No one on this planet is truly “self-made.” If not for the hundreds, thousands, or millions of people who have had to work to create conditions for one’s success, the person would not be successful. One person not attending to their task can create a ripple of conditions for another’s failure. This suggests our interdependence. Rather than allow an inflated ego to give ourselves the credit, we should consider the many others whose shoulders we needed to stand on to even reach that ladder of success. In gratitude for others, we then pay it forward and help others live their dreams.
