True Success by Katydad
This is a tale of success through the ages. Success varies and confronts the ability to succeed with our personal and professional relationships.
Overcoming obstacles or bad habits to be successful can be an insurmountable challenge, but who decides what success means?
Let’s look at success though the ages. What is success for a baby? Baby Bob plays with his rattle and thinks to himself, “My success is getting a bottle and having a clean diaper while being cuddled and rocked in my mommy’s loving arms simultaneously.”
Tommy, the non-talking toddler, success could be based in the battle of potty training. He mumbles,” why doesn’t that new childcare lady understand that when I pat my chest and then my bottom I am telling her…… I need to go. “Me go potty. ME..GO-OOO..POTTY!” She can see me standing in front of the bathroom door holding my pants while I am wiggling and squirming. I guess she just doesn’t understand body or sign language.”
Tormented Trent, a kindergarten student confesses, “I am successful if my little wooden man does not move up Mrs. Lowery’s ladder of misbehavior, forcing me to sign the “In Trouble Book”, under duress, and then getting a letter sent home to Mom again.”
Tina, the teenager has set a new goal for her success as she demonstrates her animated and unique gestures she states, “Just because I am adventurous and break every rule doesn’t mean I should have been grounded nine out of twelve months this year. I think it’s in the Guinness book of world records! Next year I am going to try for more.”
Visiting Grandma Mimi, success would be avoiding all the obstacles on the floor between the kids and the new 1-1/2 lb. Chi wa-wa that they just had to have, like they didn’t have enough to keep them busy.
Chico the Chi wa-wa, success is survival from the kids who poke and prod him, continuously wanting to pose his body and touch his head. Going through the “Rocky” extravaganza when Mike, the Dad, hums the Rocky theme and Amy, the Mom, parades Chico around in his thin flannel sweatshirt with “Champ” written on the back.
Amy, the Mom of Tommy and Trent, would be happy with a minor success. “I would just like a life that doesn’t have calamity, tragedy, or a trip to the hospital, in every corner waiting to pounce upon me like a savage beast.” Or trying to find time to spent with her husband, some quiet time, that do not existing until all the other in the house are asleep. Then if she gets a few moments after she does extra work on her home computer, they do laundry, dishes and prepare lunch and backpacks for the next day.
Just a few moments would be nice.
True success can be just surviving daily trials and tribulations that rain down upon those under the tattered and broken umbrella of Murphy’s Law.
