SUCCESS, In a Box!

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For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a “Success Box”, I shall gladly demystify it for you. For a small monthly fee, you get delivered to your door a box of sample sized success bites that you get to try, without the pesky task of having to pay for success full price or painfully commit years of your Life to the wrong path!

An array of feelings and quotes at your fingertips, as easy to possess as to discard. Confidence in a bottle. Or spray. Or tube. Reachable and palpable and miraculous. Infinite affordable Beauty, Charm and Wit. The ultimate American Dream. Delivered to your door.

The doorbell rings. Like clockwork, every month you receive your Box.

The gleeful subscriber places the box on its lap and opens the enchanted case, face glowing with enthusiasm and eyes glimmering with hope. Golden rays emerge from the box and a deep breath is taken at this very moment. The subscriber picks each item up and analyzes it in excitement. Holding all the products in one hand and observing their small size, the subscriber wonders: “will this be enough?”.

You have “Right Decision Spray” and “Fit Without Workout” oil and a doll-size “Gift of Gab” lipstick – Red Number 5. The subscriber then smears it all over its face, in a specific order. A thought-of, consequential, logical order. Or perhaps a made-up sequence. Though the second hypothesis sounds absolutely terrifying.

The subscriber looks in the mirror. First a deep and focused and determined stare. Resolute in finding an absolute variance between the before and after. A forced grin follows, as if saying “It doesn’t work immediately, silly!” and walks away from the mirror, only to return every few hours, glancing, in the hopes something has changed. It’s bed time and there’s much excitement in the air. Tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow we will be able to see a transformation. We love tomorrow. It is always so hopeful! (Or so we expect, unreasonably).

The first morning greeting with oneself in the mirror is startling. Nothing has changed. We are hit with regret breath, a saggy arm waves back in the mirror, saggier than yesterday. We love yesterday. It was so glorious! (Or so we remember, unjustly).

There is a flake of untruth dangling from the lip. It is tainted red - Red Number 5. Our subscriber looks and feels the same. Except more jaded and disappointed. The war to achieve infinite affordable Success was lost. If only that stubborn self-doubt had just subsided, all other problems of a besieged young professional would seem much less worrisome. Right?

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A Success Box is a great idea until we realize that success, itself, is a box. One in which movement is nearly impossible. You see, if one is considered “successful” it is hard to be considered anything else. You make people uncomfortable or nervous or jealous or drawn to a side of you that impedes them to look at the whole picture.

“Success” becomes the only defining abstract goal to reach and people admire you for it. You get used to get your way easily, given access to exclusive places effortlessly. You feel blessed by the gods and you hear its archangels chanting for you, everywhere you go. Success becomes a commodity. But so do you…

It no longer matters what book you chose last, you must achieve. It no longer matters how many languages you speak. You must always watch your words. It no longer matters what new ideas you come up. You are defined by your last Win. And what a fall that could be. Quickly, you become terrorized with the idea of losing the only thing that defines you. As much as all this admiration might be bothersome at times, not having it sounds frightening. Those devout compliments as you arrive at dinner or the lustful silences you provoke in potential mates.

All could vanish, all is lost. You worry more and eat less. You shop more and live less. You live to achieve more and experience less. You work hard to meet these self-established standards; inhumane, selfish and unimportant. Ego driven, manic, self-imposed, yet required, ritual of sacrifice. Vacuous and deprived of meaning.
You’re left in fear. Cold sweat drips down your back and you have recurrent dreams of being broke, unknown and undesirable.

You would do anything for another hit. Another opportunity. Another chance to be admired.

The doorbell rings. Like clockwork…

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