Why am I unhappy even though I am successful in my career?
Well, sometimes you're successful and you're happy, but there's a lot of people who are successful and unhappy, I know a lot of people who sit in their big fancy houses, having drunk their third Martini and are still asking "Is that all there is?" Well, usually it requires one of more things to supplement your successful career in order to give your life more meaning. Very often, in our capitalist society, to be successful, you've got to be pretty focused on bottom line, and, you know, there's a lot of humanity that's drained from you in the process of that. And for the people who are successful but still not happy, what it requires is an injection of humanity. And that often requires and means things mentoring some young person. You could be volunteering for a cause you believe in. It could be something artistic. Very often, getting ahead in corporate America or even government America or non-profit America is very rational, linear, et cetera. There is an artistic component in most of us that needs to given voice in order for us to be feeling fully complete. So whether it be to try out to be an actor in a community theater play or behind the scenes as a set-builder, or writing a great American novel or at least a short story, or taking a course in comedy so you can maybe go on Open Mike Night, it is those kinds of things, whether it be a relationship, finding love, very often people, in order to succeed have to work sixty, seventy, eighty hours a week, so they have no romantic partner, if they have one, that romantic partner's relationship is subverted way down to the bottom. So whether it be a mentor relationship, a closer relationship with your sister, a romantic relationship, an artistic expression, volunteerism, something larger than just the bottom line are often the missing ingredient between being successful and being content.
