Success Guilt

Once I had enough funds to cover
food and housing and other basic needs,
I started to feel guilty
whenever I had any additional success.

I had enough.
Maybe I should back off
and allow others to obtain enough also.

Except the world doesn’t work that way.

That success I was being offered?
It would go
to another person or entity
who was equally or MORE successful
than I was.

A poor or struggling person or entity
wasn’t even in consideration.

This is one of the reasons why
the rich get richer,
the poor get poorer,
and
billionaires multiply.

How I deal with success guilt is
I give a portion of any funds
attributed to that success
to charity.

I don’t depend on another person
redistributing success.
I do it myself
and I can be assured it is being done.

Am I doing enough?
Probably not.
But I’m doing something.

Success guilt is a thing.
The cure for it
isn’t to shun success.
It is to use that success
to help others.