My new attitude on life is so bad for my bourgeois standing. I don't give a damn about money. I just have to get enough of it to get by; and I will, somehow. Always I will. And I won't be a slave for it either. Life isn't all about job titles and rewards. I don't care if I only pull a B in Astronomy. What if I didn't make the Dean's List? The sky wouldn't fall in.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not settling for less than I could have. I'm not taking a little temporary pleasure over a lot of lasting satisfaction. I just realize that on the last day, I'm going to be judged for the content of my character: my kindness, my generosity, my joy, or lack thereof; and I won't be judged on my report card, or how many figures I rake in.
Virtue is more than asceticism. And it's more than flitting after every momentary pleasure I come across, too. I'm happy. I really am. Despite all of my whingings and momentary tinges of despair, and all my doubt filled dark nights of the soul; it's all going to be okay.
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