Extremities

ITS NOT WHAT YOU ARE UNDERNEATH, BUT WHAT YOU DO THAT DEFINES YOU....
Batman s girlfrnd tells him in the latest batman flick - How true...
its taken me a couple of hundred centuries to realise this simple but profound truth ....
My girl friend often used to tell me this - albeit in different words n we used to have heated arguments abt it... I would not budge from my stance that wht you ARE underneath is what mks you a contented, successfull-in-ur-own-terms person...
i ve realised tht striving too hard to achieve something good is NOT a bad thing - that effort to reward ratio is one of the most misguided concepts that ever possessed me - infact, it was this rationale that stopped me from actuallly trying for anything too hard and settle for whtever little success came my way.
Cant really put a finger on what made me change this view of mine - it musta been a series of events - or my gf might ve been a more successfull "nagger" than i realised - what ever be the reason, oflate i ve felt tht its the satisfaction of trying really hard to succeed that matters rather than the joy of success itself....
n im seeing it in action too - busting ur ass over a problem n finally overcoming it is much more sweeter than jus gliding over it n succeeding by chance!