Which type of people do I want to be around? The ones who are struggling or the ones we are succeeding?

I tend to get weighed down when I spend more than a little time with people who are only struggling. With people who only talk about their successes, I quickly get bored. Or jealous. And a little angry. But mostly, I just lose interest. It's not interesting to have everything go your way all the time. Even the story where someone struggled for a while and then succeeded and now everything is going their way is not all that interesting. I'll probably read the story, but I'm not sure that is a person I want to be around.

I need a mix of both. I want to hear the struggles and the successes. And not always packaged neatly together. If every story is "I was having a hard to time, but I figured it out and now I'm good," I'm going to start thinking you are trying to sell me something.

It's a struggle. It's a failure. It's a step backward, then a step to side, then a stumble. Then a brilliant moment of clarity that is gone in a flash. Some failures, some successes, and a lot of not knowing which is which. That's what I'm interested to hear more about. Probably because that is where I am as well.

Still going,
Caleb