated by us. Because no one will celebrate it for us. No feat of ours is too small to celebrate. Because victory is not defeating others. It is defeating ourselves.

Originally published at giveupnever.quora.com.