Sanity, journey, destination

There’s a dangerous side of ambition.

“Ambition means tying your well being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 6, 51

Perhaps ambition isn’t what you need more of.

Perhaps self-indulgence isn’t a good goal at the end of the ambition trail.

Perhaps sanity is the journey and the destination.

If we choose for it to be.