$3,000,000,000 Worth of Trophies

I don’t have any trophies, no markers of anything of significance, no false monuments to my own skill or lack there of. I am in a few school yearbooks as student and teacher. I have 5 boxes of records in the basement filing vault in a county courthouse, placed on a cart, parked in a corner. After I am gone, there will be a headstone somewhere, and my DNA in two daughters who may or may not have children to pass it along, more diluted with each succeeding generation.

I shaped a piece of glass that is now in an ancient and beloved Gothic cathedral in France, maybe my fingerprints are still there. I have other pieces of glass work here and there, none really worthy of note.

I have words written on the internet, preserved for as long as this lasts, and then I will have vanished from this Earth. I was perhaps an average man, lost to history like the billions of other average men who lived and died over the countless millennia.

My ego does not need trophies, nor monuments, not rousing tributes and parades. I shun these things. I just want to live a peaceful comfortable life, free from the s~~~ vortex, and free of court interference. I appreciate my freedom and sovereignty now that it has been given back to me. I will never give in to the false security of domestic life with a woman again.

My life lead the way I want it to be is reward enough, that is my prize.

Secret Agent MGTOW wrote:

Most of what people are do, is vanity. Trophies never really were a big deal to me. I just wanted to do well, to do my best. Many things I was interested in and pursued were not things you could get trophies for anyway.

^^^^^^ THIS !
When I was young, I used to live,practice,train for a trophy; it meant something.
Now that I am older I realize that the winning or losing of a trophy is not all that important.

I have competed where the sanctioning body has “thrown the rules” in order to get a CERTAIN person to win. Other times I could have competed in more than 1 class. (not at the same time). I could easily win one class with maybe 5 competitors, or go into the more popular class with 30 competitors. I always opted for the later as I held 3rd place in the popular class in higher regard than placing 1st in the smaller class. (even though I would have gotten a bigger trophy.)