We are faced with never ending distractions in life. Especially in a fast paced society such as ours in Singapore, whether we are talking abt studies, careers, cars, houses and even getting married. There's always this unknowingly drive within one to become better, lest you will be deemed to be unsuccessful. The rat race, the term that's commonly coined to describe the endless pointless pursuit of things in life aptly says it all. We find ourselves always comparing against others that are 'deemed' more successful in life. For one, I'm guilty of it too. As such we seek to emulate them with the goal of eventually becoming like them. However once we reach to that goal, we become restless and then seek to find another 'role model' to emulate and it goes on and on...... 

My point is everybody has different yardsticks in measuring what it means to be successful or unsuccessful in life. My parents goal's was to ensure that my siblings and I have a roof over our heads and that we are able to complete our education. For me its something more than that. I don't presume to know whether I know where lies my life goals. That's why i often feel frustrated in a lot of things in life and that I have the unhealthy habit of comparing myself with others. And you know how it goes from, a never ending cycle of pursuit of what I always wonder..... Often at times after a day's long work when I'm lying on the bed, to what ends am i doing all what I'm doing for.

I'm still working on it, what it means to achieve it. More internalization and better grounded; being able to filter out the distractions that's omnipresent. 

Rather than a life of pursuing, I would like to pursue life