And our society's obsession with getting ahead has turned into a whole country full of people who are determined to get to this brass ring of success. And it looks like a particular picture of wealth that most people don't have available to them. I feel like what our culture designates as success is having things and having enough to have extra. So you can play like the supposition is that you have to achieve a baseline of wealth before you're even allowed to think about frivolity
Whether you get a lot of money from it or just a couple of donations, that don't matter. But to me, that success, being in tune with nature is successful to me because I feel like without it you can't correspond or manifest the things that you desire without having some type of connectivity towards something that comes have been towards your life and others. But yeah, I just wanted to touch up on that a little bit
jamie church
@jemecherche · 1:16
But, I mean, a lot of people are just looking at how much is in the bank, and I don't feel like you can measure success that way, because a lot of the people with the most in the bank have the least in the tank. Oh, I love that phrase. I want a T shirt. But it's true. I feel like a lot of people are beggaring themselves or completely bankrupting themselves emotionally, physically, and spiritually because they're trying to just financially achieve
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Christine. Oh, my gosh. I am just loving your energy. You have such fantastic energy when I listen to you speak, and I'm just loving your sarcasm and your cursing. I'm totally here for it all. Yeah, you just have such a I can tell you have a very vibrant personality. And yes, thank you for bringing up this question of success
jamie church
@jemecherche · 4:53
And shortly after that, like, I got about a month into it, and then my mom started failing, and she passed at the end of April. And I basically spent as much time with her as I possibly could. And there were 22 days in the hospital, and I was in there every day. And really glad I had the ability to do that because I would not have been able to had I been working a full time job
I know it's been 2021, and 2022 have been pretty devastating for a lot of people. My grandmother passed away, actually, almost a year ago, or it was a year ago, and then my mom was in the hospital. My dad was in the hospital. Last year was a whirlwind for a lot of people
jamie church
@jemecherche · 4:21
And I look at all of the young people who are looking around and thinking, this is bullshit. And I look at them and I think, yes, yes, you are the future. And hopefully they'll be able to make the changes that weren't really practical for my generation. I'm an old exer, so yeah, weren't really practical for my generation. I'm doing it. And all of my peer group, my age peers are like, you're crazy