Success in Life
In the throes of anti-deliberation, a sequacious man welcomes a morning — fit for the taste of failure.
The pressure to succeed coupled with the notion of inevitable failure, a potent concoction to drink every morning. The sickening sweet breath of false comfort lingers on the skin, sets in and seeps into the marrow.
Moving from writing to creating a document, he almost instantly forgot why he turned on the computer in the first place. It took a moment for him to catch himself and redirect the thought to the original intention. Having noticed a previous window sent his mind towards another unintended objective, not an unproductive one, but nevertheless a distraction.
Sure, it was a simple task, thankless and without pleasure, but somehow completing a two-second task seemed like the most important thing in the world he could do at that moment. Suddenly, there was meaning in the mundane. He didn’t feel excited, just happy to fulfill a purpose — not entirely self-serving — certainly there was nothing charitable in it. It was simply the delight of maintaining concentration for a period and noticing the flicker of the mind — a mere two seconds — before returning to the task. Being able to capture that shift of the mind was everything that he needed to reveal it’s nature and regain control.
