No pain, no gain

We have heard a lot about sacrifice; "no pain, no gain", "things have a cost" are ideas that adults inculcate us since we are kids and we can see them everywhere, in the job, the school, the church.

The fact is, What are you willing to sacrifice in order to get what you want?

It's not an easy question and is even harder to get a answer to it; your family, friends, money, job or whatever you feel it's important for you.

Some people just ran for a dream, an idea, an ambition; and what they got back? desperation, loneliness, sadness or some other hard feeling.

Are they really successful people? men and women that do what they want in that specific time of their lives, but when they are finally there... in that dream job position, dream house, dream liberty, they just begin to wonder about situations, moments, people from other places, other times.

Of course there is a lot of really successful people because they found what they wanted in that new life, that's great, that means they found the balance in their life or just they felt better in that way.

From my short experience I think you have to be ambitious, but, before you run for that ambition you have to look inside of you and see how much you have to take away from your life, if that really doesn't matter then you are good to go. But it is worthless claim to be happy with something that makes us unhappy.

More responsibility implies more sacrifice, but also more satisfactions, Are those satisfactions enough to fill the sacrifice?

I'm not the richest person in the world, not even in my workplace or the building where I live, but I'm happy with my life, of course with ambitions, and I'm working to reach them, I'm ready to take my chance, even with the sacrifices that implies.

Maybe at the end the success could be measured in: What you are willing to do to get back? if is not too late.