The Ladder of Success

I see my nigerian man on the bus (last post) got very popular. If only he knew I was blogging about him, maybe I will receive my own lecture about him having his BSc and Masters.

Speaking of degrees, I have been doing a lot of research into different career paths and the respective degrees that are often demanded required for the chosen careers. I mean some careers are not so fussy about qualifications like being a WAG (you know the pretty young things that hang on the arms of the muscular young lads who chase that little round thing around on that green rectangular thing) or say being Jade Goody (I mean I find the words hard to qualify what exactly her profession is so bear with me).

Do you know how important it is to find fulfilment in all areas of life? Especially your work-related life? I guess I don't need to ask you intelligent bloggers that question. Maybe I am asking myself that question. I have been doing a lot of research and trust me, I came up with some very interesting results.


Did you know that Giorgio Armani was once trained in Medicine, then he pursued photography before he became the famous house for those amazing 'suits'?

Did you know that at 23, Ozwald Boateng was working in IT which he found mundane (or at least it was to him, sorry IT folks if that's where your buzz is!), around his late 30s he started to make suits and in his 40s he was appointed creative director for the mens wear of Givenchy? P.S He is ghanian so no one should give me the cock and bull story of racism. He doesn't have two heads.

Need I bring up that most famous celebrities worked either in fast food restaurants and stuff before they got their big break...
Gee, imagine if J-Hud (Jennifer Hudson known to others) had said to herself....

'I have a dream. A dream where burger king burgers taste half as good as McDonalds' amazing Big Macs. I have a dream where KFC would increase their prices of barbeque sauces from 10p per pack to 20p so that we can have more customers.Dare I say, I have a dream that maybe just one of these glorious days, I will become a manager in oh so lovely burger king. I have a dream'

Eh. I believe you get my drift. In case you didnt, J-Hud used to work @ Burger King before she became an Oscar Winner. Neither would Burger King have honoured her by giving her a supply of Whoppers 4 Life! (You go girl!!) if she had a remained a burger-flipper.

Finally let me leave you with the story of a man who should be an inspiration. His name is Joseph Pujol and he was a french professional Farter(yes!! you heard me right! someone who expelled gas from his anus for money).

He found out that he had a 'gifted' bowel system and instead of letting this be an embarassment to himself, he used it as a means and way of life. Read Le Petomane's story. I'm sure he was a happy man. I mean all that fame and no gas...

The whole point of my post is, its never too late to start dreaming and fulfilling your dreams.

Anyway I was thinking along the lines of careers and success (like I always do, I'm always inside my own head ), and I started to think of people's motivation to be successful. Some for fame, some satisfaction, mostly comfort,..so I am thinking why do I want to be successful.....these words are right from the top of my head (not a poem but knowing me it could end up like one ...lol)

I will succeed for a comfortable life

I will succeed because any other way is just not acceptable

Because of those blue and brown eyes I see on TV gnawing at the very existence of my soul, making me wish that I could just for a lifetime, change someone else's life

Because of those dreams I keep having and just won't stop haunting me until I very well do something about them

Because of those hungry children who could very well have been me on the streets and they in my shoes, knowing maybe they would have done a better job than I am doing

Because of those who make a living out of prostituting their bodies, their soul's habitation, their lifetime inheritance, just because it is their only way of survival

Because of the little children who think war is a way of living and that having their limbs ripped off is ok, just because they have known no period of peace

Because I want to be a blessing to all these people and change someone's life, heck even change a whole community's way of life

I will succeed not because of the glitz or glamour or fame but just to have the chance to make this world just a little bit better for a fellow human being.

Have a fabulous weekend y'all

XxX

~Mimi~

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