What is success? Is it obtaining a goal, or doing something that benefits everyone? Is it the ambition to cause pain or the determination to achieve love? Whatever it may be, success will always be personal. But what success isn't, is doing what you don't desire. By not doing what you desire, you are not being successful. Because how can you be successful if you aren't even doing what you want to do?
Dictionary.com defines success as “the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.” Meaning success is the result of a person's determination, and their motivation. Because without motivation a person would not want to be successful, and with out determination a person would not be able to obtain success. By not being able to obtain success, a person would not be able to attain what they desire.
Most people equate success with money.But is that really being successful? Just because you may have more wealth doesn't mean you are successful. It may mean that to some, but not everyone who has obtained wealth believes that. Such as Steve Jobs, who said “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.” Meaning that success should be measured in a way that matters to you personally, not what everyone says or believes because what you believe could be the opposite of what someone else believes.Also that you should do something that is meaningful to you or others but mainly to yourself. Even doing horrible acts can be called success to certain few, because that is what matters to them personally. The word success comes from the Latin root word successus, which simply means “the result or outcome, and the accomplishment of desired end.” Which is fairly similar but different in many ways from what the word means today. The word success has been altered throughout time to what it is generally meant today, the attainment of material things. Deepak Chopra once said that “Success is a journey, and it includes much more than material wealth which is only one component that makes this journey enjoyable”. Which means that obtaining material things isn't the only thing about being successful, but it is only a fraction of the joy success can bring you. And that to obtain success, it might take more time then anticipated but once that goal is reached then the joys are endless.
But what that journey is, is different for different individuals, because not everyone have the same goals.
Success can be both, good and bad. Good in the sense that what you do benefits the people and the environment around you, and bad in the sense that what you do harms you, or anything. But the journey that led to that desired end, that is what success is all about. Even though the consequence of peoples actions isn't always right, the way they reached that goal is. Because they put in the effort to reach their desired goal, even if their goal isn't what people would usually classify as success. It could be something that is straight up horrible, or it could be something that is more relatable to others. Basically meaning that it is the desired outcome of something attempted. The way to obtain success is by devoting your self, maybe your whole life, to what you desire. It is by dedication and hardwork can a person be successful. Otherwise it would be classified as being lucky in the sense that no effort was put in into becoming succesful and that whatever that occurred wasn't intentional. Because if it was intentional then it would classified as success, but since there was no desire in that outcome then what occurred wasn't what they wanted.
With that said, I wonder how success will be portrayed and in what ways will that success affect us and the things around us in the unknown future. But one thing is sure, the journey to become successful will always be the same.
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