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**13. Follow happiness and success will come.**

From an early age we have been conditioned like Pavlov's dogs to be what other people want us to be. Raising an autistic daughter I have learned the joys of saying...'screw you' to other people/s expectations. Think about it...how many people do you know who have spent a lifetime doing what was expected of them, following dreams that were not even their own, working jobs they do not like to pay for houses that own them (it never is the other way around). They follow the success rainbow because they have been taught that the pot of gold called happiness waits at the end. But if/when they find that end...most discover they were following the wrong rainbow all along...and not only do not find happiness but her dark twin...misery instead. Sometimes, folks, it is all right to be rude, selfish pricks/c*nts and just go for what makes you happy. And honestly when you do, I believe that you will discover success at the end of the happiness rainbow...whatever success means to you.