I welcome success in my life.

Success is easier to want than to be comfortable inside. People who get the promotion often stop mentioning work at the table on a Friday, because two of the people there applied and did not get it.

It rearranges things. Who you eat lunch with. What you are allowed to complain about. Whether the old jokes still land.

Welcoming it means making room for the awkward parts as well as the good ones, which is a more grown-up sort of hospitality than simply hoping it turns up.