Someone showed me a video on youtube about celebrity houses. I would understand the normal reaction for most people that have financial insecurity would envy or be amazed.
Excluding politicians and shady names, I couldn't help but appreciate these people managed to make it. I'm sure some of them are already living from old money but there were others that worked their way and made good choices with their finances to be there.
It's hard to flex personal success in social media because you're going to get a lot of attention. And that includes unwanted attention. The advise of just being quiet makes sense because the flak for making it isn't worth it unless drama baiting is what you're really after.
The point is, most successes happen because they are personal and often outside of public eyes. These are personal goals that only matter to the individual and not everyone is going to agree that huge pink mansion is worthy to be called a "dream house". Who cares? at least you can cry in your theater room, get wasted in expensive wine, and use bills as toilet paper while haters going to hate.
If you ever made it in life, don't tell anyone about it. Well, that's my take anyway. I just noticed that people celebrating these quiet successes or personal milestones don't need external validation and prefer to fly under the social media radar. The real people that matter will keep in tough with you offline.
One of my quiet success moments is having stability or less turbulence in the daily grind. There's no problem of the week that would require a tap into the emergency funds, the bills get paid, no crippling debt, no financial urgency, and jus having the choice and security to afford nice things. It's that peace of mind that I call quiet success.
I still want more like saving up for a house, business, and travel but I'm not in a rush nor does it cause distress if I don't have it yet.
Another thing about quiet success outside money talks is achieving personal milestones. How many people can actually say they like what they do and live the life they wanted? I know some people that aren't doing any better financially, they're not irresponsible, they are hard working and yet felt content about what they have right now. Turns out intangible things like family, relationship, quality time or presence matters more for their well being.
Can't say I understood the last example as I'm not really in that type of mindset but I always acknowledge that different strokes for different folks. While society may have no chill with calling out personal successes not a success at times, that's ok, nobody says our victories have to be loud.
Thanks for your time.
