Success Is From Within

Saturday the 26th of April 2025 and these are the thoughts that are currently circulating in my mind. As I begin to look back at all of the things that I've created, you know because I'm always in the process of looking at the content that I'm putting across my social media, on

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Instagram, on my website, on Facebook, sometimes on TikTok, all of the mediums above. I begin to look and reflect not necessarily on the quality of what I'm putting out, not necessarily the engagement that I'm getting or the engagement that I'm not getting, but I begin to reflect over kind of like this poignant question like you know you know because the thing is the thing is I was having a conversation

a good conversation with a friend the other day and we were talking a lot about results the feeling of you know you know you know the results that effectively create this feeling of being successful, right? You know this thing because it like it seems as though all of us who create and put our work out there on social media are hungering for something in particular, right? Whenever we put a post out we all get to this feeling that we're

looking for and when we don't kind of like get it, it's there. It's very, you know, it's very kind of like silence, you know, but it's also very loud in our minds. And we often don't admit it, but we are all very kind of like familiar with this feeling. And quite ironically, this feeling that we hunger for

is a feeling that we seldom get. We don't get this feeling Whenever we post like something let's say for example We've created a song and we've made a video about it We don't get the feeling of satisfaction that we're looking for irrespective of how well or how not well it does In somebody may like it somebody may not like it. It may get 10 comments. It may not get 10 comments

But at what point do we post something and feel eternally grateful, you know, full, whole, kind of like satisfied with the things that we put out? And you know, I've been having this conversation with my friend and I've come to the conclusion that quite, you know, scaringly, youly, even when we do, let's say for example, write this number down, let's say for example, we want to get 2000 likes, 2000 comments, 2000 shares. When we finally hit that target, that feeling that we're looking for a success

isn't really there. And so now I'm having to ask myself really and truthfully, does the feeling of being successful, the feeling of being whole, being great, feeling satisfied about one's existence, does that really come from an external factor or is that a feeling that is established from within? Because you see as I'm saying this I'm looking at the things that I've put out and I recognize that these are a mere reflection of the things that I've been thinking within

my own mind, the stuff that I've been feeling within my own mind and I feel that perhaps the day when I do look at a post and I find that it is filled with an enormous amount of engagement or at least the day that I look at a post and I feel wholesomely satisfied with what I'm looking at will be the day when I finally looked within myself and recognized and come to terms with and perhaps accepted that it is best that I love who I am because I have every reason to do so. I have every reason to enjoy the moments that I have now, the ability that I have to create,

the joy that I get from creating. And I feel like the day when I do get that success will be the day when I've solved all of these problems that currently lie within.