 Sunrise at Communications Hill, San Jose, California, USA Society often pushes us to be the best-to reach the top and stay there. But what happens when the title is lost? The truth is, you don’t need to be the best at what you do, as long as you give your best. Being the best is temporary. No one stays at the top forever, and you shouldn’t want to. Progress depends on people surpassing each other. If you attach your identity to being the best, you set yourself up for suffering when the inevitable happens. Look at top athletes-world records never last forever. Someone always comes along and breaks them. If an athlete’s entire identity is built around their record, losing it can feel like losing themselves. The Cost of Being the Best Many high achievers struggle with this reality. Here are two famous examples: 1. Michael Phelps - The most decorated Olympian of all time, yet after the 2012 Olympics, he fell into deep depression. He later admitted he felt lost without swimming, realizing that chasing gold medals had become his entire identity. 2. Tyson Fury - After reaching the pinnacle of boxing by defeating Wladimir Klitschko, he spiraled into depression, alcoholism, and even contemplated suicide. He later shared that his suffering came from having no purpose beyond being “the best”. These examples show that when success is tied to external validation, losing it can be devastating. The Power of Giving Your Best Instead of trying to be the best, focus on trying your best. This shift changes everything:
The irony is that those who always give their best often become their best-but without the fear of losing it. The Journey vs. The Destination Success is often seen as a destination, but in reality, it’s the journey that matters. Being the best is about reaching the top and proving something to the world. Giving your best is about continuous growth and proving something to yourself. The process of discovering your full potential is the real goal. If you only care about being the best, you stop learning once you get there. But if you focus on always giving your best, you never stop evolving. Let Go and Surrender The world encourages us to chase being the best, but it misunderstands the real path to fulfillment. Success isn’t about holding a title-it’s about becoming the best version of yourself through relentless effort. Try your best and let the universe take care of the rest. Success comes and goes, but self-mastery stays with you forever.
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 Quaking Aspen Trees in Telluride, Colorado, USA Nature's beauty may be deceiving; a closer look at plants and flowers reveals imperfections, like missing leaves and broken branches. Yet, this doesn't diminish their perfection. In reality, they embody perfection by serving their purpose—to sacrifice for others. Similarly, we, and everything in the universe, exist to serve others by simply being ourselves. Our brokenness imparts vital life lessons to us and those around us, forming a perfect and beautiful mosaic. - Feelasoulphy  Being unhappy is the first step to becoming happy. Unhappiness is a type of human emotion. Just like all other emotions, it is not always a bad thing if it’s only a temporary or transitional state. What is bad is prolonging the changes that need to be made which results a permanent state. In fact, being unhappy is your first step to happiness. It is the ultimate driver to get out of your current state of being to achieve more desired results. It’s unrealistic to be happy all the time because if you care about yourself you'd want to change for the better. Sometimes change might not feel like a pleasant experience at the moment. If you are constantly trying to improve yourself these emotions of happiness and unhappiness can be a continuous cycle until you reach mastery. You are unhappy because you detect something that is not going right. You might not know exactly what and how to fix it yet but you are consciously and unconsciously trying to make it better. The more self-aware you become the more “flaws” you will notice about yourself. Just because you notice more of your flaws it doesn’t mean you have more issues. It just means you are more aware of them. At some point there will be more happy moments than unhappy moments because there will be less problems to work on. Oftentimes people are unhappy about their unhappiness, but once you understand this emotional cycle you will actually be happier because you begin to accept the unhappiness as part of the process of becoming happy. - Feelasoulphy  Thank you for not giving me what I wanted in those moments because you knew they were not my soul’s desires. Thank you for making me feel disappointed, heart broken, angry, jealous, depressed, embarrassed. Through them you prepare me for what I truly want out of this life! - FeelaSoulphy |
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