Envy

When your so called friends fail to encourage & share your success by acknowledging the tireless efforts you’ve invested over a 20 year period, those people don’t deserve to be in your life.
 
It’s more than apparent that envy & jealousy is the foundation upon which those backstabbers have augmented their reality, and in reality, their laziness & lack of effort is the only rational explanation for their obvious disdain as their forked tongue emerges, once again.  
 
It turns out my friends of several decades were in fact smiling assassins all along, however, I’ll bask in the joy of my hard work as I keep pushing ahead professionally & personally.  
 
Who would’ve thought an orphaned homeless girl at 13, with a full blown heroin addiction by 15, would be heading towards a CEO role in her early 40’s.  
 
If no one else can share in my joy through the highs & lows of life, besides my children, it doesn’t matter.  
 
All that matters is that I’m still learning, and becoming the best version I could’ve possibly hoped to have become as I could’ve been a dysfunctional alcoholic or a junkie with 6 children to 6 different men, or a convicted criminal, or worst, I could’ve suicided.  
 
Perseverance, and self discipline has brought me to this point in my life, and whilst I have fake friends who’re like snakes, it’s probable that I could be moving back to the ocean, when my heart & soul belongs.  
 
Whilst I’m nervous to meet some of the Board members on the panel, and engage in their interrogation process during the interview, I’m hopeful they’ll be impressed with the innovative solutions I have to proffer whilst operationalising & championing their strategic visions, should I be afforded the opportunity to do so as their CEO in the very near future.
 
I’ve learnt that you have to sacrifice your social life if you want to pursue your dreams, which also entails walking a long arduous road with smiling assassins who speak nothing but vile about you behind your back whilst holding you in one hand, and knifing you in the back with the other.  
 
Noting, that who a person was 20 years or more ago isn’t who they’ve grown into as an adult that’s learnt how to flourish beyond the capability and reach of their peers...