Is it Success? Madness? or a Mob Mindset?

aswath govind
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
2 min readDec 23, 2021
Photo by Leo Foureaux on Unsplash

Early 21st century is believed as the best time to be alive on earth. Even today, we witness an equilibrium in the amount of people who wake up to fight for their survival and who wake up to work for their aspired dreams and successes. Arguably, not everyone are being driven by their personal choices, but by of their eventual and inherited circumstances.

Doesn’t success sound so circumstantial?

Quoting the American dream from the 1931 best-selling novel — Epic of America. “Anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society in which upward mobility is possible for everyone. The American dream is believed to be achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance”.

Doesn’t success sound so meritocratic?

A perfect ovarian lottery can offer healthy food, good education and all other essential opportunities in life that will obviously lead someone to nothing other than a successful life.

Doesn’t success sound so nepotistic?

A humble, acetic life dedicated to the well being of the whole of humanity and lives on earth is regarded to be the greatest form of success known to humans.

Doesn’t success sound so healthy?

Bags of money, halls of fame, luxuriously glamorous lifestyles and super-hot partners are nowadays becoming so synonymous with the highly glorified and dysfunctional world of the successful.

Doesn’t success sound so filthy?

Success tends to co-exist with anything and everything, from contentment to corruption, from riches to rages, from the misfits to the fittest(s), from the good to the bad.

Fellow humans…. What is that we are craving for in life as a mob?

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