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I've been thinking about various types of people and how our society interprets their actions. Especially western cultures.
You have the person that is over achieving working multiple jobs or maybe taking a bunch of classes, maybe its volunteer work. You get the idea.
Then you could have a slacker type of person, does not work much, lazes around the house, doesn't "contribute" much to society. Again you get the idea.
I'm probably going to get slammed by people who aren't going to understand what I mean, but here goes.
I think both of these people could be just as screwed up and not dealing with the world around them. I mean obviously the slacker is screwed up, but how can you say that about the over achiever.
Both are denying life, and both aren't spiritually aware of themselves and their relationship to the "Source", "One life" "God", whatever label you want to apply.
The problem is in our culture the over achiever isn't recognized as a problem. Before everyone jumps my butt about this, I'm saying in general, all situations could be different.
I feel like the slackers are waiting for life to happen to them and the over achiever is going to make life happen for themselves and others...just my opinion.
But I do agree that everyone needs to have some balance in their lives.
jump on you?? no way.
the 1st person you described is the ego driven person. usually they have been hurt a lot and gota prove something. they are very successful, and very unhappy.
every morning on the sahara when the sun comes up the slowest antelope has got to outrun the fastest lion, been like that for me pretty much the whole time.
the second group, as to those floating to the bottom of the swimming pool smiling, its fear also
but they are paralized by the fear of success. known lots of them. i kinda likem.
Maybe that person you think is a slacker isn't really? And as for the overachiever, well that's great if you genuinely are striving for and achieving your goals, but do it too frequently and at the expense of the important things, like stopping to smell the roses, and you get no brownie points with me. I just find it irritating.
I've often said that my favorite U.S. president, in my lifetime, was Gerald Ford. Why? Because he wasn't so full of himself that he thought he should run for president, or even v.p. He was just an honest Congressman who fell into the job. I thought he did a fine job as president too -- when he remembered to duck.
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I'm saying in general, all situations could be different.
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Overachievers! 
I thought he did a fine job as president too -- when he remembered to duck. 
