Walking the Razor’s Edge

The thing he hadn’t realized about success was that success made people boring. Failure also made people boring, but in a different way: failing people were constantly striving for one thing—success. But successful people were also only striving to maintain their success. It was the difference between running and running in place, and although running was boring no matter what, at least the person running was moving, through different scenery and past different vistas. (Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life)


I have sparred with the best of the best trying make money in the eternal ups and downs of financial markets. I realized there that God gives us just what we need. Successes next to failures, words of encouragement next to verbal abuse. It was great studying the lessons learned of the gurus of the investment business, just as much as it was to listen to those who had to depart pre-maturely. I found God on the battle-field called life. ‘Success’ makes us coo-coo in the head while ‘failure’ brings us down.


When you observe and truly open up to life’s changes and blessings you will find that God encourages us to walk on that razor’s edge that brings just the right mix of successes and failures, aha moments and lessons learnt, exuberance and pain, to be curious, to be open, and to be considered interesting by those who are not fooled by the treadmill called ‘success’ and ‘status’. The razor’s edge, once you discover it, is in fact wide as a LA highway. More than that, you will always find Her there walking next to you!