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A New Years thought. - What about success?
Hello my fellow Americans,
A lot of people are always wishing each other a lot of success in the upcoming year. Actually something I find a kind of mainstream.. If you look at it the way I do, not that I am pretending I never said it before. But I would like to give you all something to think about, before you're entering 2016.
Because, what about success?
Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including 30 million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. No, I'm not wishing you success. I don’t even want to talk about it. I actually want to talk about, the failure we experience in life.
Because you are human beings you are going to meet a lot of failure in life. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and also irreparable loss. You will find that you’re weak where you thought yourself, that you were strong. You will work for possessions and then find they possess you. You'll find yourself — as I actually know you already have — in dark places, alone, and afraid.
I also hope you'll live without the need to dominate, and also without the need to be dominated. I hope you will never be a victim, but I also hope you'll have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you'll remember that darkness is your home, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our home. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon, it always did. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where real people grow and so do human souls.
I wish you a Happy New Year - and may the odds be ever in your favour.
Yours faithfully,
Equality
Congresswoman of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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