Is success everything in life?
Wednesday, 23 January 2008 . 09:03
“I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”
_ Heath Ledger
We've all heard the breaking news about Heath Ledger, found dead in his apartment caused by drug overdose. This makes me think, and confirms my belief that success isn't everything in life. Who knows what made him take those pills... what emptiness he must have been feeling inside. What makes someone turn towards such solutions...? I don't think he purposely over-dosed... but he definitely knew the risk was there.“I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.” _ Heath Ledger
The first thing this breaking news brought to mind was Kurt Cobain's suicide letter which read;
"The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I'm having 100% fun. Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch-in time clock before I walk out on stage. I've tried everything within my power to appreciate it,"
"I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can't stand the thought of [my daughter] becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I've become."
Money, success, fame... they really aren't important in life! It's a wide-spread social lie!!! We even decieve oursselves! We love watching these actors on screen because they've got it all; perfect body, best car, gigantic house with pool and sauna! they have fan clubs and recieve thousands of letters a day. But we know the other side of the coin too, their drug-addictions, depressions, alcohol dependency, marriage break-ups and all the works!! Yet, although we know both sides, we love the good side and enjoy gossiping about the bad side, and we're still jealous of them! The two mentionned above should teach us one hell of a lesson: that they didn't find a strong enough meaning in life to keep them alive... but maybe they didn't search deep enough!
"There is a connection between heaven and earth, finding it makes everything worth it, including death, missing it makes everything worthless including life..."
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal LIFE." John 4:13 - 14
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