success

We've all heard the expression 'we are all creatures of our environment', thought for a second or two, and accepted it. Wrong! the prisoners are creatures of their environments! The truly successful or the truly impoverished are not the chief executive or the homeless man. They are not the person who accomplishes the most or the least; they are not the person who is happy despite all else or sad inspite of it.
The reason why acting is so diffucult is because your acting being an actor doing an act inside of an act.

The truly succesful might just be the people who can escape. The people who can look at something new without prejudice. Children do this. So oddly enough, maybe to transcend robotic ways of the times and the peoples, we truly need to revert to childhood. Keep all our thoughts and ways, but not be scarred by them. Be a dish of water, it does not change shape if you add more water, because it holds no shape. It still has the added self.

'Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.' - Einstein