Never lose hope. Never give up on your faith. Never stop believing in your dreams. Work hard. Pray. Believe in yourself. Dreams Do Come True.
All of us want to be successful, come through all the valleys, get up each time we fall and reach a level of success we aim for. And most of us work hard, put in the hours, sacrifice, go above and beyond the call of duty and go the extra mile to make our dreams come true.
But not everyone will celebrate our success. People who we thought were friends surprise us.
Has this ever happened to you:
You accomplish something really big…maybe you got a promotion on your job, maybe you completed that degree you’ve worked on for so long, maybe you lost 20 lbs., maybe you received an inheritance…
And the one person you want to share it with most is your best friend, right (other than your spouse/partner)? The person that you are so happy for each time they have accomplished something really big, right?
And their reaction to your happiness? Utter unhappiness and resentment. Yeah, that’s right. Some “friends” turn out not to be friends once you’ve become successful. These “friends” make you feel like you don’t deserve this happiness.
For the life of me, I don’t get these people. I’m not wired that way. It just isn’t in me to be resentful or jealous of someone because they have accomplished something or reached a level of success they have been working toward. And I THANK GOD THAT I AM NOT WIRED THIS WAY.
Why does this happen? Why can’t people be happy for others? I’m sure there are many reasons, but in talking with some friends this week, we came up with a few reasons:
** Never let people who gave up on their dream talk you out of your dreams. You lived this motto for years as you were reaching success. Some of these people who are not happy for you listened to others. They were talked out of their dreams and you weren’t. They recognize it and can’t be happy for you because you held fast to your dreams.
**You not only broke the mold, you built a new one. You built your dream and dared to go after it. You took life by the horns and said , “I am making you what I want you to be.” Others have let life dictate to them.
**You’ve let some friends go along the road to success. Sometimes in the natural course of success, negative friends will get left behind. You didn’t do it intentionally to hurt them—they just got left behind because they weren’t as interested in success as you were.
**You sacrificed. 18-hour days. Every day. Seven days a week. You were working long before your friends got out of bed each morning and still working after they went to bed at night. You made it because you worked harder, longer, gave more, believed in you more, prayed constantly to make it happen, got up every time you fell, had a few good cries along the way, and told yourself every day that you would NOT quit…and you didn’t quit.
**Some people are just jealous, unhappy people. There’s no other way to say it. They cannot be happy for you because they don’t know how to be. These are the people who will never be successful because they cannot get out of their own way.
Continue to pursue your dreams. Every successful person has had to endure a whole bunch of people who were negative, jealous and unhappy. Such is life.
Surround yourself with people who are positive, who believe in you and who celebrate your success with you! Those people make life worth living!
All the best,
Charity & The Horse Mafia
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