Success seems to have the power to induce amnesia.
Success, even moderate success, can make you forget the struggles of your pre-successful days, the times you scrounged between the seat cushions for loose change, at least enough for bus fare so you could get downtown to the day labor office and hope to get a job for the day that would pay cash. or maybe get you to a pawn shop where you could get a few bucks for your alarm clock radio.
Success can make you forget the times you had to literally beg any friends or family members you hadn't already tapped out for a small loan, just until Friday or whenever your next payday was going to be.
Success can make you forget the thousand promises you made to yourself, the ones wherein you swore you would never, ever spend any windfalls on useless things, things that weren't worth anything to anyone just months after you bought them, and you would never, ever spend your money on partying with friends who were not really your friends anyway, and that you would learn to save, learn to invest, learn to prepare for the days when the tables were turned and you were no longer raking it in.
Success does that with incredible, mind boggling ease.
Don't believe me? Try it and see. Work hard, become successful, and just watch how easily you will forget days you swore you never would.
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