Famished For Victory

It is always joyful, I have learned, to achieve something though one’s own effort. A hollow feeling is always subsequent when receiving credit by someone else’s feats. In a way, sometimes the feeling of accomplishment is greater than the joy from the accomplishment itself. This is why, you must not seek other’s accomplishments (because you would be lacking the moment of achievement), but you must aspire to the joy in the act of triumph as an alternative for being in quest for the happiness in the gain itself. For instance, an A+ on an exam is much sweeter if I know that I studied for it, than if I cheated to acquire it. Another example is that if I practice my instrument dedicatedly, then upon perfecting something simple like a scale would give me more happiness from the feeling of success than the scale does by itself. In this way, Abram was very wise when rejecting the riches offered to him, for he would rather attain it himself and acknowledge his triumph. He supported his choice when he said,
“That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:”. I believe he was the first man to overcome greed and predict how his choices would affect his future personality, and, in turn, his destiny.