You have arrived.

Ok. So you have that girl, or that guy liking you. Maybe you finally got married. Maybe for awhile now, got some years behind you in your relationship, and now have another Valentine’s Day behind you. Feeling pretty good about yourself and all your accomplishments to this point.

You have arrived.

Except, the worst thing that can happen to a person is to feel that they have arrived.

When a person gets to the place to where they feel that they have arrived, they get lax, laid back, feeling that they have accomplished, or achieved.. COMPLACENT. But in reality, that is just as important a time to be protective of his/hers possessions and accomplishments as ever before.

I know I have heard it many times and probably you have too, but “Success is a journey“. It isn’t a position in a company, or a level of education, or possessions that a person has acquired. Success isn’t determined until the individual’s life is over.

Too many times we take for granted the things we have, or the people that have come into our lives, and put “face values” upon them. Like the face values of a Jack to an Ace in a deck of cards when everything should have the same, or equal value of protection, if we cherish them as we say we do.

Our friends, our family, our education, our jobs and careers, our relationships with those that we need to hold dear we — need to never feel like we have arrived.

We can never know what is going to be given to us, day by day, or even hour by hour, or minute by minute. Just as the baseball player never knows when he is going to need to flex his muscles, which way is he going to need to go, to the left, to the right, frontwards or backwards, until that bat hits the ball. Then he only has a split second to act.

When we get to that dreadful place, of feeling that we have arrived, whether it be with the relationship with our husband/wife, our job, career, etc… When it comes to the time to flex our muscles and protect the things that are valuable to us, we will be spending more time shaking ourselves, rather than flexing. And then the things we hold dear are gone.

Remember, the things we possess are only temporal. Including relationships. They last as long as we want them to last. How we value them determines their longevity.