As we go through life, we often make progress towards our goals and we should congratulate ourselves.
Remember life is not a beginning and end, life is a journey, filled with places, things and friends.
We should enjoy the sights along the way, as we pass from birth to death, in our journey through life.
Most importantly we should celebrate, and be happy, as we meet each goal along the way.
But never let a comparison to another, whose progress may be greater then your own, steal your joy and happiness over your achievements, of your own.
Resist the kill joys who make comparisons, and seek to reduce the glory of your accomplishment of your goals.
These joys are yours, you have earned them, so let noone take them away.
For as surely as the other did celebrate their achievements, so do you have a right to celebrate your own.
Pay no attention to the kill joy or other stealers of joy in this world.
Their motives are impure, their hearts seek joy, by depriving you of yours.
Such cold hearts should never be your friends, make them acquaintances only, people whose names you know, and whose motives you remember.
Their approval is never worth your time, nor effort.
Let them toil in the darkness of their soul alone, seek not to bring them light, for they wither and dye in the sunlight, and thrive in the dark.
They are not flowers, but mushrooms, who feed on the death of joy, the death of happiness, they are like flies and vultures , who feast on the rotten flesh of the dead.
They seek to feed on the dying embers of your joy.
Starve them of such sustenance, and drive them both from your sight and from the limits of sound, so their voices fall not on your ears, and their countenance and faces are beyond your gaze.
You should dwell in the halls of your achievements and happiness, but they should not be allowed to darken your door with their presence or their shadow.
