I missed last week for the first time in memory but am back to being preachy on my preferred blockchain of blog. @Wesphilbin waves the flag for us and has created @thoughtfulposts as the curation account you can delegate to in order to boost its reward power for thoughtful posts. Please do!

I invite you share in my musings and the loosely-related music I pair with each.

The Most Beautiful

Bernard Meltzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_D._Meltzer (not to be mistaken for the computer scientist of the same moniker) is an American legal scholar who lived 92 eventful years. Imagine having Prosecutor: Nuremberg Trials on your resume!

Looking at this wholesome image, which might be father and son fishing, I would have been satisfied with the notion ending after the first sentence. As much as I like my toys, they are not the most beautiful things in life. The people and the places are what makes this all magical as fleeting experiences are about as good as it gets. I do enjoy pictures as they enable us to transport back to that time and borrow some of the joy from past experiences.

In case you have never had a beautiful experience, Bernard goes on to explain that those places and memories and picture are filled with moments and smiles and laughter. Though I got it from the first sentence, the last 2 are equally true and this picture really does look like a beautiful thing.

I never pass up a chance to share some Rush and that picture may just be fishing with your uncle.

Real Success

Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson "was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century." Challenging times to be an intellectual but he did it well and his words echo still 140 years after his death.

He is rather wordy in getting the sentiment across as well but here is a rather encompassing definition of success! What spells happiness more than laughter? Success may be doing that often and much. Respect from the intelligent is an important distinction and affection of children indicates a softness and character of soul.

To be appreciated by the honest is an accomplishment but I love the inclusion of the word critics...who would inspire you to be even better. Enduring betrayal of false friends is important for that soul as this failure leads to learning and should not douse our spirit.

Appreciating beauty requires more effort than hating something and knowing that you can bring out the best in anyone is a motivating superpower.

To strive to leave a place, relationship or the universe a better place when you are done is a fantastic foundational strategy that helps to ensure we have enhanced even 1 life.

There is definitely a good deal packed into those words and I can't imagine a more pure universal summary of success as a human.

I am a sucker for 80s metal and this cheesy ballad emotionally gushes about leaving that better world for the children. Will someone please think of the children!

It is definitely time for you to join this movement as the world needs your wisdom and the blockchain is a great vehicle for it. A bonus is the curation by @thoughtfulposts to whom I have delegated some #hive https://hive.blog/introduceyourself/@thoughtfulposts/thoughtfulposts-introduction-or-a-thoughtfuldailypost is where you can get the details and please consider delegating to help make positivity extra rewarding.

I invite you to pen your own #thoughtfuldailypost any day of the week and spill your wisdom on the world via the blockchain.

_{JOIN US ON DISCORD
SUBSCRIBE TO THE LIFESTYLE LOUNGE COMMUNITY HERE
JOIN US ON TWITTER}

I am honoured to curate for:

Beauty and Success are more attainable for each of us when you define them this way.