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My weekend was both relaxing and productive. After giving my place a thorough cleaning, getting laundry done, and going food shopping, I was able to get in my bed and do a bunch of nothing. Surprisingly enough though, that wasn't the highlight of my weekend. The highlight of my weekend came in the form of an epiphany. After a conversation that was initially had to help someone else understand their life's passion, a few very important things became clear to me. It dawned on me, that everyone we've ever met or are going to meet has different ambitions. Therefore, there are very diverse individual meanings to the word  'success'. I can't help noticing, that there's some unspoken rule book on what qualifies a person to be successful and what doesn't. I'm sure it has something to do with going to college AND finishing and THEN getting some six-figure paying job AND sharing it with everyone you know for validation. Don't get me wrong, knowledge is key. Do I think college is the only way to get that knowledge? No. Please don't misconstrue, the mere notion of making six figures, that would be amazing to anyone. Being rich however, won't necessarily increase fulfillment. If a person wants to go to college, by all means, I think they should go and be amazing. Skyrocket that GPA, but only if that is where one's personal, soul crafted idea of success leads them. Don't do something because someone else says it's what should  be done.  That right there,  is cardinal rule number 0.5. Some people in our lives know us really well , but can make us feel like they've never had an actual conversation with us, not one day in our lives. Especially when they say things like "oh wow, you're so smart, why are you wasting your time doing this when you could/ should be doing ( fill in the blank)". Things like that seriously make me want to bang my head into a wall. Repeatedly. What kind of passive aggressive support is that? It would almost be funny, if it wasn't  real life thing. What people need to realize is, a person can do something that people don't even consider a "real" career. They can make seven cents a day doing it, and I PROMISE it wouldn't make not one difference in the world, if it made them feel good being apart of it. Feeling whole, warm, and happy inside is priceless. The best part of that is, one would feel so awesome, that the validation is weaved within the day's work. They won't need to hear how great they are, or how good they're doing from somebody else because the way they feel will show that they know that. Honestly, it's really all in the  way the word 'success' is perceived in the eye of a lone beholder. No one else will ever have the right to force change on someone else's visions, and thank goodness for that.